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Hasina, aides to be tried at ICT

The interim government has decided to hold trials for the ‘mass killing’ committed during the Student Movement Against Discrimination between July 1 and August 5 under the International Crimes Tribunal Act...

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Venezuela: attempted coup by any other name

ONCE again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organised crime and a cyber-attack...

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Lawyer, journalist sued over talk-show

Shyamoli Nasreen Chowdhury, the widow of martyred physician and freedom fighter Alim Chowdhury, filed a contempt petition with the Appellate Division on Wednesday seeking action against lawyer Mohammed Mohsen Rashid and journalist Kanak Sarwar for allegedly scandalising the judiciary of Bangladesh by holding a talk-show...

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British-Israeli soldiers in war-crimes zone

BRITISH nationals are serving in some of Israel’s ‘craziest’ combat units in Gaza where they view Palestinian fighters as ‘rats’ and ‘animals’...

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Budget, economic crimes and why we don’t care

THIS has been a good few months for sensational media items and Bangladesh appears to be choking with such content which readers love. First, there was the murder and mince-meating of a member of parliament in a Kolkata apartment possibly over a fallout of smuggling and other deals gone sour and over the share of profits, etc...

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The untold ICC story

Even the most optimistic of political analysts did not expect that the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor would be uttering these words:..

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Israel’s heinous war crime

In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity, and emboldened by US unconditional military and diplomatic support..

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Israel’s crimes far worse than Hamas’s

THERE is one thing we should all be able to agree with Benjamin Netanyahu on: Any comparison between Israel’s war crimes and those of Hamas is, as the Israeli prime minister put it, ‘absurd and false’ and a ‘distortion of reality.’...

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Gaza battles flare

Israeli forces battled Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday after prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily dismissed a bid for an international arrest warrant against him on war crimes charges in the Palestinian territory...

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Jama’atul Ansar supplies arms for KNF’s training: CTTC

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday said that the banned militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya supplied arms and ammunition for the training of the ethnic armed group Kuki-Chin National Front...

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Govt, ACC must investigate people Dubai Unlocked speaks of

THE findings of an investigation of the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and the Norwegian news site E24 that 532 Bangladeshis own real estate in Dubai could be a ground for Bangladesh authorities to carry forward the investigation and act accordingly...

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Two members of fake documents ring held

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two people on charge of embezzling money through trading confidential information of National Identity Card, birth registration certificate and Covid vaccination card...

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Romania indicts ex-president again over 1990 crackdown

Romanian prosecutors Friday issued a fresh indictment against former president Ion Iliescu for crimes against humanity in a deadly 1990 crackdown on protesters, the latest of several proceedings against him...