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South Sudan explosion: ‘At least 10 dead’ in grenade attack

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured in South Sudan after a hand grenade exploded in a nightclub packed with revellers. Some 500 people were dancing at a venue in the western city of Yambio on Friday when an attacker threw the missile into the crowd, according to police commissioner James Monday Enoka.   “We found ...

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Indonesia tsunami: Death toll rises to over 1,200

The number of people known to have died in Indonesia in Friday’s earthquake and tsunami has risen to more than 1,200, the country’s disaster response agency says. The death toll jumped on Tuesday from a previous confirmed figure of 844.   The 7.5-magnitude quake struck just off the central island of Sulawesi, setting off a tsunami that hit the coastal ...

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Philip Hammond vows to stick with austerity in conference speech

Chancellor also says UK may soon have to tax internet firms such as Amazon and Google Philip Hammond has warned the Treasury’s austerity programme will come under attack from what he called “populists and demagogues” among Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters, but claimed it would retain the backing of the British people. The chancellor said he would withhold funds to protect the ...

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Jalalabad Association UK formed its full executive committee

Bangla Mirror Desk: Jalalabad Association UK has formed its full executive committee enhance and embolden the relationships among all Non-resident Bangladeshis of Sylhet division. In order to form the full committee the organisation held a meeting on 26th of September in a restaurant in East London and declared the committee naming Muhibur Rahman Muhib as President, Aminul Haque Zilu as ...

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Ecology price – climate change

Fatema Miah: Our ecology is essential for our living; provides vegetation, photosynthesise carbondioxide into oxygen. Our Climate experts now have thought about to put a price on our ecology to compensate to the vaulnebles and those most effected. Our ecology has come under threat, and there have been damages caused to our ecology diversity vastly  since our western modernised Industrialisation ...

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New blue UK passports change affects price and lost its pride

Rayhan Ahmed Topader: The passport manufacturer De La Rue is set to announce it will challenge the government over its decision to manufacture new blue British passports in France. The company will formally launch an appeal against the decision to award the £490m contract to the French-Dutch firm Gemalto on the grounds that it believes it had the best offer ...

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Formation of Pakistan

Fatema Miah: Chapter 2, my book –  Unspoken. The  formation of Pakistan was in partial blindness of greed and ego, together with total inconsideration. A meaningless name was just randomly uttered and announced, by obliterating origins and ethnicities, by denying identification of civilizations, equally as well as being hypocritical to Islam. Therefore, the entire Country Pakistan is bearing the results ...

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Nobel Prize in Medicine to American, Japanese

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to James Allison of the University of Texas and Tasuku Honjo of Japan’s Kyoto University for discovering a form of cancer therapy.   The 9 million-kronor ($1.01 million) prize was announced Monday by the Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute.  This year’s Nobel Prize recipients will be revealed starting Monday with ...

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4 remain in hospital after Pacific lagoon plane crash

An airline says four passengers remain hospitalized after one of its planes crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia last week.   Air Niugini said in a statement Monday that the four are in stable condition at a Chuuk island hospital and would soon be taken to Guam for further treatment.  The Papua New Guinea national carrier says the four ...

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UK Brexit chief says no deal better than being tied to bloc

Birmingham, Oct 1 : Britain’s chief Brexit minister is warning the European Union, and his divided party, that the country will leave the bloc without a deal rather than accept close adherence to its rules and obligations. Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab will tell Conservative Party members on Monday that if the EU tries to “lock us in via the back ...

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