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Holey Artisan attack victims commemorated

Foreign envoys to Bangladesh, the ambassadors of Italy, the United States and Japan and the high commissioner of India among them, along with the Bangladesh foreign secretary paid tributes to the victims killed in the Holey Artisan attack in Gulshan in the capital eight years ago...

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First presidential debate disaster

IT WAS cruel. Sinister cruel. While Donald Trump was always going to relish the chance to be not only economical with the truth but simply inventive about it, Joe Biden, current commander in chief of the United States, leader of the self-described free world, seemed a vanishing shadow, longing for soft slippers and the fireplace with cocoa...

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Bangladesh remains in Tier 2 in US TIP report

The Government of Bangladesh does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but is making significant efforts to do so as the country remains in the ‘Tier 2’ category, according to the US Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report 2024 published on Monday...

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Travel bag exports to US rise by 18.42pc

Bangladesh’s travel goods exports to the United States saw a positive turnaround, achieving an 18.42 per cent year-on-year growth in January to April period of 2024...

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At the edge of apocalypse

BIBLICAL flooding, scorching heat, collapsing grid system, animals crumbling, waters rising, crops wilting, economy on the brink, and millions displaced...

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Make-believe politics

WE LIVE in a world of make-believe politics, a world where strings pulled in the interests of the super-rich are ever more visible....

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Using Ukraine Since 1948

The United States has for nearly 80 years seen Ukraine as the staging ground for its once covert and increasingly overt war with Russia...

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A journey through academia and beyond

SEVERAL years ago, I began to introspectively ask myself if my 35 years of national and international service had truly been successful. Initially, the answer seemed obvious — of course, I was successful. As a professor at various universities in the United States...

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US unveils sweeping sanctions on Russia

The United States announced a raft of sanctions on Wednesday aimed at constraining Moscow’s war in Ukraine while raising the stakes for foreign banks that still deal with Russia, ahead of G7 leaders’ talks this week...

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United States in Middle East

AFTER Iranian prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh (1951-53), was overthrown in a US-British coup, he stated: ‘I am aware that my fate must serve as an example in the future throughout the Middle East in breaking the chains of slavery and servitude to colonial interests.’..

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How long for Assange to win right to appeal

SO JULIAN Assange won his right to appeal extradition to the United States from England. How long before that next legal step takes place? Months, a year? Who knows? You can bet neither Joe ‘Only Pardons for Them That Don’t Need ‘Em’ Biden nor Donald ‘Maybe a Pardon’ Trump is keeping track...

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NATO’s Pacific war games

AS THE United States increases its military confrontation with China through new military bases on Guam and the Philippines and more land, sea and air exercises with Asia-Pacific countries, the world’s largest naval war exercises will be held in the mid-Pacific from June 26 to August 2 and NATO...