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MNA International Desk: Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called for an escalating series of strikes to force President Nicolás Maduro to relinquish power. Mr Guaidó urged public employees to act on Thursday, saying the stoppages would lead to a general strike. A woman was killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in Caracas on Wednesday, reports say. Mr Maduro meanwhile dismissed suggestions he had been ready to flee and accused the US of directing a coup. Those involved would be punished, he said. Tensions over the crisis are also rising between the US and Russia. US Secretary of ...

MNA National Desk: Detectives in separate drives arrested two people including a local Awami League leader from Shenbagh and Sadar upazilas early Thursday over the ‘gang-rape’ of a woman after Sunday’s election. The arrestees are Ruhul Amin, former chairman of Charjubli union parishad and also the organising secretary of union unit of Awami League and another Bechu Mia, reports news agency. Md Ilias Sharif, superintendent of district police said a team of Detective Branch (DB) arrested Ruhul Amin from a poultry farm in Sadar upazila in the dead of night. Later, the team conducted another drive at a brick kiln ...

MNA Features Desk: The 4th death anniversary of former president of Bangladesh and veteran leader, Zillur Rahman, also former general secretary of Awami League, is being observed today with high respect to this glorious leader. He breathed his last at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on March 20, 2013. Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader urged activists and leaders of all party affiliate organizations to observe the day with due respect. The party also paid tribute to the great leader at his grave at 8am today. Different social and political organizations paid floral tribute at the Dhaka’s Banani graveyard where ...

MNA National Desk: Abul Hossain, a local leader of the ruling Awami League, has been shot dead in Noakhali Sadar Upazila. The deceased was the president of party’s Ward No. 4 committee of Andarchar Union. Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Officer In-Charge (OC) of Sudharam Police station said that, Abul Hossain was shot dead around midnight on Saturday at Banglabazar area of Andarchar Union. He was returning to his home on foot when he was brutally shot by the assailants, the OC added. Local people rushed Abul Hossain to the Noakhali Sadar Hospital. The on-duty doctors there declared him dead. Mohammed Salim ...

MNA Feature Desk: Today is Nelson Mandela Day and tribute will be paid for Madiba all around the world. On this day, the world will remember the works of the greatest leader of the modern era. “What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.” – Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela International Day (or Mandela Day) is an annual international day in honor of Nelson Mandela, celebrated each year on 18 July, Mandela’s birthday. The ...

MNA International Desk: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, in an online audio message, pledged commitment to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was selected last month after his predecessor was killed in a US drone strike. The veteran Islamist militant became al Qaeda’s leader after U.S. Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011, and he is thought to be hiding in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, having been based there since the late 1990s. “As leader of the al Qaeda organization for jihad, I extend my pledge of allegiance once again, the approach of Osama to ...

MNA International Desk: The Afghan Taliban have appointed Haibatullah Akhunzada as their new leader, a spokesman has said in a statement that gave the group’s first official confirmation that former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been killed in a US drone strike. Haibatullah is a former head of the Taliban’s judiciary and was deputy to Mansour. In a statement sent to media, the insurgent group said Haibatullah was chosen at a meeting of Taliban leaders, which was believed to have been held in Pakistan. US drones killed Mansour on Saturday in a remote area in Pakistan along the border with ...