What to expect from Trump-Kim take two

    Uri Friedman, Staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers global affairs/ The Atlantic If the first summit accomplished little, the second could be the same—but there are many wild cards. For roughly 40 minutes on Friday, a sleepy boutique hotel in Washington, D.C., burst to life as the epicenter of nuclear talks with North…

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      Thinking Differently – Opening Horizones

      Fayazuddin Ahmad writes for DOT :  Korail, one of the largest slums in Bangladesh, is located in Mohakhali, Dhaka. Most of the people who live in Korail have moved to the city from some of the parts where level of poverty is high in Bangladesh. Korail covers approximately 100 acres and is home to more…

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        Inspirational Peanut Seller ‘Tahmina Kotha’

        S.M. Fahim Tahmina Rahman, 23, is making a statement in various points in Dhanmondi by selling peanuts despite being a student of Lalmatia Women’s College. She is doing this by selling peanuts whilst wearing her usual attire of jeans, converse and navy blue shirt with white headphones dangling from her ears, reports Banglanews24. “Kotha”, as…

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          Report reveals how extremists narrowly apply scripture, distort interpretations

          Rubya Tripty A research report says, as Islamist extremist narrowly apply scripture, misrepresent the interpretation but to compete this misinterpret there is a huge shortage of counter-narrative literature. According to the report, Struggle Over Scripture: Charting the Rift Between Islamist Extremism and Mainstream Islam – released by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, there…

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            China sacks regional officials as vaccine scandal mounts

            AFP: China’s Communist Party has sacked a dozen provincial and local officials and vowed to punish a pharmaceutical firm over a vaccine scandal that inflamed public fears over the safety of domestically produced drugs. The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a…

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              Surfer Severely Bitten By Shark in Australia

              NDTV A surfer was severely mauled by a shark off Australia’s east coast, officials said Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks in recent months. The 36-year-old was surfing near Scotts Head Beach some 490 kilometres (300 miles) north of Sydney in the morning when he was bitten, New South Wales state police said….

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