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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 3:25 am ET
The first of thousands of Bangladeshi border guards accused of staging a deadly mutiny in February will go on trial this week, an official said Monday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 1:39 pm ET
Police in southwestern Bangladesh on Saturday said they had arrested 14 suspected Islamic militants who had links to a banned group.
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Time Magazine - Sat Nov 21, 4:48 am ET
Five men convicted of assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh'sfirst President, in 1975 will finally be executed after losing their finalappeal. Will it bring healing to a divided nation?
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Amnesty International - Sat Nov 21, 3:49 am ET
Amnesty International calls on the Bangladesh authorities not to carry out death sentences against five men found guilty of the killing 34 years ago of then President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and members of his family
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 5:14 am ET
The weaker of two Bangladeshi twins separated from her conjoined sister in landmark surgery in Australia woke fully from a coma Saturday -- and blew her guardian a raspberry.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 1:08 am ET
The Bangladesh Supreme Court rejected Thursday an appeal by five former army officers convicted of killing the nation's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a coup more than 30 years ago.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 12:30 am ET
The Supreme Court rejected final appeals Thursday by five former soldiers sentenced to death in the 1975 killing of Bangladesh's independence leader in a military coup, a government attorney said.
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The Norman Transcript - Fri Nov 20, 1:27 am ET
Two University of Oklahoma journalism and mass communication students will travel to Bangladesh over the winter break to help train Bangladeshi journalists.The students, Alexandria Page and Hailey Branson, will work alongside Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication faculty Jan.
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IRIN - Fri Nov 20, 4:45 am ET
BARGUNA, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Two years after Cyclone Sidr hit the southern coastal districts of Bangladesh, many of the survivors are still homeless and at severe risk from further disasters, officials say.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 18, 11:19 pm ET
A Bangladesh court was due to decide Thursday whether the convicted killers of the nation's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, assassinated more than three decades ago, should go to the gallows.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Sat Nov 21, 10:05 pm ET
Twins Trishna (left) and Krishna, Bangladeshi twins joined at the head, are photographed in August. (AP) DHAKA, Bangladesh — The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 19, 1:56 am ET
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bangladesh’s Supreme Court upheld death sentences on five army officers for assassinating Sheikh Mujibur Rahman , the country’s first president, in 1975.
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First Coast News - Sun Nov 22, 10:19 am ET
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - The mother who gave up conjoined Bangladeshi newborn twins for adoption said Saturday she is overjoyed the toddlers have been successfully separated and wants them to grow up in Australia.
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Blogcritics.org - Thu Nov 19, 8:17 pm ET
Man-made ponds and rice fields irrigated using groundwater may be responsible for arsenic contamination of groundwater in Bangladesh.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 18, 7:45 pm ET
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Bangladesh put its security forces on alert before the Supreme Court rules today on an appeal by five army officers sentenced to death for assassinating the country’s first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.