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British envoy at Khaleda’s house
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British envoy at Khaleda’s house

Shirshobindu news desk: British High Commissioner Robert Gibson has met BNP chief Khaleda Zia at her house amid the tight police security and countrywide concern over the opposition’s agitation ahead of the polls, reported bdnews24.com. A bdnews24.com correspondent reported from the spot on Monday that he had entered her house through the eastern gate of her residence at 5:27pm and he came out at 6:42pm. The British envoy, however, did not speak to media persons after the meeting. Half an hour earlier, Khaleda Zia’s two advisors Riaz Rahman and Sabihuddin Ahmed and party vice-chairman Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury went to the party chief's residence to meet her.
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Volgograd blasts: Second suicide bomb hits Russia city

Shirshobindu news desk: at least 14 people have been killed in a suicide bombing on a trolleybus in the Russian city of Volgograd, investigators say. The blast comes a day after 17 people died in another suicide attack at the central station in the city. Security has been tightened at railway stations and airports across Russia. Moscow is concerned that militants could be ramping up violence in the run-up to the 2014 winter Olympic Games in the city of Sochi in February. The Olympics venue is close to Russia's volatile north Caucasus region, and the BBC's Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford says it was always risky staging the Games so near to the troubled republics of Chechnya and Dagestan. These bombs have been a brutal reminder of that, he says. In a statement, Russia's foreign m...
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