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An under-trial prisoner died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Thursday.  The deceased, Harun Sheikh, 50, son of Kashem Sheikh of Rajpara area of the city, was an accused in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act, reports UNB. Senior Jail Super Halima Khatun of Rajshahi Central Jail, said Harun had been suffering from asthma and he was admitted to the hospital on January 15 where he died around 12:30 pm on Thursday.  ....

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Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and her husband, award-winning actor George, are expecting twins, US media report. The babies are due in June, according to CBS's The Talk host Julie Chen. Another source close to the couple, quoted by People, said they were "very happy". The Clooneys' representatives have not yet commented. The couple married in Venice in 2014 with a star-studded list of guests who included Matt Damon and Bill Murray. Rumours that they might be expecting began to circulate last month when Clooney was spotted wearing a loose-fitting dress. Mr Clooney, 55, has starred in numerous Hollywood films and has won two Academy Awards. Mrs Clooney, 39, has represented a number of high profile figures, including former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and Australian Wikileaks founder Julian Assange; according to BBC.....

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in the US on Thursday for key economic and security talks with President Donald Trump, reports BBC. They plan to discuss job creation and Japanese investment following recent criticism from Trump. The US president threatened to impose tariffs on Japanese carmaker Toyota for building a plant in Mexico last month. The two leaders will also discuss the US military commitment to Japan, a key security linchpin in Asia Pacific. Last month Trump had tweeted that Toyota was planning to build a plant in Mexico that would produce cars bound for the US, saying "NO WAY! Build Plant in US or pay big border tax." Toyota responded saying their production and employment levels would not decrease. Trump has also previously criticised Japan for not buying enough US-made cars, in comments reminiscent of the 1980s trade friction between the two economic powerhouses. Abe is also expected to discuss trade issues with Trump, who withdrew the US from the controversial 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact which Abe had lobbied hard for. Following their talks, Trump will be hosting Abe and his wife at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, where the two leaders will play golf. They last met in November when Abe visited Trump in New York shortly after the latter won the presidential election. Abe is the second foreign leader Trump has met since taking office, after Britain's Theresa May.....

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A small group of protesters greeted a ship from Malaysia when it docked in Myanmar on Thursday carrying aid bound for the troubled state of Rakhine, where many members of the stateless Rohingya Muslim minority live. The ship docked on the outskirts of the commercial hub, Yangon, where it was due to unload 500 tonnes of food and emergency supplies, with the rest of its 2,200 ton cargo bound for southeast Bangladesh. Almost 69,000 Rohingyas have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in the past four months from a security force crackdown, reports Reuters. The aid shipment from mostly Muslim Malaysia has stirred opposition in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where many see the Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. Malaysia has been an outspoken critic of Myanmar over the crisis in Rakhine state, which erupted after nine policemen were killed in attacks on border posts on Oct 9 claimed by Rohingya militants. UN officials working with refugees in Bangladesh have told Reuters the death toll in the Myanmar security sweep could be more than 1,000. Refugees have given journalists, human rights groups and UN investigators detailed accounts of troops firing on civilians, burning villages, beatings, detention and rape. The Myanmar government, led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, has rejected the reports of abuse, saying many were fabricated. It insists the strife is an internal matter. Underlining the controversy surrounding the aid for the Rohingya, several dozen Buddhist monks and nationalists demonstrated outside the port terminal on Thursday. They held signs rejecting the use of the name Rohingya - the name most Muslims in northern Rakhine state use to describe themselves, which Myanmar rejects."We don't mind that they want to support people who are suffering," Buddhist monk U Thuseiktha told Reuters. "But we don't want political exploitation of this issue by calling them Rohingya. The name Rohingya doesn't exist."  'CONFIDENCE' Myanmar officials have also accused Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak of tapping into the Rohingya cause "to promote a certain political agenda". The Muslim groups and aid organisations behind the aid shipment had hoped to deliver the supplies directly to Rohingyas in Rakhine State, but were instead forced to hand the aid over to the Myanmar government in Yangon. Myanmar has also insisted that it be distributed equally between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine State. Abd. Aziz Sheikh Fadzir, a lawmaker from Najib's ruling party who attended the docking, said the organisations behind the shipment had been delivering aid to other crises around Asia and the Pacific. Any suggestion of political expediency was "speculation", he said. Najib has called Myanmar's military operation "genocide" and saw off the shipment when it left Malaysia last Friday. Reezal Merican Naina Merican, Malaysia's deputy minister of foreign affairs, who was also at the port, praised Myanmar for agreeing to accept the delivery, saying it built confidence between the international community and Myanmar. Win Myat Aye, Myanmar's minister for social welfare, relief and resettlement, said Rakhine was "the second-poorest state in Myanmar, is a natural disaster-prone area by geographical location, and it is compounded by communal conflicts unfortunately". Myanmar has been criticised for hampering the work of agencies including the UN World Food Program trying to feed people in area where malnutrition rates were high before the conflict. The government had been delivering aid to affected people in northern Rakhine "without discrimination", Win Myat Aye said, adding Myanmar would "arrange the distribution of this aid to the communities in the affected areas at the soonest possible time".  ....

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A fire broke out at a slum in the city's Tejkunipara area on Friday morning. Fire service officer Mizanur Rahman said the fire erupted at Railway Colony slum around 9:07am. On information, he said, seven firefighting units rushed in and extinguished the blaze around 9.45am. It is not still clear what exactly caused the fire; according to UNB.....

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