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Report on MP Anar murder Aug 8

A Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday fixed August 8 as the next day for submitting the investigation report in Jhenaidah-4 constituency lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar abduction and murder case....

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Confronting NATO’s war summit in Washington

AFTER NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9 NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the US Capitol as they did in 1814, and the Germans are still meekly pretending that they don’t know who blew up...

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Preparing for a Middle East war

REPORTS from the Middle East these days have two things in common: All the parties wish to avoid a war, yet all the movement is towards one, centred in Lebanon...

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No such thing as a small nuclear war

THERE was a time when calls for a nuclear-free Europe rang across the continent. It began with the Stockholm Appeal of 1950, which opened with the powerful words ‘We demand the outlawing of atomic weapons as instruments of intimidation and mass murder of peoples’ and then deepened with the...

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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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US mired in cold war model from 1950s

THE Biden administration is in denial regarding the dangerous Cold War that currently exists between the United States, China, and Russia that qualifies as Cold War II. The current Cold War promises to be more dangerous, more costly, and more implacable than its predecessor, which dominated the 1950s and early 1960s...

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Two arrested from Khagrachhari over MP Anwarul murder: DB

Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday arrested two more suspects at a Kali temple in a remote hilly area of Khagrachari in connection with the murder of ruling Awami League lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar...

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Jahanara Imam’s death anniv today

Today is the 30th anniversary of the death of writer and political activist Jahanara Imam, who pioneered the campaign for the trial of 1971 war criminals...

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DB to go to Jhenaidah today

A team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch is scheduled to go to Jhenaidah today for recovering three mobile phones of ruling Awami League Jhenaidah district unit leader Qazi Kamal Ahmed Babu, who was arrested in connection with the murder of lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar...

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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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Ukraine war slams Europe rightward

SO HAS fascism come back to Europe or are Europeans simply sick of the Empire’s endless wars? The smart money’s on the latter, because what mostly unites the diverse right-wingers recently elected to the...

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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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Jhenaidah AL secy put on 8-day remand  

The ruling Awami League’s Jhenaidah district unit general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu has been shown arrested and was remanded in police custody in a case filed...

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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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Can the Gaza ceasefire work?

NINE months into Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, the UN Security Council has finally endorsed a ceasefire plan that promises to end hostilities in the occupied territory...

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Bail plea of Shimul, Tanvir scrapped

A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Monday scrapped pleas for bail by accused Syed Amanullah Aman alias Shimul Bhuiyan and Foysal Ali Saji alias Tanvir Bhuiyan in a case lodged over the abduction and murder of Awami League lawmaker of Jenaidah-4 Anwarul Azim Anar in Kolkata, India...