‘ব্যাটন কাণ্ড’ থেকে মুক্তি, মিক্সড রিলেতে লড়বে যুক্তরাষ্ট্র

ব্যাটন বদলের সময় তালগোল পাকিয়ে ডিসকোয়ালিফাইড হওয়া যুক্তরাষ্ট্র ও ডমিনিক রিপাবলিক অবশেষে মুক্তি পেয়েছে। দুটি দলই টোকিও অলিম্পিকসের ৪০০ মিটার রিলের পদকের লড়াইয়ে অংশ নিবে।

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আরও দুই ইভেন্ট থেকে সরে দাঁড়ালেন বাইলস

দলীয় ইভেন্টে হতাশাজনক পারফরম্যান্সের পর ব্যক্তিগত অল-অ্যারাউন্ড ইভেন্ট থেকে সরে দাঁড়িয়েছিলেন। এবার টোকিও অলিম্পিকসের ভল্ট ও আনইভেন বারস ইভেন্ট থেকেও সরে দাঁড়ালেন সিমোন বাইলস।

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বিশ্বরেকর্ড গড়ে মিশ্র রিলের সোনা গ্রেট ব্রিটেনের

চীনকে হারিয়ে সাঁতারের ১০০ মিটার মিশ্র রিলেতে সেরা হয়েছে গ্রেট ব্রিটেন। সোনা জয়ের সঙ্গে এ ইভেন্টে চীনের গড়া আগের বিশ্বরেকর্ডও ভেঙেছে তারা।

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দ্বিতীয় সোনার হাসি ম্যাককিউয়েনের

১০০ মিটার ব্যাকস্ট্রোকের মতো ঝড় তোলা হলো না। গড়া হলো না রেকর্ডও। তবে ঠিকই ২০০ মিটার ব্যাকস্ট্রোকে বাজিমাত করলেন কেলি ম্যাককিউয়েন। টোকিও অলিম্পিকসে পেলেন দ্বিতীয় সোনা জয়ের স্বাদ।

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সোনা জিতে অনন্য কীর্তি লেডেকির

লন্ডন, রিও দে জেনেইরো ঘুরে টোকিও অলিম্পকস। মেয়েদের ৮০০ মিটার ফ্রিস্টাইল সাঁতার মানেই যেন কেটি লেডেকির সাফল্যের গল্প। অসাধারণ ধারাবাহিকতায় এবার ইতিহাসে ঠাঁই পেয়ে গেলেন তিনি। প্রথম মহিলা সাঁতারু হিসেবে এ ইভেন্টে টানা তিন অলিম্পিকে মুকুট জিতলেন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের এই সাঁতারু।

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এবার বিশ্বরেকর্ড গড়ে ড্রেসেলের সোনা

আগের দিন হিটে গড়েছিলেন অলিম্পিক রেকর্ড। ফাইনালে নিজেকে ছাড়িয়ে গড়লেন বিশ্ব রেকর্ড। টোকিওর সুইমিং পুলে আবারও ঝড় তুলে ১০০ মিটার বাটারফ্লাইয়ে সোনা জিতলেন কেলেব ড্রেসেল।

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Depiction of Macron as Hitler tests France's tolerance for satire

Michel-Ange Flori, towner of a French street advertising business, decided to use some of his billboards for what he called an exercise in political satire: posting a picture showing President Emmanuel Macron dressed like Adolf Hitler.

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Female sprinters take the spotlight at Tokyo’s ‘superfast’ track

For years, the 100-metre dash was synonymous with one stupendously fast human: Usain Bolt, who won three straight Olympic titles before he retired in 2017. He has since occupied his time with dabbling in professional soccer, selling cars, traveling the world as a bon vivant and becoming a new father.

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Four killed as wildfires sweep Turkey, villages evacuated

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast has risen to four and firefighters were battling blazes for a third day on Friday after the evacuation of dozens of villages and some hotels.

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Haiti police say former Supreme Court judge suspect in president's killing

Haitian police on Friday outlined fresh accusations against a former Supreme Court judge over her links to the assassination of President Jovenel Moise earlier this month, saying she had met with some Colombian mercenaries accused of killing him.

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India's Serum Institute ties up with industry in push to vaccinate rural areas

The Serum Institute of India (SII) said on Friday it had partnered with an industry body to expand the reach of COVID-19 shots in India's countryside as it had "plenty of supply" of the AstraZeneca drug.

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UN compound attacked in western Afghanistan, at least one guard killed

"Anti-government elements" in Afghanistan attacked the main UN compound in the capital of the western province of Herat on Friday and at least one security guard was killed, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said.

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COVID-19 cases surge in Sydney, police cordon off downtown to prevent rally

New South Wales, Australia's most populous state, reported 210 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, as police cordoned off downtown Sydney with multiple checkpoints to prevent a planned anti-lockdown protest.

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'Like back in Syria': migrant volunteers clear up flood-hit Germany

Syrian volunteers have rushed to towns hit by Germany's most devastating floods in 60 years to clean them up and renovate homes, drawing on their experience with catastrophes in their homeland to help the country that took them in.

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'This is like a nightmare': Thousands displaced as floods hit Bangladesh Rohingya camps

Heavy monsoon rains triggered landslides and flash floods in refugee camps displacing thousands of Rohingya Muslims in southeastern Bangladesh this week, UN and other officials said on Friday, with further heavy rainfall expected.

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Super League trio to carry on with breakaway project after court decision

Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus said on Friday they will continue with plans for a European Super League after a court ruled that governing body UEFA terminate disciplinary proceedings against founding members of the breakaway project.

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England's Stokes to take 'indefinite break' for mental wellbeing, injury recovery

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has taken an indefinite break from all cricket with immediate effect to prioritise his mental wellbeing and continue his recovery from an injury to his left index finger, the country's cricket board (ECB) said on Friday.

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Djokovic's Golden Slam dreams dashed, Zverev faces Khachanov in final

Novak Djokovic's bid to become the first man to complete the Golden Slam lay in tatters on Friday after he was toppled by Germany's Alexander Zverev in the singles semi-finals at the Tokyo Games.

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Bangladesh resumes crab exports to China after 9-month pandemic hiatus

Bangladesh has restarted the export of crabs to China, its biggest market, after a pause of nine months amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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'War has changed', CDC says, calling for new response to Delta variant

The "war has changed" against COVID-19 because of the highly contagious Delta variant, the US Centers for Disease Control said, proposing a clearer message, mandatory vaccines for health workers and a return to universal masking.

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Trump election pressure memo disclosed; lawmakers to get his taxes

Former President Donald Trump suffered a pair of setbacks on Friday when the Justice Department cleared the way for the release of his tax records and also disclosed a memo showing he urged top officials to falsely claim his election defeat was "corrupt."

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An outbreak of the Delta variant tests China’s zero-tolerance approach

For more than a year, Chinese officials have beat back the coronavirus with a tried formula: strict lockdowns at the sites of outbreaks, lengthy quarantines for travellers and citywide testing when new cases appear.

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Rains to let up as low over Bay turns into land depression

After a spell of heavy downpours, the weather in Bangladesh is likely to clear up as the well-marked low over the Bay of Bengal has intensified into a land depression and moved towards West Bengal.

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At swimming, a world record, three more US medals and doping accusations

American dominance in the Olympic pool is an old story at this point, a snowball forever rolling downhill, even if the pitch of the slope varies slightly from year to year.

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Israeli forces kill Palestinian during clashes in West Bank

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man in clashes that erupted on Thursday during the funeral of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli soldiers a day earlier, the Palestinian health ministry said.

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বিশ্বরেকর্ড গড়ে সোনা পেলেন শুনমাকের

দিন তিনেক আগে এক ইভেন্টের হিটে অলিম্পিক রেকর্ড গড়েও মূল লড়াইয়ে প্রাপ্তি ছিল রুপা। সেই হতাশা পেছনে ফেলে এবার অন্য ইভেন্টে নিজেকে নতুন উচ্চতায় তুলে নিলেন তাতিয়ানা শুনমাকের। টোকিওর নীল জলে সোনালি আভা তো ছড়ালেনই, দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকার এই সাঁতারু গড়লেন বিশ্বরেকর্ডও।

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India reports most new COVID cases in three weeks

India reported 44,230 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, the most in three weeks, the latest evidence of a worrying trend of rising cases that has forced one state to lock down amid fears of another wave of infections.

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Behind the masks, a mystery: How often do the vaccinated spread the virus?

The recommendation that vaccinated people in some parts of the country dust off their masks was based largely on one troublesome finding, according to Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

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As COVID cases hit record high in Tokyo, can the Olympics bubble hold?

Outside the Tokyo Olympics bubble, the COVID-19 situation in Japan has never been worse. Both the city and the country reported record numbers of new infections Thursday as the delta variant outpaced vaccinations, straining the health care system.

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CDC internal report calls Delta variant as contagious as Chickenpox

The Delta variant is much more contagious, more likely to break through protections afforded by the vaccines and may cause more severe disease than all other known versions of the virus, according to an internal presentation circulated within the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Helena Jahangir's Joyjatra TV doesn't have valid documents to operate: RAB

The Rapid Action has conducted a late-night raid on the offices of Joyjatra IP TV and Joyjatra Foundation linked to Helena Jahangir after detaining the businesswoman, who was recently sacked from a subcommittee of the ruling Awami League.

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Pet food shortages leave owners on the hunt for kibble and cat treats

Black short-haired kitty Astra, one of millions of pets acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, had to go without salmon-flavoured Whiskas treats that were sold out at stores in New Orleans this month.

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Spanish judge seeks tax fraud trial for pop singer Shakira

A Spanish judge has seen "sufficient evidence" for Colombian singer Shakira to face trial for tax fraud, a court document released on Thursday said.

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International Space Station thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module -NASA

The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said.

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Death toll from German industrial park explosion rises to five

Three more people were found dead after Tuesday's explosion at an industrial park in western Germany, bringing the death toll from the blast to five, police and prosecutors said on Thursday.

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Jared Kushner to leave politics, launch investment firm

Jared Kushner, a top adviser to former President Donald Trump, plans to launch an investment firm in coming months, a move that will take him away from politics for the foreseeable future, sources familiar with the plan said on Wednesday.

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Biden pushes cash reward to get vaccinated, new rules for federal workers

President Joe Biden on Thursday urged local governments to pay people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, and set new rules requiring federal workers to provide proof of vaccination or face regular testing, mask mandates and travel restrictions.

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Sydney under strict new lockdown rules as cases soar

Millions in Sydney began their harshest lockdown since the pandemic began on Friday as COVID-19 cases spiked to record levels in Australia's largest city with state and national leaders set to meet to discuss the country's reopening plans.

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Editors’ Council wants to hear from Naem Nizam about his resignation

The Editors’ Council wants to hear straight from Naem Nizam why he resigned from the organisation of editors of a fraction of the newspapers in Bangladesh.

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How Bangladesh is planning to overhaul railway infrastructure to boost regional trade

In a bid to boost regional trade, the government is emphasising railway communication infrastructure by taking up a long-term project to upgrade all rail lines in Bangladesh to dual gauge.

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Delta variant forces Bangladesh to extend shutdown of schools, colleges to Aug 31

High schools and colleges across Bangladesh will remain closed to students in August with deadly COVID-19 cases soaring amid the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus.

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UK warns COVID-19 could infect half Myanmar in next two weeks

Britain's UN ambassador warned on Thursday that half of Myanmar's 54 million people could be infected with COVID-19 in the next two weeks as Myanmar's envoy called for UN monitors to ensure an effective delivery of vaccines.

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Bangladesh receives another shipment of China's Sinopharm vaccine

Bangladesh's COVID-19 vaccine stocks have been replenished further with the arrival of another shipment from China ahead of the expansion of the immunisation campaign to villages and young people.

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Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over 'Black Widow' streaming release: WSJ

Scarlett Johansson, star of the latest Marvel movie "Black Widow", has filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Co alleging her contract was breached by the company, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

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Joey Jordison, former Slipknot drummer, dies at 46

Joey Jordison, the founding drummer for the ghoulishly theatrical metal band Slipknot, who co-wrote many of the group’s best-known songs and often performed wearing a crown of thorns and a silver mask streaked with black paint, died on Monday. He was 46.

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Caeleb Dressel wins men’s 100-metre freestyle, and his first individual medal

Caeleb Dressel, the American swimmer, won his first Olympic gold medal for an individual race Thursday, setting an Olympic record of 47.02 seconds in the 100-metre freestyle and beating out Kyle Chalmers of Australia by six-hundredths of a second.

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Tokyo Games officials bet on technology to make up for lack of fans

The atmosphere at Olympics venues in Tokyo is eerie as the screams, shouts and cries of joy from athletes bounce off empty seats, with spectators banned from events.

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Google mandates vaccines for employees

Google said Wednesday that it would require employees who returned to the company’s offices to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. It also said it would push back its official return-to-office date to mid-October from September, joining a host of other companies whose plans have been scrambled in recent days by the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.

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হিটে রেকর্ড রোমানচুকের, সোনা জিতলেন ফিঙ্ক

হিটে মিখাইলো রোমানচুকের ছায়ায় ঢাকা পড়েছিলেন রবার্ট ফিঙ্ক। কিন্তু পদকের লড়াইয়ে ঠিকই আলোয় এলেন যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের এই সাঁতারু। ছেলেদের ৮০০ মিটার ফ্রিস্টাইলে তিনিই জিতে নিলেন সোনা।

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Isolated Myanmar calls for international help as COVID cases surge

Myanmar's military ruler is looking for greater cooperation with the international community to contain the coronavirus, state media reported on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian country struggles with a surging wave of infections.

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Italian regulator endorses Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for teens

Italian regulators approved the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine for children 12-17 years old, making it the second shot endorsed for adolescents, alongside that of Pfizer.

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Chanu's Tokyo silver earns her free movies, pizza for life

Winning an Olympic medal is reward enough for any athlete, but Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu's silver at the Tokyo Games has earned her the added bonus of a lifetime's supply of free pizza and movie tickets.

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China starts blocking paid after-school tutoring by public-school teachers

China's Ministry of Education said on Wednesday that it had begun implementing a campaign to stop paid after-school tutoring services provided by teachers working for public primary and middle schools.

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টোকিও অলিম্পিকস: আশা জাগিয়ে হেরে গেলেন দিয়া

প্রথম সেটে কষ্টের জয় দিয়ে শুরুর পর দ্বিতীয় সেটে পা হড়কাল দিয়া সিদ্দিকীর। পরে আবারও ঘুরে দাঁড়িয়ে শেষ ষোলোয় ওঠার দারুণ আশাও জাগালেন তিনি। কিন্তু শেষ পর্যন্ত টোকিও অলিম্পিকসের রিকার্ভ মহিলা এককের প্রথম রাউন্ড থেকে ছিটকে গেলেন বাংলাদেশের এই আর্চার।

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Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian boy in West Bank

Israeli troops shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy who was riding in a car with his father in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials said.

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Houston man pleads guilty in scheme to sell $317m bogus masks to Australian state

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to involvement in a scheme to fraudulently sell 50 million N95 respirator masks he did not have for $317.6 million to the government of New South Wales in Australia, US prosecutors said.

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Majority in India's big states with COVID-19 antibodies

More than 70 percent of people in eight of India's large states are estimated to have COVID-19 antibodies, a government survey showed on Wednesday, suggesting that a second surge in infections affected many more people than the reported figures.

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Pentagon chief to nudge ties with Vietnam as human rights concerns linger

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will on Thursday look to nudge forward security ties with Vietnam that have been slowly deepening as both countries watch China's activities in the South China Sea with growing alarm.

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China's new ambassador arrives in US with words of optimism

China's new ambassador to Washington, Qin Gang, on Wednesday wished the United States victory against COVID-19 and said great potential awaited bilateral relations, striking an optimistic tone as he arrived at his new post amid deeply strained ties.

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50 years ago, NASA put a car on the moon

David R Scott was not about to pass by an interesting rock without stopping. It was July 31, 1971, and he and James B Irwin, his fellow Apollo 15 astronaut, were the first people to drive on the moon. After a six-hour inaugural jaunt in the new lunar rover, the two were heading back to their lander, the Falcon, when Scott made an unscheduled pit stop.

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Poachers prowl into Sundarbans for tigers as smugglers make lucrative offers

Tigers getting killed by mobs after encounters with humans have dropped significantly in the Sundarban islands, but poachers continue to hunt the endangered species for lucrative offers made by smugglers.

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Bangladesh strengthens COVID bio-bubble for home series against Australia

Bangladesh Cricket Board says it has the COVID bio-bubble more robust for the Twenty20 home series against Australia.

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Bangladesh sees 1,000 COVID deaths in four days, 10,000 in three and a half months

It took Bangladesh thirteen and a half months to record the first 10,000 deaths from COVID-19, but the next 10,000 fatalities from the disease came in only three and a half months.

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Legal wrangles hold up US vaccine donations to India

Two months after India dropped local-trial rules for COVID-19 vaccines approved by developed countries, not a single dose has arrived as New Delhi dithers over legal protection sought by companies like Pfizer and Moderna.

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Bangladesh approves BUET-developed cheap ventilator, Oxyjet, for limited use

The government has approved the production and use of a cheap ventilator innovated by the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology or BUET on a limited scale to tackle the requirement for additional oxygen for COVID-19 patients.

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Citing new data, Pfizer outlines case for booster shots

Pfizer offered new evidence on Wednesday in support of booster shots of its potent vaccine, reporting that the vaccine’s power wanes slightly over time but may be improved with a third dose.

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Shikho, a Bangladeshi startup, raises $1.3m in funds to expand access to education

Shikho, an education technology company, has announced the completion of a $1.3 million seed round of financing, the largest fund raised by a Bangladeshi edtech startup.

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Regions near Olympic host Tokyo to seek COVID-19 emergency steps

Governors of three prefectures near Olympics host Tokyo are likely to ask the government to declare states of emergency for their regions, media said on Wednesday after COVID-19 infections spiked to a record high in the Japanese capital.

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Canada border guards vote to strike, days ahead of reopening to US tourists

Canadian border guards and customs officials voted on Tuesday to go on strike just days before fully vaccinated US citizens and permanent residents will be allowed into Canada, unions representing the workers said, a move that could potentially cause disruptions and hurt businesses emerging out of the pandemic-driven economic downturn.

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Blinken starts India meetings with address to civil society group

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet his Indian counterpart and other officials on Wednesday before heading to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the China rivals seek to deepen their cooperation and iron out differences.

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Five children of a family die in Cox’s Bazar landslides

Five children belonging to the same family have died in their sleep after landslides caused by heavy rainfall swept away their home in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf Upazila.

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The pandemic hurt these students the most

How much did the pandemic affect students?

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EU says it is on track for 70 percent vaccination target by end summer

The European Union is on course to hit a target of fully vaccinating at least 70% of the adult population by the end of summer given that the percentage of those 18 and over have now received a first dose, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

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'No safety nets': debts weigh on grieving Indian families

It's been over a month since his mother died, but Vishal Meghwal can still hear her struggling to breathe as he desperately messaged friends to lend him money for the drugs she needed.

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Kuwait bans unvaccinated citizens from travelling abroad

Kuwait on Tuesday said only citizens who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus will be allowed to travel abroad starting on Aug 1.

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Foreign journalists harassed covering China floods, correspondents' club says

Journalists from several media outlets covering recent floods in China were harassed online and by local residents, with staff from the BBC and Los Angeles Times receiving death threats, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (FCCC).

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Israeli troops kill Palestinian in West Bank, officials say

An Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, and the army said he had approached troops with an iron bar in his hand.

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Tunisian Islamists move to ease tensions, unions demand roadmap

Tunisia's leading Islamist party moved on Tuesday to ease the country's political crisis, calling for dialogue and urging supporters not to protest after accusing President Kais Saied of launching a coup.

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US concern over China nukes buildup after new silos report

The Pentagon and Republican congressmen on Tuesday aired fresh concerns about China's build-up of its nuclear forces after a new report saying Beijing was building 110 more missile silos.

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CMCH files general diary suspecting Surokkha COVID vaccine registration platform is hacked

Chattogram Medical College Hospital has filed a general diary with the police on suspicion that the Surokkha COVID-19 vaccine registration platform has been hacked.

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Government to appoint 2,000 more doctors from 42nd BCS amid pandemic

The government is going to appoint 2,000 more doctors from the 42nd BCS on an emergency basis to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

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Jamuna Group to invest Tk 10bn in troubled e-commerce firm Evaly

Jamuna Group is investing Tk 10 billion in Evaly at a time when the e-commerce firm is making headlines for delivery delays and being probed for alleged embezzlement and money-laundering.

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Man United agree deal to sign Real centre back Varane

Manchester United have agreed a deal in principle to sign France centre back Raphael Varane from La Liga side Real Madrid, the Premier League club said on Tuesday.

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‘They have my sister’: as Uyghurs speak out, China targets their families

She was a gifted agricultural scientist educated at prestigious universities in Shanghai and Tokyo. She said she wanted to help farmers in poor areas, like her hometown in Xinjiang, in western China. But because of her uncle’s activism for China’s oppressed Muslim Uyghurs, her family and friends said, the Chinese state made her a security target.

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রিয়াল ছেড়ে ম্যানচেস্টার ইউনাইটেডে যাচ্ছেন ভারানে

রিয়াল মাদ্রিদে রাফাযেল ভারানের এক দশকের পথচলা শেষ হচ্ছে। তাকে দলে টানতে স্প্যানিশ ক্লাবটির সঙ্গে সমঝোতায় পৌঁছেছে ম্যানচেস্টার ইউনাইটেড।

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Blast in German industrial park kills two, several missing

An explosion in a German industrial park on Tuesday killed at least two people and injured 31, setting off a fierce blaze that sent a pall of smoke over the western city of Leverkusen. Several people were still missing.

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BSMMU dismisses ‘disinformation’ that man got three COVID shots in a day

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has swatted away as “disinformation” peddled in a report that claimed a man was given three doses of the coronavirus vaccine in its inoculation centre in a day.

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Hasina urges citizens to banish fears about COVID-19 testing, vaccination

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called on the citizens to not pay attention to anything that might create confusion about coronavirus vaccination or testing of samples.

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In Iraq, going viral can bring fame, and the threat of violence

When Ali Adil, upset over another electricity outage during a sweltering summer, stomped up the stairs to the roof of his family’s home and recorded a video appealing to President Biden for help, the teenager did not expect a response.

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US will not lift travel restrictions, citing Delta variant, White House says

The United States will not lift any existing travel restrictions "at this point" due to concerns over the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant and the rising number of US coronavirus cases, the White House confirmed on Monday.

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India ready to engage with Blinken on human rights, officials say

India is proud of its pluralistic traditions and happy to discuss the issue with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit beginning on Tuesday, foreign ministry sources said after Washington said he planned to raise New Delhi's human rights record.

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টোকিওতে দ্বিতীয় রাউন্ডে থামল রোমানের পথচলা

প্রথম রাউন্ডের মতো দ্বিতীয় রাউন্ডেও থাকল উত্থান-পতনের দোলাচল। প্রথম দফায় সেই উত্তাল ঢেউ পার হয়ে ঠিকানায় পৌঁছলেন রোমান সানা। কিন্তু দ্বিতীয় দফায় পারলেন না উতরাতে। টোকিও অলিম্পিকসের রিকার্ভ পুরুষ এককের শেষ ষোলোতেই পথচলা থামল বাংলাদেশের এই তারকা আর্চারের।

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US, China positions ossify at entrenched Tianjin talks

With no indication of a US-China leaders' summit in the works, nor any outcomes announced from high-level diplomatic talks on Monday, relations between Beijing and Washington appear to be at a standstill as both sides insist the other must make concessions for ties to improve.

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Record-smashing heat extremes may become much more likely with climate change

Cyprus. Cuba. Turkey. Canada. Northern Ireland. Antarctica. All recorded their hottest-ever temperatures in the last two years, and according to a new study, more such extremes are coming.

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Lockdown casts pall on apparel industry amid 'peak season' for exports

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been keenly felt by nearly all industries, none more so than Bangladesh's key forex-fetching readymade garment sector as orders from big fashion houses dried up amid waning global demand.

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Olympic organisers shuffle schedule as a typhoon approaches

The Summer Olympics have already been hampered by a pandemic and sweltering heat. On Tuesday, athletes and organisers also had to deal with strong winds and heavy rain, with a typhoon expected to make landfall north of Tokyo in the afternoon.

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বিশ্বরেকর্ডের পর এবার অলিম্পিক রেকর্ড ম্যাককিউয়েনের

অ্যাডিলেইডের পর টোকিওর নীল জলেও ঝড় তুললেন কেলি ম্যাককিউয়েন। অলিম্পিক রেকর্ড গড়ে অস্ট্রেলিয়ার এই সাঁতারু চুমু আঁকলেন ১০০ মিটার ব্যাকস্ট্রোকের সোনার পদকে।

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Bezos offers NASA $2bn in exchange for moon mission contract

Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the US space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the moon.

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Pakistan PM Khan's ruling party wins Kashmir regional election

The ruling party of Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has won a majority of seats in Pakistan-administered Kashmir's regional assembly, the head of the election commission announced on Monday.

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Facebook sets up new team to work on the 'metaverse'

Facebook is creating a product team to work on the "metaverse," a digital world where people can move between different devices and communicate in a virtual environment, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday.

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New York's $200 french fries offer 'escape' from reality

The Federal Reserve chair, always on the look-out for signs of inflation, might want to drop by Manhattan's Upper East Side, where a $200 plate of french fries stretches the definition of haute cuisine.

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Mixed AstraZeneca-Pfizer shot boosts COVID antibody level

A mixed vaccination of first AstraZeneca and then a Pfizer COVID-19 shot boosted neutralising antibody levels by six times compared with two AstraZeneca doses, a study from South Korea showed.

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As China boomed, it didn’t take climate change into account. Now it must

China’s breakneck growth over the last four decades erected soaring cities where there had been hamlets and farmland. The cities lured factories, and the factories lured workers. The boom lifted hundreds of millions of people out of the poverty and rural hardship they once faced.

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At least 57 migrants die in shipwreck off Libyan coast: UN

At least 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the central Mediterranean, the UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said. "According to survivors brought to shore by fishermen and the coast guard, at least 20 women and two children were among those who drowned," IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli said in a tweet.

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Biden, Kadhimi seal agreement to end US combat mission in Iraq

US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday sealed an agreement formally ending the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of 2021, more than 18 years after US troops were sent to the country.

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Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna expand studies of children 5 to 11

At the urging of federal regulators, two coronavirus vaccine makers are expanding the size of their studies in children ages 5 to 11 — a precautionary measure designed to detect rare side effects including heart inflammation problems that turned up in vaccinated people younger than 30.

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Bangabandhu’s first grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy turns 50

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s first grandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy has turned 50.

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After grim records, experts see Bangladesh slipping deeper into COVID crisis

After Bangladesh reported single-day records in both deaths from COVID-19 and infections, public health experts worry that it may plunge even deeper into the crisis.

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Bangladesh fails to start trying deadly 2016 Kalyanpur anti-terror raid

It took two years for the investigator to press charges in court in a case over the deadly anti-militant raid on a house in Dhaka’s Kalayanpur. Three more years have gone by, but the court has not begun the trial.

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Six police, one civilian killed in clashes between two Indian states

At least seven people, including six police officers, were killed and more than 70 hurt on Monday in clashes between two Indian states, a senior politician said, as a weeks-long territorial dispute in the country's northeast turned deadly.

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রিওর মুকুট টোকিওতে হারালেন লেডেকি

রিও দে জেনেইরোতে সোনার পদকে চুমু একেঁছিলেন অলিম্পিকের রেকর্ড গড়ে। কিন্তু টোকিও অলিম্পিকসে পারলেন না মুকুট ধরে রাখতে। মেয়েদের ৪০০ মিটার ফ্রিস্টাইলে রুপা পেয়েছেন কেটি লেডেকি।

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অলিম্পিকে মুকুট ধরে রেখে অনন্য পিটি

বাহুতে আঁকিয়েছিলেন সিংহের ট্যাটু। বলেছিলেন, ব্রিটিশ সিংহের মতোই তিনি। সুইমিংপুলে ঝড় তুলে তাই করে দেখালেন অ্যাডাম পিটি। ধরে রাখলেন অলিম্পিকে ১০০ মিটার ব্রেস্টস্ট্রোকের মুকুট। গ্রেট ব্রিটেনকে উপহার দিলেন এবারের আসরে প্রথম সোনা।

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China says US is the 'inventor of coercive diplomacy'

The United States is the "inventor of coercive diplomacy", China's vice foreign minister Xie Feng told US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on Monday, according to a statement on the foreign ministry website.

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Steven Weinberg, Nobel prize-winning physicist, dies at 88

Steven Weinberg, a theoretical physicist who discovered that two of the universe’s forces are really the same, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize, and who helped lay the foundation for the development of the Standard Model, a theory that classifies all known elementary particles in the universe, making it one of the most important breakthroughs in physics in the 20th century, died Friday in a hospital in Austin, Texas. He was 88.

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US offers further air support to Afghan troops amid Taliban offensive

The United States will continue to carry out airstrikes to support Afghan forces facing attack from the insurgent Taliban, a regional US commander said on Sunday as US and other international forces have drawn down troops in Afghanistan.

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ম্যাকনেইলে কানাডার প্রথম সোনার হাসি

সাঁতার শেষ করেই টাইমিং বোর্ডে দিলেন দৃষ্টি। বিস্ময়ের ঘোর যেন কাটতেই চায় না। টোকিও অলিম্পিকসে মেয়েদের ১০০ মিটার বাটারফ্লাইয়ের সোনা জিতে অস্ফুটেই মার্গারেট ম্যাকনেইল বলে উঠলেন ‘ও মাই গড’।

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Kidnappers in Nigeria release 28 schoolchildren, another 81 still held

Kidnappers who raided a boarding school in northern Nigeria earlier this month released 28 children on Sunday but another 81 remain in captivity, according to a pastor involved in the negotiations for their release.

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Tunisian democracy in crisis after president ousts government

Tunisia faced its biggest crisis in a decade of democracy on Monday after President Kais Saied ousted the government and froze the activities of parliament, a move his foes labelled a coup that should be opposed on the street.

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In Nagorno-Karabakh, land mines, bulldozers and lingering tensions

The medieval monastery walls are masked with camouflage netting. Machine-gun nests line the courtyard under a fluttering Russian flag. Cannons mounted on armoured vehicles guard the mountainside where tour buses used to park.

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China's private education firms brace for hit from new rules, shares tumble

China's private education firms are bracing for a "material"  hit to their operations after Beijing announced new rules barring for-profit tutoring in core school subjects to ease financial pressures on families.

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Need to renew your passport? Good luck

As Americans finally start taking their long-awaited vacations, a surprising number of them are realising that before they can go abroad, they must first take a different kind of trip: to a US Passport Acceptance Agency.

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Tunisian president ousts government in move critics call a coup

Tunisia's president dismissed the government and froze parliament on Sunday in a dramatic escalation of a political crisis that his opponents labelled a coup, calling their own supporters to come onto the streets in protest.

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Toyota led on clean cars. Now critics say it works to delay them

The Toyota Prius hybrid was a milestone in the history of clean cars, attracting millions of buyers worldwide who could do their part for the environment while saving money on gasoline.

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New Zealand accepts return of Islamic State-linked citizen

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she has agreed to a request from Turkish authorities to accept the return of a New Zealand citizen accused of having links to the Islamic State, and her two young children.

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Landslide kills nine in northern Indian state

Nine people were killed by a landslide in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday as boulders fell and hit the vehicle they were travelling in, news agency ANI reported.

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Soccer team was lone bright spot in West Bank village. Virus took that, too

The bleachers were mostly empty, the coach was nowhere to be found and the players were dejected as they suffered another lopsided defeat.

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The Delta variant is the symptom of a bigger threat: vaccine refusal

After an all-too-brief respite, the United States is again at a crossroads in the pandemic. The number of infections has ticked up — slowly at first, then swiftly — to 51,000 cases per day, on average, more than four times the rate a month ago. The country may again see overflowing hospitals, exhausted health care workers and thousands of needless deaths.

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Eyes of investors around the world are now on Bangladesh: BSEC chief Shibli Rubayat

Bangladesh is now recognised as an attractive destination for investment in the world, says Shibli Rubayat-Ul-Islam, chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Bhuvneshwar shines as India beat Sri Lanka by 38 runs in first T20

Seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar took four wickets as a second-string India team defeated Sri Lanka by 38 runs in the first Twenty20 international of their three-match series in Colombo on Sunday.

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Facebook wants you to connect with God. On Facebook

Months before the megachurch Hillsong opened its new outpost in Atlanta, its pastor sought advice on how to build a church in a pandemic.

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No longer ‘hidden victims,’ children are dying as virus surges in Indonesia

Hundreds of children in Indonesia have died from the coronavirus in recent weeks, many of them younger than 5, a mortality rate greater than that of any other country and one that challenges the idea that children face minimal risk from COVID-19, doctors say.

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Rumbling meteor lights up Norway; part of it may have landed near Oslo

An "unusually large meteor" briefly lit up southern Norway on Sunday, creating a spectacular sound and light display as it rumbled across the sky, and a bit of it may have hit Earth, possibly not far from the capital, Oslo, experts said.

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Free speech or secession? ‘Liberate Hong Kong’ at heart of landmark case

Three Hong Kong judges will rule on Tuesday whether the protest slogan "Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our Times" is a call for secession when they deliver a verdict on charges against a man arrested at a demonstration last year.

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টোকিওতে সাদামাটা শুটার বাকি

টোকিওর পথে উড়াল দেওয়ার আগে আব্দুল্লাহ হেল বাকি প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়েছিলেন আলো ছড়ানোর। কিন্তু প্রতিশ্রুতি রাখতে পারলেন না তিনি। ছিটকে গেলেন টোকিও অলিম্পিকসের ১০ মিটার এয়ার রাইফেলের বাছাই থেকেই।

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Masks at Tokyo medal ceremonies 'a must to have': IOC spokesman

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Sunday that masks are a "must to have" at Tokyo medal ceremonies after swimmers were seen taking off masks on the medal podium and hugging other competitors in violation of COVID-19 rules.

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How tech won the pandemic and now may never lose

In April 2020, with 2,000 Americans dying every day of COVID-19, Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s chief executive and the world’s richest man, announced he was focusing on people rather than profits. Amazon would spend about $4 billion in the next few months “providing for customers and protecting employees,” he said, wiping out the profit the retailer would have made without the virus.

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A pig with a nose for truffles could draw a bounty

In the new film “Pig,” Nicolas Cage plays a prominent Portland chef named Robin Feld who left the city’s high-end restaurant scene to live in the Oregon wilderness, where he forages for truffles with his beloved pig. The reclusive chef is forced to reemerge in the city after 15 years away to search for the beloved pig, which was stolen from him late one night.

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Australians may face longer lockdown after mass protests

Australia's New South Wales logged its second-highest daily increase in locally acquired COVID-19 cases of the year on Sunday amid fears of a wave of new infections after thousands of people joined an anti-lockdown protest.

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অলিম্পিক রেকর্ড গড়ে সোনা জিতলেন ভিতালিনা

ভিতালিনা বাতসারাশকিনার হাত ধরে টোকিও অলিম্পিকসে প্রথম সোনা জয়ের স্বাদ পেয়েছে আরওসি (রাশিয়া)।

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রেকর্ডকন্যা হোসসুকে ম্লান করে সোনার হাসি ওহাশির

রিও দে জেনেইরো অলিম্পিকে বিশ্বরেকর্ড গড়ে সোনা জয়ী কাতিনকা হোসসু ধরে রাখতে পারলেন না সাফল্যের ধারাবাহিকতা। টোকিও অলিম্পিকসে মেয়েদের ৪০০ মিটার ব্যক্তিগত মিডলেতে বাজিমাত করলেন স্বাগতিক জাপানের সাঁতারু ইউই ওহাশি।

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Tokyo Olympics: Meet the blind Sidley associate going for gold

Five years ago, Sidley Austin (law firm based in the United States) associate Matt Simpson, who is blind, won a silver medal at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

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Indonesia prepares more ICU units, waits to see if COVID curbs will be extended

Indonesia is preparing more intensive care units after logging several days of record-high COVID-19 deaths last week, while the country waits to see whether the government will extend or loosen tough restrictions due to expire on Sunday.

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Afghanistan imposes curfew as Taliban militants advance

The Afghan government imposed a curfew across almost all of the country on Saturday in an attempt to stop the Taliban from invading cities, BBC News reports.

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টোকিও অলিম্পিকস: সুইমিংয়ের প্রথম সোনা যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের

সুইমিংপুলে লড়াই জমল দুই সতীর্থ চেইস কেলিস ও জে লিদারল্যান্ডের মধ্যে। শেষ পর্যন্ত জিতলেন কেলিস। টোকিও অলিম্পিকের সুইমিং ইভেন্টের প্রথম সোনা ও রুপা পেল যুক্তরাষ্ট্র।

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Tokyo Olympics opening draws 16.7m US TV viewers, a 33-year low

NBC's broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest US television audience for the event in the past 33 years, according to preliminary data from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal on Saturday.

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Sydney to get extra vaccines as COVID cases mount

Sydney will get 50,000 more doses of the Pfizer vaccine this week to battle its worsening COVID outbreak, Canberra said on Saturday, reversing a rebuff by the Australian government and other states the previous day of a plea for more supplies.

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US wildfires turn full moon orange

Raging wildfires in the US northwest and southwestern Canada cast an orange tint on July's full moon on Friday evening, as smoke from multiple blazes gusted toward the east.

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US to announce troop drawdown from Iraq, but little is expected to change

Iraq’s prime minister is heading to Washington this weekend to demand that President Joe Biden withdraw all US combat troops from Iraq, announcing to Iraqi media that the visit would “put an end to the presence of combat forces.”

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They were once luxury venues. Now they are grim COVID-19 camps

The patients sit in packed ambulances before passing through metal gates. Once they are inside, they get a number, like C07-22, a thin blanket and a bedsheet, which is meant to be a mosquito net. Lights shine bright at all hours for constant camera surveillance. Each person is given four bottles of water a day and three small meals.

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Flood deaths in China show road risks from climate change

More than 200 cars were caught in a highway tunnel Tuesday in central China when record-setting rainfall soaked the area. Torrents of water poured in the tunnel’s entrances, nearly filling it to the ceiling.

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Health minister hopes Bangladesh will get 210m COVID vaccine doses by early 2022

Health Minister Zahid Maleque hopes the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses Bangladesh is receiving will reach 210 million by early 2022.   

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Solskjaer signs new Manchester United deal until 2024

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has signed a new deal to stay at Old Trafford until at least 2024, with an option for an extra year, the Premier League club said on Saturday.

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Metro rail, first in Bangladesh, was delayed by COVID-19. A new date is far off

The launch of the Agargaon-Uttara route of Bangladesh’s first metro rail is being delayed further with the COVID-19 situation going from bad to worse.

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Pakistan Super League to be held in Jan-Feb window next year

The Pakistan Super League (PSL) will be held in January and February next year, the country's cricket board said on Saturday following a meeting with the Twenty20 tournament's franchises.

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The 1964 Games proclaimed a new Japan. There’s less to cheer this time

Under crisp blue skies in October 1964, Emperor Hirohito of Japan stood before a reborn nation to declare the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games. A voice that the Japanese public had first heard announcing the country’s surrender in World War II now echoed across a packed stadium alive with anticipation.

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Sinopharm's COVID-19 shot offers weaker protection among elderly

Sinopharm's COVID-19 vaccine was less effective in offering protection against the disease among the elderly, according to the results of a Hungarian study.

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Woman, daughter found dead in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar

Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and her child, presumed murdered, from a home in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar.

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Persuasion vs coercion: Vaccine debate in Europe heats up

As Europe and the United States scramble to find an appropriate balance between curbing the delta variant of the coronavirus and curbing personal freedom, President Emmanuel Macron of France has led the way down a narrow path combining limited compulsion to get vaccinated with widespread coercion.

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UK growth slows sharply in July as COVID 'pingdemic' hits

Britain's rapid economic bounce-back from the COVID-19 pandemic slowed sharply in July as a new wave of cases forced hundreds of thousands of workers to self-isolate under government rules to limit the spread of the disease.

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Glittering gold distracts from Tokyo woes

China fired an ominous warning as Yang Qian grabbed the Games' first gold, the morning after Japan's global superstar tennis player Naomi Osaka had lit the Olympic cauldron to officially open the pandemic-delayed extravaganza.

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Nation to pay last respects to folk music icon Fakir Alamgir at Shaheed Minar

The mortal remains of Fakir Alamgir will be taken to the Central Shaheed Minar for the nation to pay homage to the folk music legend.

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Global supply chains buckle as virus variant and disasters strike

A new worldwide wave of COVID-19. Natural disasters in China and Germany. A cyber attack targeting key South African ports.

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Biden authorises $100 million in emergency funds for Afghan refugees

US President Joe Biden on Friday authorized up to $100 million from an emergency fund to meet "unexpected urgent" refugee needs stemming from the situation in Afghanistan, including for Afghan special immigration visa applicants, the White House said.

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অলিম্পিকস: কীর্তি গড়া সিরিয়ার ছোট্ট মেয়েটি

অলিম্পিকসের আঙিনায় পথচলা থেমেছে প্রথম রাউন্ডে। তিনগুণের বেশি বয়সী প্রতিপক্ষের বিপক্ষে লড়েছেন। পেরে ওঠেননি। কিন্তু তাতে কী? খেলতে নেমেই যে দারুণ এক কীর্তি গড়ে ফেলেছেন হেন্দ জাজা। গৃহযুদ্ধ বিধ্বস্ত সিরিয়ার ১২ বছর বয়সী এই টেবিল টেনিস খেলোয়াড়ই টোকিওর আসরের সবচেয়ে কম বয়সী অ্যাথলেট!

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Tokyo Olympics: Algerian judoka suspended, sent home for withdrawing to avoid Israeli

The International Judo Federation suspended on Saturday an Algerian judoka and his coach for withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics before his event started after the draw set him on course for a match against an Israeli.

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টোকিও অলিম্পিকস: প্রথম সোনা চীনের ইয়াংয়ের

টোকিও অলিম্পিকসের প্রথম সোনার নিষ্পত্তি হয়েছে। চীনের শুটার ইয়াং কিয়ান অলিম্পিকের রেকর্ড গড়ে পেয়েছেন প্রথম সোনার পদক জয়ের স্বাদ।

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মিশ্র দ্বৈত থেকে রোমান-দিয়া জুটির বিদায়

প্রথম সেট প্রতিরোধহীন। দ্বিতীয় সেটে কিছুটা লড়াইয়ের পর হার। তৃতীয় সেটে শক্তিশালী দক্ষিণ কোরিয়ার সঙ্গে জমজমাট লড়াই করল রোমান সানা-দিয়া সিদ্দিকী জুটি, কিন্তু শেষ পর্যন্ত পেরে ওঠা যায়নি। রিকার্ভ মিশ্র দ্বৈতের কোয়ার্টার-ফাইনালের আগে ছিটকে গেছে বাংলাদেশ।

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Biden assures Afghan president of continued US support

With the last US forces on the way out of Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden assured President Ashraf Ghani of US diplomatic and humanitarian support on Friday as Taliban advances piled pressure on the US-backed government in Kabul.

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Rawhide merchants, tanners trade blame as Bangladesh leather industry troubles drag on

Stakeholders in Bangladesh’s leather industry were hoping the trade of rawhide from cattle slaughtered on Eid-ul-Azha would really take off this year, but many seasonal traders dumped animal skin after failing to get the asking price.

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Indian court extends custody of businessman Raj Kundra in porn film case

An Indian court on Friday extended the custody of Raj Kundra, a businessman married to popular Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, police said, in a pornography case that has stunned the country's film industry.

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Blinken to visit India with vaccines and China in focus

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel next week to India, an important partner in US efforts to counter China and in vaccine diplomacy that is hobbled by its own COVID-19 crisis.

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Hard hit by COVID, rains spark fear of dengue outbreak in Dhaka

Dengue cases are threatening to overwhelm Dhaka’s stretched healthcare system amid the coronavirus outbreak, with the hospitals admitting the highest number of patients with the mosquito-borne disease in the official daily count this year.

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US strikes Taliban targets in a show of force in Afghanistan

US military aircraft struck a number of Taliban positions this week in support of faltering Afghan government forces, in one of the first significant American reactions to the insurgents’ blistering advance across Afghanistan as US troops withdraw.

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Hasina sends Haribhanga mango to Imran Khan in 'goodwill gesture'

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sent special Bangladeshi mangoes to her Pakistan counterpart Imran Khan as “a gesture of goodwill”.

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পিএসজির সঙ্গে নতুন চুক্তি পচেত্তিনোর

পিএসজির সঙ্গে চুক্তির মেয়াদ বাড়িয়েছেন মাওরিসিও পচেত্তিনো। নতুন চুক্তি অনুযায়ী, ২০২৩ সালের জুন মাস পর্যন্ত ফরাসি ক্লাবটির কোচের দায়িত্বে থাকছেন এই আর্জেন্টাইন।

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Bangladeshi folk music icon Fakir Alamgir dies of COVID aged 71

Folk music legend Fakir Alamgir has died from COVID-19 under hospital care in Dhaka at the age of 71.

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টোকিওতে সেরা স্কোর দিয়ার, রোমান ১৭তম

নিজেকে ছাপিয়ে টোকিও অলিম্পিক শুরু করলেন দিয়া সিদ্দিকী। রিকার্ভ মহিলা এককের র‌্যাঙ্কিং রাউন্ডে ব্যক্তিগত সেরা স্কোরকে ছাপিয়ে গেছেন বাংলাদেশের এই আর্চার।

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As Haitian leader’s funeral nears, anger burns in the streets

Hours before mourners were due to pay tribute to assassinated President Jovenel Moïse at a state funeral on Friday — a moment many hoped would help mend a fractured nation — the northern city of Cap-Haïtien burned with anger and frustration, exposing Haiti’s deep divisions.

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Myanmar to use Chinese vaccines to fight COVID in border area

China is delivering two million COVID-19 vaccine shots to Myanmar this week to help fight a growing outbreak in the border area, officials said, as a spike in infections in the Southeast Asian country spills over into parts of southern China.

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Dhaka streets are virtually empty as 'strictest' lockdown sets in

Dhaka is wearing a largely deserted look, as only a smattering of vehicles dotted the streets following the onset of another lockdown, with curbs dubbed the 'strictest' yet, to rein in a record surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths.

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Once its strength, water now threatens Germany

Bad Muenstereifel's transformation from picturesque but sleepy German tourist town into an outlet shopping centre put it on the map for millions of visitors.

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The music scene in this Brooklyn neighbourhood is here to stay

One July Sunday, just off Newkirk Plaza in Brooklyn — between the yellow facade of a laundromat and the red awning of a bodega — the mellow strains of a saxophone floated over a crowd of about 150. The Haitian jazz guitarist Eddy Bourjolly introduced the song “Complainte Paysanne,” and the band serenaded the street.

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An officer was taunted and spat at. Now he faces criminal charges

A New York police sergeant was charged on Thursday with attacking two handcuffed suspects in separate arrests, punching one in the face when he was in a cell and kneeling on the back of another who was shouting “I can not breathe” from a subway station floor.

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Six die as pick-up truck ploughs into autorickshaw in Bagerhat

At least six people have been killed after a head-on collision between a pick-up truck and an Easybike, a local passenger vehicle, in Bagerhat's Fakirhat Upazila.

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Ant-backed Zomato soars in India market debut to $12 billion valuation

Food delivery firm Zomato Ltd shares nearly doubled in value in debut trading on Friday, in the first stock market listing of an Indian startup valued at more than $1 billion.

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Scandal-hit Tokyo looks to final torchbearer to mend battered image

Battered by scandal on the eve of the opening ceremony, Tokyo 2020 organisers have the chance to patch up the Games' image when they reveal today who will carry the Olympic flame for the final few steps to light the stadium's cauldron.

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‘A recipe for catastrophic fire’: How an Oregon blaze became the nation’s largest

Smoke smeared the sky gray. A tractor-style logging machine sat abandoned and charred in a field. Hundreds of firefighters raced across miles and miles of forest land, often outnumbering the populations of the small towns that speckle southern Oregon.

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US CDC advisers mull COVID-19 boosters for immune-compromised people

Advisers to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday will consider evidence suggesting that a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines could increase protection among people with compromised immune systems.

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Bubble burst: New Zealand suspends quarantine-free travel with Australia

New Zealand will pause its quarantine-free travel arrangement with Australia for at least eight weeks starting Friday night, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, as Australia fights an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta virus variant.

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Spacing Pfizer COVID shots boost antibody levels after initial drop

 A longer gap between doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine leads to higher overall antibody levels than a shorter gap, a British study found on Friday, but there is a sharp drop in antibody levels after the first dose.

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India watchdog accuses Amazon of concealing facts in deal for Future Group unit

India's antitrust regulator has accused Amazon.com Inc of concealing facts and making false submissions when it sought approval for a 2019 investment in a Future Group unit, a letter to the US e-commerce giant seen by Reuters showed.

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Zahrat Ara, female lead of first Pakistan-era Bengali movie 'Mukh O Mukhosh’, is dead

Zahrat Ara, who acted in ‘Mukh O Mukhosh’, the first Bengali film made in the then East Pakistan, has died in London.

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UK leaders hail a return to normal; their phone app disagrees

Gas stations closed, garbage collection cancelled and supermarket shelves stripped bare of food, water and other essential goods.

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As Taliban advances, Afghan military overhauls war strategy to limit losses

Reeling from a surge in battlefield losses, Afghanistan's military is overhauling its war strategy against the Taliban to concentrate forces around the most critical areas like Kabul and other cities, border crossings and vital infrastructure, Afghan and US officials say.

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Why even vaccinated people are getting ‘breakthrough’ infections

A wedding in Oklahoma leads to 15 vaccinated guests becoming infected with the coronavirus. Raucous Fourth of July celebrations disperse the virus from Provincetown, Massachusetts, to dozens of places across the country, sometimes carried by fully vaccinated celebrants.

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Bangladesh re-enters its ‘strictest’ coronavirus lockdown yet after Eid break

The Bangladesh government is reimposing a lockdown on Friday with curbs dubbed “strictest yet” after a nine-day break for Eid-ul-Azha in a desperate intervention to stem the tide of record coronavirus infections and deaths.

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‘Game over’: Food carts adjust to a changed city

Around 11:30 a.m. on a muggy July Wednesday in midtown Manhattan, the line for Uncle Gussy’s food truck started to form.

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Banks reopen on Jul 25 with limited transaction hours in post-Eid lockdown

Banks in Bangladesh will carry out transactions for three and a half hours from Jul 25 after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays when the government reimposes stringent lockdown measures from Friday.

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How to repair our shrinking social, job networks

If your social and professional networks disintegrated in the pandemic, you are not alone.

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Eid holidaymakers crowd Shimulia ferry port as they begin journey back to Dhaka

The Shimulia ferry port in Munshiganj is teeming with crowds of people heading back to Dhaka. Many others are leaving the capital, heading home with the meat from ritual sacrifices.

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How wildfire smoke spread across America

Wildfire smoke from Canada and the Western United States stretched across the continent this week, covering skies in a thick haze and triggering health alerts from Toronto to Philadelphia. Air quality remained in the unhealthy range across much of the East Coast on Wednesday morning as the haze pushed southward.

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From China to Germany, floods expose climate vulnerability

Deadly floods that have upended life in both China and Germany have sent a stark reminder that climate change is making weather more extreme across the globe.

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Facebook decided faith groups are good for business. Now, it wants your prayers

Facebook has long sought your attention. In recent weeks, it has started asking for your prayers as well in a new tool now available for US Facebook Groups.

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Tens of thousands evacuated as China storms spread northwards

Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated from flood-hit regions of central China on Thursday as officials raised the death toll from heavy rains that have deluged Henan province for almost a week to 33 people.

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Israel appoints task force to assess NSO spyware allegations

Israel has set up a senior inter-ministerial team to assess growing allegations that spyware sold by an Israeli cyber firm has been abused on a global scale, Israeli sources said on Wednesday.

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Opening ceremony director fired over Holocaust joke on Games eve

On the eve of the Tokyo Games, organisers fired the director of the opening ceremony over a joke he made about the Holocaust, while media reported former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a memorable advocate for the Tokyo Games, would skip the showpiece event.

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Asians are represented in classical music. But are they seen?

As reports of anti-Asian hate crimes spread in the United States earlier this year, David Kim, a violist in the San Francisco Symphony, found himself despondent.

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Three dead as microbus crashes into ditch in Munshiganj

Three people have been killed after a Dhaka-bound microbus veered out of control and plunged into a roadside ditch on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Munshiganj's Gajaria.

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China orders immediate review of subway flood controls as rains continue

The Chinese government ordered local authorities to immediately improve urban transit flood controls and emergency responses on Thursday after a dozen people were killed in a submerged subway amid torrential rains that continue to lash central China.

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US scrambles to move translators from Afghanistan while leaving many in limbo

An additional 4,000 Afghans who worked with US forces, many of them interpreters, had been approved to relocate to the United States with their families in light of the withdrawal of US troops, State Department officials said Wednesday.

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Two doses of Pfizer, AstraZeneca shots effective against Delta variant, study finds

Two doses of Pfizer or AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine are nearly as effective against the highly transmissible Delta virus variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, a study published on Wednesday showed.

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Job-hunters, have you posted your résumé on TikTok?

“Calling all recruiters!” Makena Yee, 21, a college student in Seattle, shouted into her camera in a recent TikTok video. “These are the reasons why you should hire me!”

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Half of all Afghan district centres under Taliban control: US general

Taliban insurgents control about half of Afghanistan's district centres, the senior US general said on Wednesday, indicating a rapidly deteriorating security situation.

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At least 17 migrants drown off Tunisia in shipwreck: Red Crescent

At least 17 Bengali migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy from Libya, while more than 380 were rescued by the coastguard, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Wednesday.

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India facilitates medical oxygen supply to Bangladesh on Eid

Bangladesh has received 180 tonnes of liquefied medical oxygen from India, a supply facilitated on an emergency basis on the day of Eid-ul-Azha amid the escalating coronavirus pandemic.

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Saturated Dhaka hospitals fear worst COVID wave still to come in August

With 10 days to go, July already has the dubious distinction of being the worst month for Bangladesh during the pandemic with deaths and infections regularly hitting record peaks, but the hospitals in Dhaka fear a coronavirus crisis even worse may play out in August.

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US life expectancy plunged in 2020, especially for Black and Hispanic Americans

Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020, largely because of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a federal report said Wednesday, a staggering drop that affected Hispanic and Black Americans more severely than white people.

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Liverpool loses its UNESCO World Heritage status

Liverpool was removed Wednesday from the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites after being granted the title 17 years ago, because of concerns about developments in the city — most significantly on its famous waterfront.

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How nations are learning to ‘let it go’ and live with COVID

England has removed nearly all coronavirus restrictions. Germany is allowing vaccinated people to travel without quarantines. Mask mandates are gone in Italy. Shopping malls remain open in Singapore.

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India reports first human death from bird flu

An 11-year-old boy has died in India from a bird flu virus of the H5N1 strain, the first such fatality in the country, highlighting a potential new risk for the world's second-most populous nation battling the coronavirus pandemic.

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প্রথম লেগে ভিএআরে বাতিল হয়েছিল গোল। দ্বিতীয় লেগেও সেই একই পরিণতি। কোপা লিবের্তাদোরেস থেকে ব্রাজিলের দল আতলেতিকো মিনেইরোর কাছে হেরে ছিটকে যাওয়ার পর তাই ক্ষোভ আটকে রাখতে পারেনি আর্জেন্টিনার ক্লাব বোকা জুনিয়র্সের খেলোয়াড়রা। টানেলে, ড্রেসিংরুমে ঝাঁপিয়ে পড়ল তারা। লঙ্কাকাণ্ড থামাতে শেষ পর্যন্ত টিয়ার গ্যাসও মারতে হয়েছে পুলিশকে!

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সীমাবদ্ধতা মেনে খোশ মেজাজেই রোমান-দিয়া-বাকিরা

এবারের পরিস্থিতি একেবারেই ভিন্ন। প্রাণঘাতী করোনাভাইরাসের থাবায় জেরবার বিশ্ব। অলিম্পিক যখন দুয়ারে টোকিওতে তখন বাড়ছে এই ভাইরাসের সংক্রমণ। অলিম্পিক ঘিরে তাই উচ্ছ্বাস-উন্মাদনা নেই আগের মতো। নানা সীমাবদ্ধতার বেড়াজালে বন্দি অ্যাথলেট, কোচ, কর্মকর্তারা। এই কঠিন বাস্তবতাটুকু মেনে নিয়ে প্রস্তুতি চলছে রোমান-দিয়া-বাকিদের।

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Australia, under lockdown, sees jump in COVID-19 cases

Australia's two largest states reported sharp increases in new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, a blow to hopes that lockdown restrictions would be lifted with more than half the country's population under stay-at-home orders.

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She said she married for love. Her parents called it coercion

Manmeet Kour Bali had to defend her marriage in court.

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Police constable ‘commits suicide’ by rifle in Meherpur on Eid day

Meherpur authorities say a police constable has died by suicide after shooting himself with a rifle on the morning of Eid-ul-Azha.

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Netflix to add mobile video games as subscriber growth slows

Netflix Inc said it would make a deeper dive into video games as the movie and TV streaming service projected weak subscriber growth amid growing competition and the lifting of pandemic restrictions that had kept people at home.

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Study says India's COVID death toll is at least 3 million

The number of people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic in India is likely to exceed 3 million — nearly 10 times the official COVID-19 death toll — making it one of the worst human tragedies in the country’s history, according to a new study.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo leads the Milwaukee Bucks to NBA Championship

A half century ago, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — a young goliath then known as Lew Alcindor — led the Milwaukee Bucks to their first championship. For decades, it was the only time the franchise had reached that height.

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US formally accuses China of hacking Microsoft

The Biden administration Monday formally accused the Chinese government of breaching Microsoft email systems used by many of the world’s largest companies, governments and military contractors, as the United States joined a broad group of allies, including all NATO members, to condemn Beijing for cyberattacks around the world.

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China unveils 600 kph maglev train, fastest ground vehicle in the world

China unveiled a maglev train capable of a top speed of 600 kph on Tuesday, state media said.

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Central Chinese province swamped after heaviest rain in 1,000 years

Large swathes of China's central Henan province were under water on Wednesday, with its capital Zhengzhou hardest-hit after being drenched by what weather forecasters said was the heaviest rain in 1,000 years.

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After passing of Simon Dring, Fiona McPherson reminisces about her partner of 26 years

Simon Dring, a famous British journalist, who rose to fame for covering wars and revolutions around the world, died at the age of 76. In a Facebook note, his partner Fiona McPherson reminisces about his life and work and their journey together:

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Tokyo kicks off Games amid COVID-19 fears

The pandemic-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics began on Wednesday with Japanese women's softball pitcher Yukiko Ueno getting Games competition underway in what the head of the World Health Organisation said was needed as "a celebration of hope".

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Bangladesh celebrates Eid with prayers for an end to pandemic

Bangladesh has opened the celebrations of Eid-ul-Azha with morning prayers and the sacrifice of animals amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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Western wildfire smoke causes cross-country air pollution

Wildfires raging across the western United States and Canada, including a "monster" two-week-old blaze in Oregon, on Tuesday belched smoke and soot that gusted eastward and caused harmful air pollution as far away as New York City.

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How safe is the US president's 'nuclear football'? Pentagon watchdog to find out

The Pentagon's watchdog said on Tuesday it would evaluate the safety protocols surrounding the president's "nuclear football" - containing codes needed for a strike - after one such briefcase nearly came within range of rioters storming the Capitol on Jan 6.

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Fire guts 10 shanties at Ukhiya Rohingya camp

At least 10 shanties have gone up in flames at Balukhali Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

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Unlocked Bangladesh celebrating Eid-ul-Azha with pandemic call for caution

Muslims in Bangladesh are going to celebrate another Eid-ul-Azha amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic on Wednesday, with a record rise in the number of patients prompting calls for caution.

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'We lost': Some US veterans say blood spilled in Afghanistan was wasted

Jason Lilley was a special operations forces Marine Raider who fought in multiple battles in Iraq and Afghanistan during America's longest war.

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This holiday season: cows, goats and buffaloes delivered to your door

Think of it as Amazon, but for cows, goats and sheep. And this holiday season, the sales are skyrocketing.

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India edge Sri Lanka in nervy run chase to clinch ODI series

India beat Sri Lanka by three wickets in the second one-day international to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series after Suryakumar Yadav and Deepak Chahar guided the tourists home with maiden half-centuries on Tuesday.

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Delta variant behind more than 80% of US cases; vaccines still highly effective: Fauci

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is the cause of more than 80% of new US COVID-19 cases, but the authorised vaccines remain more than 90% effective in preventing hospitalisations and deaths, said top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci during US Senate hearing on Tuesday.

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Bangladesh pauses COVID vaccination until Jul 23 for Eid

Bangladesh has suspended its nationwide vaccination drive against COVID-19 from Jul 20-23 due to the Eid-ul-Azha holidays.

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Pakistan says needs Afghan cooperation for probe into envoy's daughter's kidnapping

Pakistan said on Monday it was waiting for information from the Afghan government in an investigation into the brief kidnapping of the Afghan ambassador's daughter in Islamabad, after Afghanistan raised questions over the credibility of the probe.

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'We must win battle against COVID': Hasina's message to Bangladeshis on Eid-ul-Azha

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reiterated the need to abide by health directives to curb COVID-19 transmissions as she extended her greetings to the nation on Eid-ul-Azha.

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Europe becomes first region to cross 50 million COVID cases: Reuters

Europe became the first region worldwide to cross 50 million coronavirus cases on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, as the more contagious Delta variant spurred a record surge in daily new infections.

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Actor Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra arrested in pornography case

Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's husband, businessman Raj Kundra, has been arrested in a case involving pornographic films, Indian news outlets report.

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Rockets land near Kabul presidential palace during Eid prayers

Rockets landed near the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul on Tuesday during prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, a live television broadcast showed.

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UK PM Johnson dismissed COVID-19 lockdown as only elderly would die, ex-aide says

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was not prepared to impose lockdown restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 to save the elderly and denied the National Health Service would be overwhelmed, his former top adviser said in an interview aired on Monday.

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India's 30,093 new COVID cases are lowest daily figure in 4 months

India reported on Tuesday 30,093 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, the lowest such figure in four months.

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Hundreds considered missing in Europe floods are safe, even as toll rises

European authorities have revised down the number of people missing as waters receded after devastating flooding in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland last week, even as the death toll continues to rise.

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Peru socialist Castillo confirmed president after lengthy battle over results

Peru's electoral authority on Monday named socialist Pedro Castillo as the country's next president, having officially won the June 6 runoff against right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori, who accepted the result but said she had been cheated.

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Suicide attack in Iraq's Sadr City kills at least 35, wounds dozens

A suicide bomber killed at least 35 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, the eve of the Eid-ul-Azha festival, security and hospital sources said.

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Caught between China and the US, Asian countries stockpile powerful new missiles

Asia is sliding into a dangerous arms race as smaller nations that once stayed on the sidelines build arsenals of advanced long-range missiles, following in the footsteps of powerhouses China and the United States, analysts say.

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US coronavirus cases rise, fuelling fears of resurgence

A rapid increase in coronavirus cases in the United States and abroad is fuelling fears of a pandemic resurgence and sending shockwaves through the stock market as the highly contagious Delta variant takes hold and vaccinations lag in several states.

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Younger patients were largely surviving COVID in Bangladesh. Delta variant changes that

The mortality rate among younger COVID-19 patients was low in Bangladesh, but the Delta variant of the coronavirus has changed the picture as cases in the first 15 days of July have outnumbered the total infections of a whole month in the past during the pandemic.

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Evaly has six commerce ministry questions to answer

The commerce ministry has ordered Evaly, an e-commerce business marred by allegations of delay in delivery, to explain six issues.

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Biden meets Jordan's King Abdullah to discuss Middle East issues

US President Joe Biden on Monday held Oval Office talks with Jordan's King Abdullah, a key US ally in a volatile region, in the first of three face-to-face meetings expected soon with Middle East leaders.

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Market blast in Iraq's Sadr City kills at least 28, wounds dozens

An explosion killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens in a crowded market in the Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Monday, police and hospital sources said.

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Three Russians banned by FIFA for doping offences

Three Russian football players have been suspended by FIFA's disciplinary committee for breaching anti-doping regulations, the sport's world governing body said on Monday.

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Coronavirus cluster overshadows run-up to Tokyo Olympics

The opening ceremony is Friday and the first competitions are Wednesday. But organisers of the Tokyo Olympics, delayed one year by the pandemic, are struggling to manage public anxiety about the Games after an outbreak of coronavirus cases that threaten to overshadow the festivities.

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রিয়াল ফরোয়ার্ড দিয়াস আবারও মিলানে

দুই বছরের ধারের চুক্তিতে রিয়াল মাদ্রিদ থেকে অ্যাটাকিং মিডফিল্ডার ব্রাহিম দিয়াসকে আবারও দলে টেনেছে এসি মিলান।

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DNCC fines Gabtoli cattle market lessee Tk 1m for breach of COVID rules

A mobile court has fined the lessee of Gabtali cattle market Tk 1 million for failing to comply with the health directives aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus infection.

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Haiti’s acting prime minister is stepping down

Claude Joseph, the prime minister who immediately took control of Haiti’s government after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse this month, is stepping down, the nation’s minister for elections said in a text message Monday.

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What China expects from businesses: Total surrender

When Pony Ma, head of the Chinese internet powerhouse Tencent, attended a group meeting with Premier Li Keqiang in 2014, he complained that many local governments had banned ride-sharing apps installed on smartphones.

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Paintings, projections, VR Starry Night: can we ever know Van Gogh?

In 2017, I took a trip to Paris, where I greedily took in as much art as I could. In one of the cavernous chambers of the ornate Musée d’Orsay was the Vincent van Gogh exhibition, his framed works (“Starry Night Over the Rhône,” “Bedroom in Arles,” “The Church at Auvers,” a number of his self-portraits) set against a brazen sapphire background rather than the usual chaste white museum walls.

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All aboard the hyperloop: how your commute could be changing

Think about the future of transportation, and you might envision the old animated show "The Jetsons," with everyone flying around in personal spaceships.

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2 killed in ‘shootout’ with RAB in Mymensingh

At least two people have been killed in an alleged shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon.

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Nepal's new PM wins confidence vote amid coronavirus crisis

Nepal's new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba won a vote of confidence in parliament on Sunday, days after the Supreme Court reinstated the legislature that was dissolved in May.

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Asian shares hit 1-week lows on renewed virus scare, inflation worry

Asian shares slipped to a one-week low on Monday and perceived safe haven assets, including the yen and gold, edged higher amid fears of rising inflation and a surge in COVID-19 cases, while oil prices fell on oversupply worries.

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Who is following pandemic health guidelines at Dhaka cattle markets? No one

Akhtaruzzaman, a resident of Dhaka’s Begunbari, brought his two adolescent sons and two other members of the family to Meradia cattle market. They were checking prices with the traders.

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Zoom to buy cloud software provider Five9 in $15b deal

Zoom Video Communications Inc has agreed to buy cloud software provider Five9 Inc in an all-stock deal worth about $14.7 billion to target business clients looking to boost customer engagement, it said on Sunday.

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‘Nobody believed me’: how rape cases get dropped

Cammy Duong woke up in a Manhattan hotel room in July 2017 and, dazed, called a friend. “I think I was raped,” she said, crying.

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Asian shares hit 1-wk lows on renewed virus scare, inflation worry

Asian shares slipped to a one-week low on Monday and perceived safe haven assets, including the yen and gold, edged higher amid fears of rising inflation and a surge in COVID-19 cases, while oil prices fell on oversupply worries.

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Taliban's political office says it did not suggest a truce in Doha talks

A spokesman for the Taliban’s political office told Al Jazeera TV on Sunday that the group did not suggest an Afghan truce during the Doha talks.

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‘Historical distortions’ test South Korea’s commitment to free speech

In the history of South Korea’s fight for democracy, the 1980 uprising in Gwangju stands out as one of the proudest moments. Thousands of ordinary citizens took to the streets to protest a military dictatorship, and hundreds were shot down by security forces. The bloody incident has been sanctified in textbooks as the “Gwangju Democratisation Movement.”

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Singapore advises unvaccinated people to stay home as cases rise

Singapore's health ministry on Sunday "strongly" advised unvaccinated individuals, especially the elderly, to stay home as much as possible over the next few weeks, citing heightened concerns about the risk of community spread of COVID-19.

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Israeli firm's spyware used to target journalists' cell phones

An Israeli company's spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world, according to an investigation by 17 media organisations published on Sunday.

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After war with Israel, a grieving Gaza marks Eid Al-Adha holiday

For Palestinians who lost loved ones in the fighting between Gaza militants and Israel two months ago, there is little cause for celebration during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha.

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PM Johnson pleads for caution as 'Freedom Day' arrives in England

Prime Minister Boris Johnson ends more than a year of COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in England on Monday, urging the public to remain cautious but putting his faith in vaccines to protect the country even as infections are surging.

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Commerce ministry to demand Evaly’s explanation amid controversies

The commerce ministry is going to formally ask Evaly, an e-commerce platform embroiled in controversies, why it cannot deliver products months after payment.

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US surgeon general defends CDC mask change, blames tech companies for COVID deaths

US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy stood by federal guidance that those fully vaccinated against COVID-19 no longer needed to wear masks, while blaming social media companies for fueling vaccine misinformation.

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Skipper Dhawan, debutant Kishan help India spank Sri Lanka in first ODI

Skipper Shikhar Dhawan led by example and wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan impressed in his one-day debut to secure a comprehensive seven-wicket win for India against Sri Lanka in the first match at the R Premadasa Stadium on Sunday.

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France bans crushing and gassing of male chicks from 2022

France will ban from next year the killing of male chicks by crushing or gassing, a practice denounced as barbaric by animal welfare groups, and will push for a similar measure at European level, the agriculture minister said on Sunday.

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Hamilton takes controversial eighth home British GP win

Lewis Hamilton won his home British Grand Prix for a record-extending eighth time on Sunday despite a 10-second penalty for a controversial first lap collision that sent Red Bull rival Max Verstappen crashing out of the race.

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Afghanistan withdraws ambassador, diplomats from Islamabad

Afghanistan has withdrawn its ambassador and diplomats from Pakistan's capital following the kidnapping of the ambassador's daughter, the Afghan foreign ministry said on Sunday, a new blow to relations at a sensitive time for the Afghan peace process.

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As lockdown looms, Chattogram merchants worry about preserving Eid rawhides

The prospect of another spell of lockdown restrictions after the Eid-ul-Azha holidays has left merchants in Chattogram worried about the preservation of rawhides and skins of sacrificial animals.

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Landslides kill at least 15 in Mumbai after heavy rains

At least 15 people died after several houses in two Mumbai suburbs collapsed due to landslides caused by heavy rainfalls, local officials said on Sunday.

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Five people die as two buses collide in Rangpur

At least five people have died in a collision between two buses in Rangpur’s Mithapukur Upazila, police say. A child was among the dead.

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Four people shot outside Washington Nationals baseball stadium

Some fans and players scrambled for cover at a professional baseball game in Washington on Saturday night as the sound of gunfire filled the stadium, and police later said four people had been shot outside.

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Co-working spaces are back, and options abound

Though Kia Roberts, who runs her own misconduct investigation firm, originally felt hesitant about joining The Wing, the feminist-aligned coworking space and social club, she fell in love with it after a visit to its Dumbo location in early 2019.

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Germany's floods cover livelihoods in sludge

Business owners in a town badly hit by the record flooding in Germany struggled on Saturday to pick up the pieces after their livelihoods - from old books to wine - were swept away or caked in sludge.

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British ministers decide against mass vaccination for teens

Britain has opted against mass COVID-19 vaccinations for all children and teenagers, with ministers instead preparing to offer doses to vulnerable 12 to 15-year-olds and those about to turn 18, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Saturday.

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The pandemic has a new epicentre: Indonesia

By the thousands, they sleep in hallways, tents and cars, gasping for air as they wait for beds in overcrowded hospitals that may not have oxygen to give them. Others see hospitals as hopeless, even dangerous, and take their chances at home.

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Facebook says it should not be blamed for US failing to meet vaccine goals

Facebook on Saturday defended itself against US President Joe Biden's assertion that the

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Afghan politicians, Taliban meet in Doha as fighting continues

Afghan politicians met with representatives of the Taliban insurgents in Qatar on Saturday with each side calling for peace even as fighting escalates and uproots thousands of people.

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Martine Moise, widow of assassinated president, returns to Haiti

Martine Moise, the widow of Haiti's assassinated president Jovenel Moise, returned to the Caribbean nation on Saturday for his funeral after she was treated in a Miami hospital for injuries sustained during the July 7 attack at their private residence.

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All adults in Britain offered a COVID-19 shot ahead of Monday reopening

Every adult in the United Kingdom has been offered a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, the health ministry said on Sunday, ahead of the end of legal restrictions in England on Monday.

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France's Giroud joins AC Milan, thanks Chelsea for 'special moments'

France international striker Olivier Giroud has joined Italian Serie A side AC Milan from Champions League winners Chelsea, both clubs announced on Saturday.

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Bangladesh receives more Sinopharm COVID vaccines from China

Bangladesh has received one million more doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China.

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Bangladesh to begin vaccinating apparel workers at Gazipur factories Sunday

The authorities will begin administering COVID-19 vaccine doses to workers at factories in Gazipure on Sunday.

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Spike Lee accidentally announces ‘Titane’ as Palme d'Or winner at Cannes

"Titane", a wildly imaginative film about a serial killer by young French director Julia Ducournau won the Palme d'Or for Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival, jury head Spike Lee told the ceremony before the prize was due to be revealed.

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Back to militias, the chaotic Afghan way of war

Omid Wahidi was born after the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001. His childhood, for the most part, was peaceful. His family farmed eggplant, tomato and okra in the country’s north. He remembers foreign troops throwing books to him as he walked out of school.

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bKash suspends services for Evaly, Alesha Mart, eight other e-commerce firms

Mobile financial service provider bKash has temporarily blocked services for Evaly, Alesha Mart and eight other e-commerce platforms to protect customers.

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‘No one is safe’: extreme weather batters the wealthy world

Some of Europe’s richest countries lay in disarray this weekend as raging rivers burst through their banks in Germany and Belgium, submerging towns, slamming parked cars against trees and leaving Europeans shellshocked at the intensity of the destruction.

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Bangladesh must update colonial-era law to deliver justice for sexual assaults: experts

In January 2021, a schoolgirl died from “profuse bleeding” in Dhaka’s Kalabagan leading her father to bring rape and murder charges. Doctors later found wounds in her genitalia and rectum. But the wording in the post-mortem report that “external objects” had caused the wounds may have doomed her family’s chances of getting justice.

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As New York reopens, it looks for culture to lead the way

Broadway is planning to start performances of at least three dozen shows before the end of the year, but producers do not know if there will be enough tourists — who typically make up two-thirds of the audience — to support all of them.

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Biden promises to appeal immigration ruling, urges Congress to act

President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the Justice Department will appeal a "deeply disappointing" ruling by a federal judge in Texas on a programme that protects from deportation certain immigrants brought to the United States as children, while also urging Congress to take action.

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Daughter of Afghan envoy to Pakistan briefly kidnapped: government

The daughter of Afghanistan's ambassador to Pakistan was briefly kidnapped and mistreated by unknown assailants, the Afghan government said on Saturday.

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Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui captured the people behind the story

Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire on Friday covering the war in Afghanistan, was a largely self-taught photographer who scaled the heights of his profession while documenting wars, riots and human suffering.

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Jagannath University arranges buses to take students home for Eid in pandemic

The Jagannath University administration is using its own transport to send home students, who are marooned in Dhaka due to the coronavirus pandemic, ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha holiday.

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Court bars Evaly chairman, MD from travelling abroad amid ACC probe

A Dhaka court has barred Mohammad Rassel, the managing director of Evaly, and his wife Shamima Nasrin, also the chairman of the company, from travelling overseas amid an ongoing probe into charges of embezzlement against the e-commerce platform.

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হ্যাটট্রিক উপহার দিলেন সাবিনা খাতুন, কৃষ্ণা রানী সরকার ও শামসুন্নাহার জুনিয়র। মেয়েদের লিগে জামালপুর কাচারিপাড়া একাদশকে গোল বন্যায় ভাসিয়ে এক ম্যাচ হাতে রেখে মুকুট ধরে রাখা নিশ্চিত করল বসুন্ধরা কিংস।

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Shanta fund announces 20.5% dividend for FY21

Shanta Asset Management Ltd has declared 20.5 percent dividend for shareholders of Shanta First Income Unit Fund (SFIUF) in fiscal year 2020-21.

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Russian drama 'Unclenching the Fists' wins Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes

Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko's "Unclenching the Fists" triumphed in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes on Friday, winning the top prize in the more art-focused section of the film festival.

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In Pakistan, textbooks featuring Malala removed from bookstores

Provincial police in Pakistan this week raided bookshops and seized copies of an elementary school social studies textbook that include a picture of education rights activist Malala Yousafzai, a polarising figure in the country.

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Biden says Facebook, others 'killing people' by carrying COVID misinformation

US President Joe Biden on Friday said social media platforms like Facebook "are killing people" for allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform, as the administration continued criticising the company.

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Shimulia ferries, launches packed with homebound travellers as Eid exodus continues

unshiganj's Shimulia ferry terminal has been teeming with large crowds as south-bound travellers crammed ferries and launches to return home for the Eid-ul-Azha holidays.

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German floods raise the bar on extreme weather events

Days before roiling waters tore through western Germany, a European weather agency issued an “extreme” flood warning after detailed models showed storms that threatened to send rivers surging to levels that a German meteorologist said on Friday had not been seen in 500 or even 1,000 years.

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Teenager to fly with Bezos in inaugural space tourism flight

An 18-year-old physics student whose father heads an investment management firm is set to take the place of a person who put up $28 million in an auction to take part in the inaugural space tourism flight for billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company.

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Xiaomi trumps Apple to become world's No. 2 smartphone maker: Canalys

Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp overtook Apple Inc in the second quarter to become the world's No. 2 smartphone maker, market research firm Canalys said in a report on Thursday.

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US COVID-19 vaccine doses going to Bangladesh, Ukraine

The United States sent 2 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to Ukraine via the COVAX international vaccine-sharing program on Friday, a White House official said, and plans to send 3.5 million Moderna doses to Bangladesh over the weekend.

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In fighting climate change, what’s an individual to do?

Climate change can seem like such an enormous problem that individual actions would have little impact. Consider Europe’s wide-ranging proposals this week to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, including eliminating sales of new gas- and diesel-powered cars in the next 14 years.

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Delta COVID variant now dominant strain worldwide, US deaths surge: officials

The Delta variant of COVID-19 is now the dominant strain worldwide, accompanied by a surge of deaths around the United States almost entirely among unvaccinated people, US officials said on Friday.

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Sydney tightens lockdown as Australia's COVID-19 cases rise

The Australian city of Sydney on Saturday ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned non-essential retail and threatened fines for employers who make staff come into the office as new COVID-19 cases kept rising three weeks into a citywide lockdown.

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US judge blocks new applications to DACA program for 'dreamer' immigrants

A US federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked new applications to a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation but said the hundreds of thousands of people already enrolled would not be affected until further court rulings.

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Can Bangladesh break the cycle of COVID transmission with isolation, quarantine?

The government’s efforts to ensure self-isolation and quarantine has slowed own and public health experts fear this decline could make the surging coronavirus infection rate even more dangerous.

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Russian drama 'Unclenching the Fists' wins Cannes prize

Russian filmmaker Kira Kovalenko's "Unclenching the Fists" triumphed in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes on Friday, winning the top prize in the more art-focused section of the film festival.

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Thousands flee as flood waters breach Dutch defences

Thousands of people fled their homes in the southern Netherlands on Friday as rising waters broke through a dyke and swamped cities.

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Bangladesh to receive 2m more Sinopharm vaccine doses from China Saturday

Bangladesh is set to receive two million more doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China on Saturday.

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টটেনহ্যামেই থাকবেন কেইন, আশাবাদী নতুন কোচ

টটেনহ্যাম হটস্পার ফরোয়ার্ড হ্যারি কেইনের ক্লাব ছাড়ার সম্ভাবনা নিয়ে গুঞ্জন চলছে কয়েক মাস ধরে। মাঝে তিনি নিজেও ইঙ্গিত দেন নতুন চ্যালেঞ্জ নেওয়ার ব্যাপারে। তবে ক্লাবটির নতুন কোচ নুনো সান্তো ইংল্যান্ড অধিনায়ককে ধরে রাখতে মরিয়া।

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Pakistan military rescues 5 telecom workers kidnapped near Afghan border

Pakistan's military rescued five telecommunications workers kidnapped by Islamist militants last month close to the Afghan border in a series of operations in which two soldiers were killed, the military said on Friday.

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India orders 660m vaccine doses amidst warnings over shortages

The Indian government has ordered 660 million vaccine doses for August-December, its largest procurement, local news reports said on Friday, as state authorities and health experts warned that shortages could leave millions vulnerable if coronavirus infections surge again.

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Danish Siddiqui, Reuters photojournalist who won Pulitzer, dies in Afghan clashes

Danish Siddiqui, a chief photographer of Reuters who was based in Mumbai, was killed in the violence in Afghanistan, according to Indian and Afghan media outlets.

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Homebound travellers crowd Shimulia ferry port ahead of Eid

Thousands of people have gathered at Munshiganj’s Shimulia ferry terminal as the easing of lockdown restrictions has sparked a mass exodus from Dhaka ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

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World leaders dial in as New Zealand hosts special APEC meeting on pandemic

US President Joe Biden, Russia's Vladimir Putin, China's Xi Jinping and other world leaders meet virtually on Friday for the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC, seeking collective actions to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impacts.

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Traffic clogs Dhaka-Tangail highway as Eid exodus begins

As the government lifted travel restrictions ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, heavy traffic has hit the Dhaka-Tangail highway with homebound passengers travelling to the north.

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Udichi bombing: JMB militant executed in Gazipur jail

Asaduzzaman Chowdhury alias Panir, a member of the banned militant outfit JMB who was convicted over the bombing of the Udichi Shilpi Goshthi offices in Netrokona 16 years ago, has been hanged in a Gazipur jail.

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When utopia met dystopia, they were there

Akash Kapur and Auralice Graft are married now, but they first met in 1975 when they were just toddlers, racing around on wooden scooters, in a hut in utopia.

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When utopia met dystopia, they were there

Akash Kapur and Auralice Graft are married now, but they first met in 1975 when they were just toddlers, racing around on wooden scooters, in a hut in utopia.

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Australia races to stem COVID-19 outbreaks in Sydney, Melbourne

Australian officials urged people to obey lockdown measures that cover around 40% of the country's population as an outbreak of the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant again picked up pace on Friday.

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Microsoft says Israeli group sold tools to hack Windows

An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday, shedding light on the growing business of finding and selling tools to hack widely used software.

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Church in honour of Maradona opens its doors in Mexico

A pair of large vases bearing footballs stand at the entrance to Mexico's first Maradonian church and an image of Diego Maradona wearing a charro hat welcomes worshippers.

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Biden, Merkel stress friendship while agreeing to disagree on pipeline

US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed to disagree on Thursday about a Russian pipeline project that Washington opposes, while vowing to stand together against aggression from Moscow and anti-democratic action from Beijing.

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White House slams Facebook as conduit for COVID-19 misinformation

Facebook is not doing enough to stop the spread of false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Thursday, part of a new administration pushback on misinformation in the United States.

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Over 10m register for COVID vaccine in Bangladesh, 65% of them get at least one shot

More than 10.25 million people have signed up for coronavirus vaccines in Bangladesh and 65 percent of them have received at least one jab.

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NTRCA publishes results to recruit over 50,000 private institution teachers

The authorities have published the recruitment results to hire over 50,000 teachers at private secondary and higher-secondary institutions.

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Officials, Taliban strike ceasefire deal in western Afghanistan, says provincial governor

Government officials in a western Afghan province said on Thursday they had negotiated "an indefinite ceasefire" with the Taliban to prevent further attacks on the capital of the province.

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Momen meets India’s Jaishankar, China’s Wang Yi in Uzbekistan

AK Abdul Momen has met his Indian counterpart S Jaishankar and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi separately on the same day in Uzbekistan.

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Bangladesh forms committee to ensure factory safety inspections after deadly fire

The government has moved to ensure safe workplace environment at industrial and commercial units with instructions to take steps for a swift inspection of all plants in the wake of the deadly fire at a factory.

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J&J recalls sunscreens after carcinogen found in some sprays

Johnson & Johnson is voluntarily recalling five Neutrogena and Aveeno brand aerosol sunscreen products in the United States after detecting a cancer-causing chemical in some samples.

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A pandemic positive: Dhaka cattle farms do brisk Eid business as online sales pick up

The coronavirus pandemic has a lot of dark sides as it continues its deadly path in Bangladesh. Curious and unexpectedly positive side-effects of the abrupt shifts in people's behaviour in response to the COVID-19 crisis are making themselves visible. Cattle trade, for instance, has offered one bright side.

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As COVID rages in Myanmar, army hoards oxygen, doctors Say

First, the junta stole Myanmar’s elected leaders from the people. Now, doctors say, the generals have taken the oxygen that some citizens need to breathe.

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Bangladesh plans to hold SSC exams in Nov, HSC in Dec

Minister of Education Dipu Moni has announced that the Secondary School Certificate, or SSC, examinations will be held in November and the Higher Secondary Certificate, or HSC, examinations in December if the pandemic situation improves across the country.

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'Their goal is make me feel like I'm crazy,' tearful Britney Spears tells court

Singer Britney Spears on Wednesday won the right to choose her own lawyer to help her end a 13-year-long conservatorship and tearfully pleaded for the court to oust her father immediately from the role of controlling her business affairs.

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When Rembrandt met an elephant

In Rembrandt’s 1638 etching “Adam and Eve in Paradise,” there are two symbols of good and evil. A dragon hovers over the couple as they contemplate the poison apple, representing the danger of temptation. And in the background, a little, rotund elephant romps in the sunlight, a sign of chastity and grace. The meaning of these symbols, while obscure today, would have been recognisable in 17th-century Europe.

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Passenger vessels resume river service as lockdown ends

Passenger vessels have resumed running on river routes after three weeks as Bangladesh lifts lockdown restrictions for the pandemic ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

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S African govt plans troop surge to quell unrest

South Africa plans to deploy up to 25,000 soldiers in two provinces where security forces are struggling to quell days of looting, arson and violence, its defence minister told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, according to local news channel eNCA.

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Inside Facebook’s data wars

One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.

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China’s growth slows as pandemic fears persist

After a year of leading the global economy out of the pandemic slump, China’s growth is now starting to level off, as the world tries to digest whether the country’s recovery will continue or peter out.

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Indonesia bracing for worsening COVID-19 outbreak

Indonesia is bracing for its COVID-19 outbreak to get worse after a near vertical climb in cases, a senior minister said on Thursday, warning that infections had spread faster than anticipated due to the more virulent Delta variant.

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Afghan Taliban seize border crossing with Pakistan in major advance

Taliban fighters in Afghanistan seized control of a major border crossing with Pakistan on Wednesday, one of the most important objectives they have achieved so far during a rapid advance across the country as US forces pull out.

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Variant widens gulf between ‘two Americas’: vaccinated and unvaccinated

Even as many Americans celebrate the apparent waning of the pandemic, the thrum of concern over the so-called Delta variant grows steadily louder.

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Iran not ready for nuclear talks until Raisi takes over

Iran is not prepared to resume negotiations on coming back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal until Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi's administration has begun, a diplomatic source said on Wednesday.

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