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Protesters attacked on way back from rally

Three rights and student activists who addressed a rally in Kawkhali upazila town in Rangamati demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma were attacked allegedly by a group of unidentified Bengali people at Betchari under the upazila Thursday afternoon...

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For whom the drones buzz

THOSE drone attacks on five Russian airfields last week were nothing if not daring. No final report from Moscow yet, but three figures’ worth of Ukrainian drones launched from the backs of trucks destroyed some number of strategic bombers in the Russian fleet...

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Russian strikes in Kyiv, Odesa kill three

Russia launched fresh drone and missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and port city of Odesa early on Tuesday, killing three people and hitting a maternity hospital, Ukrainian officials said...

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Russia deliberately targeting civilians: Zelensky

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday accused Russia of ‘deliberately’ targeting civilians in a rocket attack on the city of Sumy, a day after officials from the two countries met for fresh peace talks...

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Left ogrs condemn attacks on, threats to protesters

Left student organisations on Sunday condemned recent attacks on and threats to left student leaders and activists during demonstrations in Rajshahi and Chattogram rejecting the Supreme Court’s May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges...

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44 killed in Nigeria attacks

At least 44 people have been killed in separate attacks in recent days in central Nigeria, a local government official said Tuesday, raising the toll in the latest raids in a region where herders and farmers often clash...

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Russia strikes Kyiv amid POW exchange with Ukraine

A massive Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv Saturday wounded at least 15 people, even as Russia and Ukraine continued the biggest prisoner swap since the start of Moscow’s invasion...

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Work abstention by pry, MPO teachers observed sporadically

The separate countrywide half-day work abstention programme by assistant teachers of the government primary schools and teachers of secondary-level schools under the monthly pay order system was observed sporadically on Thursday demanding pay hike and protesting at attacks on teachers...

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Myanmar ex-general killed in attack

A retired Myanmar general who formerly served as ambassador to Cambodia was shot dead on Thursday, two military sources said, in an attack claimed by anti-coup fighters...

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Six journalists hurt in attack on DRU

A case was filed on Thursday over an attack carried out allegedly by a collaborator of the Awami League and his supporters on the premises of Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night...

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National University VC assaulted

National University vice-chancellor Professor ASM Amanullah came under physical attack on the campus on Wednesday allegedly by a group of students who were demonstrating, demanding auto-pass at the time...

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Cyberattack costs Marks & Spencer £300m

British clothes-to-food retailer Marks and Spencer on Wednesday said a cyberattack disrupting its online service is set to last through to July and hit group profit by around £300 million ($404 million)...

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2 BGB members hurt in attack by drug peddlers

At least two members of the Border Guard Bangladesh were injured in an attack allegedly by suspected drug dealers at the Nazir Gomani border under Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat early Sunday...

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Israeli air strikes kill 50 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Sunday killed at least 50 people, more than half of them children, a day after Israel announced an expanded military campaign in the besieged territory.

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Women’s equal rights must be upheld at all costs

WOMEN from all walks of life gathered on May 16 in a solidarity march demanding equality, dignity and justice at a time when democratic transformation of the state and society is said to be the national priority. The rally was organised in the context of recurring attacks on women in public places, especially after the targeted attack on members of the women’s affairs reforms...

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India kills three in Kashmir

Three suspected rebels were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday in a gun battle with soldiers, the army said, the first since an attack on tourists last month brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war...

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12 injured as auto-rickshaw drivers attack NCC building

Twelve people, including some officials of Narayanganj City Corporation, were injured in an attack by the unauthorised auto-rickshaw drivers at the corporation’s building in Narayanganj on Monday...

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Ukraine, Russia trade aerial attacks

Russia and Ukraine traded a barrage of drone strikes overnight on Wednesday, in attacks that killed two in Kyiv and forced Moscow to shut major airports hours before a swathe of foreign leaders was to arrive...

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10 of Masood Azhar’s family killed in Operation Sindoor

Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Maulana Masood Azhar has claimed that 10 members of his family and four of his aides were killed in India’s targeted airstrikes under Operation Sindoor to avenge the Pahalgam terror attack, news agency PTI reported, says NDTV...

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Taiyeb warns about massive cyber attack ahead polls

Chief adviser’s special assistant to the ICT ministry Faiz Ahmad Taiyeb on Sunday warned about massive cyber attacks on the digital infrastructures and propagation of rumours and misinformation ahead of the national election...

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SC defers hearing on govt petition for appeal against Tarique acquittal

The Appellate Division on Sunday deferred until tomorrow the hearing on a government petition for permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that acquitted acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman and 48 others in the two August 21 grenade attack cases...

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Kashmir and Indus river

INDIA’S Hindutva president, Narendra Modi, has used the Kashmir terrorism incident to abrogate the 1960s Indus Waters Treaty — a longstanding goal of Modi. The Indian version of the ‘terrorist attack,’ most of whose victims were Muslim, has largely been accepted by western governments without evidence...

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Missile hits Israel airport area in Huthi-claimed attack

A missile struck inside the perimeter of Israel’s main airport on Sunday, wounding six people, halting flights and gouging a wide crater, in an attack claimed by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels...

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India plans strike after Kashmir attack: Pakistan

Pakistan said on Wednesday it had ‘credible intelligence’ that India was planning an imminent military strike and vowed to retaliate, as worries of spiralling conflict grew over a deadly attack in Kashmir...

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Human rights attacks accelerated by Trump second term: Amnesty

The global system of law and human rights is under threat from a ‘multiplicity of assaults’ which have accelerated since US president Donald Trump’s return to power, Amnesty International said on Tuesday in its annual report...