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  Vaccine xenophobia must end

  Faten Taki, Gunisha Kaur and Stephen Yale-Loher | Updated at 12:00am on July 29, 2021

  FOR millions of refugees and asylum-seekers around the world, death may seem more merciful than what they have to endure before, during, and after migration, especially during a pandemic that has...

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  Hurried approval raises questions

  Farida Akhter and Afsar Jafri | Updated at 12:00am on July 29, 2021

  The controversial genetically modified Golden rice, has surfaced again with the Philippines Rice Research Institute rushing through the commercial clearance despite popular opposition to GR not only in the Philippines but also in Bangladesh, Indonesia and...

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  Committee to facilitate international trade dispute welcome

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 29, 2021

  THE formation of a high-powered committee by the commerce ministry to effectively resolve international trade disputes is welcome as trade bodies in Bangladesh have for long demanded an international dispute settlement cell and the...

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  Govt must stand off harmful CRB development plan

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 29, 2021

  THE government’s move to build a hospital complex — a 100-seat medical college, a 500-bed hospital and a nursing institute — spanning about 1.43 hectares of land in the area of the Central Railway Building, home to the...

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  Bless the traitors

  Chris Hedges | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  DANIEL Hale, an active-duty Air Force intelligence analyst, stood in the Occupy encampment in Zuccotti Park in October 2011 in his military uniform. He held up a sign that read ‘Free Bradley Manning,’ who had not yet...

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  Afghanistan face chaos?

  Saeed Naqvi | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  HAVING kept a steady gaze on Kabul at least since Noor Mohammad Taraki’s press conference in April 1978 when Khalq and Parcham, the two Communist parties of Afghanistan, came to power, I am kicking myself for...

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  Strategies and their implications

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  TWO strategies are followed globally to control Covid-19. Lockdown and other restrictions are one of the two implemented universally and the natural herd immunity along with other measures touted in Sweden. Some developing...

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  Indiscriminate sand extraction must stop

  | Updated at 12:00am on July 28, 2021

  INDISCRIMINATE sand lifting and soil cutting along most of the rivers made the headlines many times in the past, but the practice has continued, destroying the natural flow of water and the livelihood of hundreds of...