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Wednesday, July
09, 2003
National
The Speedy
Trial Tribunal in Dhaka yesterday convicted five persons to die for
killing Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal leader Mizanur Rahman alias Mizan at Rampura
in the city on May 29 last year.
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed last night
suggested action against Leader of the Opposition Sheikh Hasina under the
House Privilege Committee for her comments against Members of Parliament.
The Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) decided yesterday not to quit the Jatiya
Sangsad following a meeting with Prime Minister Khaleda Zia who assured it
of representation to the government. "We had a lengthy and very fruitful
discussion with the prime minister...We are quite happy with her words and
now we have no anguish," said Fazlul Haq Amini MP, chairman of an IOJ
faction. "So, I have withdrawn my decision to resign from parliament and
will join session from Thursday," he said.
Heavy rains and rushing upstream water caused serious erosion in Sirajganj
district, but the flood situation in the central part of the country
remained by and large static yesterday. Elsewhere, the situation was
improving, but people ran short of food, medicine and drinking water,
while many abandoned their houses in the face of erosion.
Saudi Arabia yesterday threw its weight behind Bangladesh's candidature
for the post of secretary general of the Organisation of Islamic
Conference (OIC). Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz extended the
support when Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's special envoy and Health and
Family Welfare Minister Dr Kandaker Mosharraf Hossain called on him at Al
Salam Palace in Jeddah yesterday afternoon.
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Neighbour
Iran plunged
into shock and grief Tuesday after conjoined Iranian twins died during
high-risk surgery aimed at giving them a chance to lead separate lives.
The suffering and bravery of the sisters captivated Iran.
Pakistan closed its embassy in Kabul Tuesday after rowdy demonstrators
protesting alleged border incursions attacked and ransacked the mission
building. However, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan telephoned
Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf and apologised for attack on
Pakistan's embassy in Kabul.
Nearly 20 people have been killed by landslides that have followed
torrential rain in India and Pakistan. Assam's government expects "more
devastation" this week. The floods have also affected life in Nepal and
Bangladesh.
One of the greatest poets of the Bengali language, Subhas Mukhopadhyay,
has died in Calcutta at the age of 84. A left-wing activist in his youth,
he wrote mostly about the life of the industrial labourer and the peasant.
He spent his last days battling severe kidney and heart ailments.
Separatist rebels in the northwestern Indian state of Assam killed a
manager of the Lengrijan tea estate in the district of Karbi Anglong. The
police suspected members of the Dima Halong Daoga rebel group, which
demands a separate homeland for the Dimasa tribe, of carrying out the
attack. Earlier, the rebel group demanded about $10,000 from the tea
plantation but manager Surendra Sharma refused to pay.
Heavy floods in eastern China have killed 13 people and left more than a
million stranded, China's official Xinhua news agency has reported. It
said the three provinces along the rain-swollen Huai River - Anhui,
Jiangsu and Henan - were the most affected.
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International
A passenger
plane has crashed in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on
board. Only one passenger, a small child, survived the crash. The dead
include 105 passengers and 10 crew members.
Two Middle Eastern television channels on Tuesday broadcast what they said
was a new audio tape by ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. "I appeal
to you, O Iraqis, Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, Shia or Sunni, Christians or
Sunnis, it is your duty to expel the aggressor invaders from our country,"
the tape said, according to a transmission by Lebanon's Al Hayat-LBC
channel.
Three American soldiers have been killed in attacks in Baghdad in a
24-hour period. Four other US soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack on
their convoy in the restive town of Ramadi west of Baghdad Tuesday.
The Pentagon on Tuesday raised its count of Americans killed by hostile
fire in Iraq since the war began in March to 143, a figure that
approaches the 147 killed in the 1991 Gulf War. When President Bush
declared major combat operations had ended on May 1, the number killed in
action stood at 114. Since then, guerrilla-style attacks have taken
another 29 American lives, and Bush as well as U.S. military commanders
have said the war is not yet over.
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved $369 billion in
defense funds for the next fiscal year and a Senate panel advanced a
similar measure as the Republican-led U.S. Congress moved to give
President Bush largely what he wanted for the Pentagon.
US military experts started a mission to assess humanitarian and security
needs in Liberia as President George W. Bush pledged to take part in peace
efforts in the West African nation without specifically offering to send
troops.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has warned US President George W. Bush
not to interfere in his country's affairs during a visit to Africa next
week. Mr Mugabe told supporters that if Mr Bush told African countries how
to run their affairs, he would be spurned.
Heavy floods in eastern China have killed 13 people and left more than a
million stranded, China's official Xinhua news agency has reported. It
said the three provinces along the rain-swollen Huai River - Anhui,
Jiangsu and Henan - were the most affected.
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