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  Global step to achieve freedom from war

  Peter Langille | Updated at 12:00am on June 15, 2021

  HUMANITY’S urgent trillion-dollar question is what will stop war and violent conflict? Aside from vast human suffering and death, with ever-higher risks in war, people...

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  Covid-19 and freedom

  | Updated at 12:00am on June 14, 2021

  WHILE the Covid pandemic is and has been catastrophic in ways that we have yet to even begin to come to terms with — and...

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  Declining media freedom hurts democracy, society

  | Updated at 12:00am on May 04, 2021

  AMID continued legal harassment against journalists, with a few journalists are reeling behind bars, the World Press Freedom Day was observed in Bangladesh on Monday. ...

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  Searching for development as freedom

  Anis Chowdhury | Updated at 12:44am on March 26, 2021

  AT BIRTH Bangladesh was described as a ‘basket-case’ by Henry Kissinger, the most arrogant of all US secretaries of state. Two senior World Bank economists,...

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  30,000 homes for freedom fighters in the offing

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:41pm on March 11, 2021

  The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs is going to construct 30,000 homes for insolvent freedom fighters, birangonas, martyred freedom fighters’ family, and widows and children...

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  Freedom of thought and the death of ideologies

  Graham Peebles | Updated at 12:00am on March 10, 2021

  AMIDST widespread mistrust of authority and governing institutions (politicians, particularly governments, are the least trusted group in society), dogma, from whatever source, appears to be...

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  Julian Assange’s imprisonment exposes US myths about freedom

  | Updated at 12:00am on January 05, 2021

  PERSECUTION is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or...

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  China slams US national security allegations

  Agence France-Presse . Beijing | Updated at 12:18am on December 05, 2020

  Beijing on Friday lashed out at a claim by the US intelligence chief that China is the ‘greatest threat to democracy and freedom worldwide’, calling...

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  Young filmmakers should have freedom to choose subject

  Tanzil Rahaman | Updated at 11:10pm on October 20, 2020

  Renowned filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki said that young filmmakers should have the freedom to choose content otherwise they will struggle to develop intellectual diversity. ‘When...

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  6-pt demand turned demand for freedom: PM

  Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka | Updated at 01:05am on June 08, 2020

  Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said the historic six-point demand declared by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was blossomed before the Bengalis as their demand of...