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Monday, June 24, 2002
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Monday, June 24, 2002
National
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on
Sunday said they would welcome the opposition’s joining the parliament
today. Addressing the parliamentary party meeting at Sangsad Bhaban
last night, Begum Khaleda Zia advised the lawmakers of her party to
behave well with the opposition Awami League MPs who are scheduled to
attend the House today, ending an eight-month boycott.
Expressing her deep concern over the future of parliamentary democracy
in Bangladesh, Leader of the Opposition in the parliament and Awami
League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday told the party’s founding
anniversary rally that her party would join the Jatiya Sangsad today
(Monday) to protect the people's interest.
The High Court on Sunday issued a rule asking the government to explain
why the Offences Disrupting Law and Order (Speedy Trial) Act 2002,
"being inherently borne to arbitrary and discriminatory application",
should not be declared "unconstitutional and void".
Foreign Minister Morshed Khan will lead a four-member Bangladesh
delegation to the 29th session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign
Ministers in Sudan, beginning tomorrow (June 25). Other members of the
delegation will be the Bangladesh Ambassadors in Moscow and Cairo and
the Director General (International Organisations) in the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs.
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Neighbour
President Hamid Karzai called for a
joint operation by Afghanistan, the United States and Pakistan to capture
Osama bin Laden, who he believes is alive and in hiding.
At least 50 Maoist rebels were gunned down in a clash with government
soldiers in western Nepal, defence officials said Sunday.
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International
Two mammoth wildfires raged unchecked
through paper-dry forest of Arizona in the United States of America
Sunday, threatening to join in a 50-mile-long line of flames and burn
right into Show Low town of 7,700 people.
Israel considered expelling the families of suicide bombers and other
tough measures to crack down on attacks as its army expanded its West Bank
operations after seizing control of most major towns. The army rolled into
a village near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, triggering clashes
that left a Palestinian policemen dead and four local residents wounded,
Palestinian security sources said
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri
are alive and the group is "going to launch attacks against America,"
according to audiotaped remarks by an al Qaeda spokesman aired Sunday, CNN
reports from Doha, Qatar.
A wave of car bomb attacks and a protest by anti-globalisation
demonstrators have marked the close of a summit of EU leaders in Spain.
European Union (EU) leaders have launched a crackdown on illegal
immigration to allay fears of voters at an influx of Third World migrants,
report agencies. But at a two-day summit in the Spanish city of Seville,
overshadowed by a wave of five Basque separatist bombs elsewhere in Spain,
the 15 leaders postponed key decisions on reforming their bloc and paying
for its eastward enlargement
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad went on unscheduled leave Sunday
after stunning the nation with a tearful resignation as ruling party
leader and then agreeing to stay on. Pictures of an anguished and weeping
Mahathir, 76, were splashed on the front pages of all local newspapers, as
pundits grappled to understand the astonishing behaviour of a man who has
led the country for 21 years.
Shooting and bombings blamed on Islamic militants have killed seven people
and injured 35 others in two days in Algeria, newspapers reported
Saturday.
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Sports
New Zealand took
control of the first test against West Indies Saturday, moving 234 runs
ahead with nine second -innings wickets in hand by the close of the second
day.
Leading Argentine daily la Nacion said in a column Sunday that the 2002
World Cup should be declared null and void because of bad refereeing.
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