Sweden’s ex-ambassador to China is tried over secret meetings on detainee
The daughter has described the experience as “threatening,” and Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs later said it had no knowledge of the meetings. He was spirited way to China from Thailand in 2015 while at his vacation home and accused by Chinese state news media outlets of publishing books that slurred Communist Party leaders. Earlier this year, Chinese authorities said he had been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of providing intelligence overseas. But the prosecutor, Henrik Olin, told Swedish public radio that this did not rule out that the men had also been representing the interests of the Chinese state. The charges against Lindstedt could bring a maximum prison sentence of two years under the Swedish Penal Code if she is convicted.
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June 05, 2020 22:52 UTC
IMF halves Bangladesh GDP growth forecast with recovery after September
Gradual recovery is projected to begin in the second quarter of FY21, the global lender said in a report dated May 21 but published on Jun 3. GDP growth is projected at 3.8 percent for FY20, about 3.5 percentage points less than the projection the IMF had forecast before the pandemic had begun, according to the report. Bangladesh is experiencing the largest one-year decline in the last three decades as the growth is projected to drop by about 4.5 percentage points relative to the previous financial year, the report said. As a result, an immediate external financing gap of about $2.9 billion has emerged along a fiscal financing gap of about $2.8 billion, the IMF said. To help Bangladesh tackle the coronavirus crisis, the Executive Board of the IMF on May 29 approved a disbursement of $244 million under the Rapid Credit Facility and a purchase of $488 million under the Rapid Financing Instrument.
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June 05, 2020 22:52 UTC
LORENZEN | The Cornell Republicans Lied to Us
In an October Letter to the Editor, the E-Board of the Cornell Republicans lied to readers of The Sun. It pains me greatly to say this, especially as I personally know and hold considerable respect for several members of the Cornell Republicans. Their silence has told us something though — their commitment to good-faith debate and free discourse is a sham. I disagree with Cornell Republicans vehemently on nearly everything, but I truly would like to respect them, to value their opinions even in disagreement. Alternatively, Cornell Republicans could simply apologize and retract their earlier commitment to good-faith debate.
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June 05, 2020 22:52 UTC
Longtime Auto Road GM forging new trail
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June 05, 2020 22:30 UTC
Bangladesh 20th among countries with most coronavirus cases
The official death toll from the novel coronavirus infection in Bangladesh also climbed to 811 after 30 new fatalities were registered in a daily count. Let’s see who win – the virus or we.”Since the detection of the first case on Mar 8, Bangladesh has conducted coronavirus tests on total 372,065 samples. The US tops the list of affected countries with nearly 1.9 million cases and more than 108,000 deaths. It took 11 more days for Bangladesh to register the next 10,000 coronavirus cases. Health experts, however, fear the number of coronavirus infections and deaths from COVID-19 could be much higher if it had been possible to run more tests.
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June 05, 2020 20:15 UTC
Sorry consumes couple's lives after son's suicide
× Register for more free articles Stay logged in to skip the surveys Log in Sign up {{featured_button_text}}DEAR ABBY: My wife and I lost our son to suicide a few years ago. I no longer feel there's any reason to continue on this earth. I want to die because I feel the world would be a better place without my sorrowful self taking up resources. I have sought help ever since we lost my son, and have been taking all kinds of medication that I no longer want to take. Because you can't get the thought of suicide out of your mind, it is very important that you receive more help than I can give you in a letter.
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June 05, 2020 18:56 UTC
Bangladesh private sector lending growth dips to a decade low
The Bangladesh Bank set the target for private sector credits in 2019-20 at 14.8 percent in the monetary policy. “Investment is dropping in both public and private sectors affecting the private sector lending due to the coronavirus crisis,” researcher Ahsan H Mansur told bdnews24.com on Friday after the central bank published the data. Mansur said low growth in private sector lending means less investment and employment. Flow of loans to the private sector grew 11.32 percent in 2018-19 while government borrowing posted a 19.37 percent growth. The central bank set the government borrowing target at 24.3 percent and revised it up to 56 percent.
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June 05, 2020 18:45 UTC
AstraZeneca blood cancer drug shows signs of helping COVID-19 patients
Results from the preliminary research involving 19 patients, which was backed by the United States National Institutes of Health, encouraged the British drugmaker to explore the drug's new use in a wider clinical trial announced in April. Eight patients were on mechanical ventilation when they were put on Calquence, and four of them could be discharged, though one died of pulmonary embolism. "These patients were in a very unstable situation, they would have had a dire prognosis ... Within one to three days the majority of these patients got better in terms of ventilation and oxygen needs," Astra's Baselga told Reuters. In its approved use, Calquence competes with AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson’s established treatment Imbruvica as a treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, a common type of adult leukaemia.
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June 05, 2020 18:00 UTC
DGHS DG: PM approved recruitment of 3,000 medical technologists
A health worker in a protective gown checks a man for signs of the novel coronavirus infection Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneLast month, the government recruited some 2,000 physicians and 5,054 nurses to fight the coronavirus pandemicPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina has approved a proposal for recruitment of 3,000 new medical technologists and technicians in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. “In view of the Covid-19 outbreak, the Health Services Division on Thursday sent a proposal regarding appointment of 3,000 new medical technologists and technicians to the honourable prime minister who immediately endorsed it [proposal],” Director General of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Abul Kalam Azad said on Friday. Of them, Azad said, the number of medical technologists is 1200, while the technicians are 1800, reports BSS. The public administration ministry, the health ministry, and the DGHS will now jointly start recruitment process of the 3000 medical technologists and technicians to further improve healthcare services for the Covid-19 patients, he added. Last month, the government recruited some 2,000 physicians and 5,054 nurses to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
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June 05, 2020 16:52 UTC
Police's crime investigators start another case against 33 over Libya killings
The crime investigation wing brought human trafficking and homicide charges against them under the Section 302/326/34 of the Penal Code, including Section 6/7/8/10 of the Human Trafficking Prevention and Control Act-2012. The victims were trafficked to Libya with false promises of well-paid jobs through international routes in exchange for various sums of money. They were subsequently forced into hard labour for little money, according to the case dossier. Earlier on Tuesday, CID started a case over the incident against 38 people with Paltan police under the anti-trafficking law. As the level of torture increased, one of the Sudanese victims killed a local human trafficker in self-defence.
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June 05, 2020 16:18 UTC
Wear masks in public says WHO, in update of COVID-19 advice
"Masks on their own will not protect you from COVID-19," the WHO's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters at a briefing. The WHO's technical lead expert on COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, said in a Reuters interview: "We are advising governments to encourage that the general public wear a mask. It had always recommended that medical masks be worn by people who are sick and by those caring for them. The UN agency's advice that all healthcare workers dealing with COVID-19 patients, or with suspected cases of the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus, should wear medical masks remains the same, Van Kerkhove said. But the advice has been broadened to recommend staff coming into contact with any patients or residents in clinics, hospitals, care homes and long-term residential facilities should also wear masks at all times, she said.
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June 05, 2020 16:18 UTC
Chattogram MP Mustafizur, his family test positive for COVID-19
Three domestic helps at the MP’s home in the port city’s Nasirabad also tested positive. All 11 were doing well and receiving healthcare at home following doctor’s advice, the Awami League MP’s aide Mostafizur Rahman Russell told bdnews24.com on Friday. The test results came back on Tuesday. Mustafizur’s family members who have caught the respiratory disease are his wife, three daughters, a granddaughter, and a son-in-law. Mustafizur is the first MP from Chattogram to have caught the virusChattogram Civil Surgeon Sheikh Fazle Rabbi said the MP from Chattigram-16 seat had not contacted them for healthcare.
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June 05, 2020 16:07 UTC
The Latest: Pakistan PM avoids new lockdown, daily cases up
North Macedonia’s government has imposed almost a near-complete curfew in four regions that started at 9 p.m. Thursday and will end at 5 a.m. Monday. People can only leave their houses to go to a hospital or pharmacy. Filipce said he is confident that the new spike in infections is under control and announced that authorities would discuss on Sunday the next steps for dealing with the epidemic. In a press briefing on Friday, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said people over age 60 or those with underlying medical conditions should wear a medical mask in situations where social distancing cannot be maintained. WHO has previously only recommended that health care workers, those sickened by COVID-19 and their care givers wear masks.
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June 05, 2020 16:07 UTC
'Your Pain Is My Pain': global anti-racism protests rage
Floyd’s death, after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck while detaining him, has convulsed the United States. The largest demonstrations elsewhere on Friday appeared to be in Germany, where more than 10,000 people gathered in Frankfurt and Hamburg, according to Reuters journalists. Many raised hands in the air and held banners with slogans such as: “Your Pain Is My Pain, Your Fight Is My Fight”. In London’s Trafalgar Square, dozens took to one knee in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Ignoring one-metre social distancing guidelines but wearing masks, several thousand people gathered in front of the Norwegian parliament and hundreds outside the US Embassy.
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June 05, 2020 15:56 UTC