Hodeidah truce, prisoner swap timelines pushed back: UN

    Arab News: The UN envoy for Yemen said Monday the expected timeline for a truce in the flashpoint city of Hodeidah and a prisoner swap between warring parties had been pushed back. Envoy Martin Griffiths hosted hard-won peace talks between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and rival Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Sweden last month. The two…

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      WildTeam shares knowledge with school children

      UNB: Members of Wild-Team, a wildlife conservation organization, arranged a knowledge sharing programme with the middle school students of American International School of Dhaka. They also shared the organization information and activities with the students in the school gymnasium as a part of a fair of non-government organizations. of Bangladesh from different areas, said a…

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        Inside the far-out world of dream therapy

        Tessa Love/Medium.com More psychologists are incorporating dream analysis into their practices — and patients are seeing real-world payoff Nubia DuVall Wilson is in a frenzy. She’s packing up her entire home, and she needs to do it fast. She has only one suitcase, which she’s shoving all of her belongings into as quickly as possible….

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          UN: 21 Afghan civilians killed in separate airstrikes

          AP: The UN mission in Afghanistan says 21 civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes over the weekend. It says in a statement Wednesday that nine civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in a Saturday airstrike in the northeastern Kapisa province, in an area where Afghan forces were battling the Taliban. Another statement cited…

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            Discussion on National Mourning Day by the Water Development Board

            A discussion on the National Mourning Day and the 43rd anniversary of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh MujirburRahman was held by the Bangladesh Water Development Board BangabandhuParishad. Minister of Water Resources Anwar HossainManju gave a speech as chief guest of the event. State Minister of the Ministry of Water Resources Mohammad Nazrul Islam…

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              Blast rocks Kabul govt compound in ongoing attack

              AL Jazeera Militants detonated a car bomb before storming a Kabul government compound in an ongoing attack Monday, officials and witnesses said, in the latest violence to rock the Afghan capital. A number of  gunmen have entered the compound where the Ministry of Public Works and an office of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs,…

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                Australia ramps up aid to farmers as drought bites

                AFP: Financial aid for drought-stricken Aus-tralian farmers will be increased to Aus$1.8 billion (US$1.3 billion) as they endure the driest conditions in half a century, the prime minister said Sunday. Farmers in eastern states are struggling with extreme aridity that has turned green pastures into dust, with the economies of local towns also suffering. “I…

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