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Trump, Harris hone attack lines

Donald Trump labeled vice president Kamala Harris a ‘crazy liberal,’ while she vowed to prevail over his ‘wild lies’ as both laid out presidential campaign attack lines Saturday with just 100 days left until election day...

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30 killed in Gaza school strike

An Israeli strike on a school killed 30 people on Saturday, after a days-long military operation further south left around 170 dead, according to emergency services...

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Expose perpetrators, bring them to justice: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said BNP, Jamaat and Shibir carried out acts of vandalism nationwide to undermine the country’s development and tarnish its image abroad.

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Judicial commission seeks info of July 5-16 violence

The judicial inquiry commission on Wednesday requested the people to provide information by August 6 about ‘violence, arson attacks, looting and criminal activities’ that took place across the country in between July 5-16 during the students’ quota reform movement...

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Killings and repression must stop

ON JUNE 5, a High Court bench declared illegal a government circular issued in 2018, which abolished the 30 per cent quota for the dependents of the freedom fighters. In protest, students from all institutions — schools to universities — started a non-violent movement, which was made violent by the attack on the protesters by the Chhatra League and the police...

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Attacks on quota protesters condemned

Several political parties on Monday condemned attacks on quota protesters allegedly by the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League at...

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Indian soldier killed in Manipur attack

A Central Reserve Police Force jawan was killed in a gun attack by suspected militants at Mongbung village in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Sunday morning, police said...

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Protests at attack on Miranzilla colony spread

Sweeper community members, different socio-political, religious and cultural organisations and rights groups on Saturday protested against recent attack on Miranzilla Harijan Sweeper Colony in Old Dhaka’s Bangshal area through protest rallies and processions, demanding exemplary punishment for those involved...

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Three women killed in UK crossbow attack 

British police were searching on Wednesday for a suspect who may have a crossbow after three women were killed in what police believe was a ‘targeted’ attack...

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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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String of Nigeria suicide attacks kill 18

At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities...

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21 killed in Niger attack

An armed group killed 20 troops and one civilian in jihadist-plagued western Niger on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, announcing three days of national mourning...

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Ukraine missile attack on Crimea kills three

A Ukrainian missile attack on Sunday on a city in the Russian-annexed Crimea peninsula killed three people, including two children, and wounded over 100, officials said...

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Efforts on to nab Tarique, 14 other convicts: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday told the Jatiya Sangsad that 15 convicts in the August 21 grenade attack case, including the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman, are absconding...

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Israeli attack on Rafah tent camp kills 45

Israel faced a wave of international condemnation Monday over a strike that Gaza officials said killed 45 people when it set off a fire that ripped through a tent city for displaced Palestinians...

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These new attacks on academic freedom may be just the beginning

DURING the wave of campus protests opposing the US-backed war on Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, students weren’t the only demonstrators to face arrest — supportive faculty members were also caught up in the crackdown...

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Ukraine warns of outages after attack on power plants

Ukraine on Wednesday warned of possible power shutdowns across the country after a ‘massive’ wave of Russian missiles and drones targeted the country’s battered energy system...

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Russian shelling kills two in Donetsk region

Two people were killed on Friday in a Russian attack on the city of Kurakhove, located in the eastern Donetsk region, which is bearing the brunt of the fighting between Kyiv and Moscow...

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Govt’s commitment to press freedom rings hollow

THE government’s commitment to protect press freedom rings hollow as attacks on journalists have continued and journalists are made to work in an environment of growing threat, fear and insecurity. Ain O Salish Kendra recorded 94 incidents of torture...

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Gunman kills six in attack on Afghan mosque

A gunman stormed a mosque in western Afghanistan and killed six people, a government spokesman said Tuesday, with local residents claiming the minority Shiite community had been targeted...