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  Rethinking the World Trade Organisation

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2019

  The global trading system has long served the interests of global corporations over developing countries. It’s time for a more inclusive form of multilateralism, writes...

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  Calling Assange a narcissist misses the point

  by Patrick Cockburn | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2019

  ‘OH YEAH, look at those dead bastards’ and ‘ha, ha, I hit them’ say the pilots of a US Apache helicopter in jubilant conversation as...

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  Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning

  by Edward Curtin | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2019

  ‘ABOUT suffering they were never wrong’, wrote WH Auden in the poem ‘Musée Des Beaux Arts.’These lines occurred to me last week when all eyes...

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  Deplorable govt failure in migrant worker rights

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2019

  BANGLADESH was the third highest recipient of remittances in South Asia in 2018 and the 11th highest globally. In 2018, it received $15.5 billion in...

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  Govt must guard the unguarded level crossings

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 16, 2019

  THE death of three in an accident in an unauthorised, and therefore unguarded, level crossing in Sirajganj on Saturday is shocking. A train hit a...

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  Jallianwala and Jinnah

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2019

  THE massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar was executed on April 13, 1919 — a hundred years ago today. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah sent his telegram of protest to the secretary of state of India,...

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  Priyanka preparing UP for 2022, Rahul the Congress for 2024

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2019

  IT IS true that there are no permanent enemies or permanent friends in politics....

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  Assange: a martyr to the truth

  John Scales Avery | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2019

  ACCORDING to the Nuremberg Principles, the citizens of a country have a responsibility for the crimes that their governments commit....

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  The Assange arrest is a warning from history

  John Pilger | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2019

  THE glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right. Muscle against the...

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  Sexual harassment still not taken seriously in Bangladesh

  | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2019

  WOMEN in public universities have demanded institutional steps against sexual harassment since the early 1990s. In 2009, the High Court Division ordered the mandatory institution...