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Bangladesh students held for murder of anti-Islam blogger

March 2, 2013

DHAKA, March 2: Bangladesh police arrested five students of an elite private university on Saturday on charges of murdering an anti-Islamist blogger whose death triggered nationwide turmoil, AFP reported. The students allegedly confessed to hacking to death Ahmed Rajib Haider, 35, on February 15 after he helped organise protests against leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party […]

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North Korea’s nuclear test

February 14, 2013

It will take a while to know what exactly went on at the Punggye-ri test site. The official news agency, KCNA, said the bomb was smaller, lighter and more powerful than the previous two tested in October 2006 and May 2009. Whether that is true or not, the regime’s goal is surely to make a

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Envoy calls for transitional government in Syria

December 28, 2012

BEIRUT, Dec 28 (AP): Russia and the U.N called Thursday for the resuscitation of a peace initiative for Syria that never got off the ground when it was proposed months ago because both parties to the conflict rejected it. The plan, unveiled by world powers at an international conference in Geneva in June, called for

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Iran\’s sole woman minister sacked

December 27, 2012

TEHRAN, Dec 27: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sacked Health Minister Marizeh Vahid Dastjerdi, the sole woman in his cabinet, state television reported on Thursday. The minister had proposed price hikes for a number of medicines due to the plunge of the Iranian rial against the US dollar and Western sanctions imposed on the country

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Nearly four in 10 U.S. residents blame weather on "end times"

December 14, 2012

CHICAGO, Dec 13 (Reuters): Nearly four in 10 U.S. residents say the severity of recent natural disasters such as Superstorm Sandy is evidence the world is coming to an end, as predicted by the Bible, while more than six in 10 blame it on climate change, according to a poll released on Thursday. The survey

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BD: One killed during protests against 1971 war crime trials

December 4, 2012

DHAKA, Dec 4: Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired tear gas and arrested dozens of protesters as the nation’s largest Islamic party enforced a daylong strike that has shut schools and businesses across the country. The opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party called the strike to demand authorities halt trials of its top leaders on charges of crimes against

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Four Buddhist temples burnt down in Bangladesh

October 1, 2012

DHAKA, Sept 30: Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burnt at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said. Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox’s Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent

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Tajikistan road can open new vistas of development

May 12, 2012

By Inayatullah Aseer The Chitral-Garum Chashma-Eshkashim highway project is crucial for economic development of Pakistan and the whole region. After completion of the Lowari Tunnel mega project, there is no reason to delay this important project anymore. A road from Kabul to China through the Pamir Range was completed within just two years after being

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