[Bangla Daily Star] A madrasa student yesterday allegedly slit his roommate's throat at the dormitory in the city of Sylhet.
The dear departed was identified as Amir Abbas, 18, son of Abdus Salam of Bhadertek village in Biswambharpur upazila of Sunamganj.
Abbas was a student of hafezi (Koran memorising) section of Zamia Kasimul Ulum Madrasa near the Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) shrine in the city.
Hearing him groaning minutes before the Fazr prayers, students from nearby rooms rushed to Abbas' room and saw Saifur, 18, fleeing. Saifur was his roommate and a good friend, police said quoting the students. I've had plenty of good friends in my time. Not a one of them's cut my throat. In fact, only two or three people who weren't good friends ever tried it, and them only figuratively.
Police recovered the body around 9:00am and sent it to MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital morgue for his appointment with Doctor Quincy. They also recovered two bloodstained knives from the scene.
Saifur has been on the run since the murder.
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Hmm, lovers' quarrel?
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sounds liek this year's madrassah Valedictorian.
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[Iran Press TV] Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki has slammed the extradition of former Libyan Prime Minister Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi from Tunisia to Libya as "illegal".
Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali had taken the decision to extradite al-Mahmoudi without consulting the president, a statement from Marzouki's office read on Sunday, according to the AFP.
"The presidency of the Republic expresses its rejection of the decision of the head of government to extradite M. Mahmoudi and considers this decision ... illegal, all the more so because it has been done unilaterally and without consulting the President of the Republic," the statement further read.
"The extradition decision, signed by the head of the Tunisian government, constitutes a clear violation of our country's international commitments and those towards the UN."
The Tunisian president had earlier vowed to hand over the Libyan official only if the Libyan interim government guaranteed a fair trial. However, later in May, he opposed the move.
Mahmoudi arrived in Libya early Sunday and was in prison under the supervision of Libya's Ministry of Justice and the judiciary police.
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[An Nahar] Fighting between the army and troops who have deserted resumed Monday, after a week of relative calm, in the eastern Nord-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mutineers said.
The armed forces (FARDC) "are starting to attack us with heavy weaponry on a hill close to Mbuzi", one of the three hills where the mutineers have set up strongholds, said Lieutenant-Colonel Vianney Kazarama, front man for the deserters, who have formed a March 23 Movement (M23).
Before returning fire, "we are waiting; we are going to talk to partners. We're informing MONUSCO (the UN mission in DR Congo) to tell them that the FARDC should cease attacks to give a chance" to young people to take their high school graduation exams in "serenity", Kazarama added.
High school exams begun Monday throughout the whole of the vast central African country. The government announced that it had taken steps to enable young people in the Rutshuru territory, where the fighting began more than a month ago, to take the exams in spite of the festivities.
"We have gathered all those who are in the zone of unrest between Jomba and surrounding places, in Bunagana," on the border with Uganda, where they will benefit from "the protection of the army and MONUSCO," government front man Lambert Mende told AFP.
Fighting began in May between the FARDC and former rebels of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), who deserted military ranks in protest at what they called bad treatment.
They demanded the full implementation of peace accords signed on March 23, 2009, under which they were integrated into military ranks.
The festivities between M23 and the army have displaced more than 200,000 people, while 20,000 others have fled across borders into neighboring Rwanda and Uganda.
"Even those" pupils who fled into Uganda have "come back to take their exam at Bunagana", Mende said.
M23 has asked the army to "abstain from any war initiative" during the exams so that pupils can "tackle this test peacefully", according to a communiqué dated Sunday and signed by the leader of the movement, Colonel Sultani Makenga.
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[Iran Press TV] Tony Blair has warned that the problem with Europe's single currency is now so serious that a "grand plan" was the only way forward to prevent a break-up, local media reported.
The former British Prime Minister said Sunday that the eurozone is at its end, unless Germany agrees to underwrite the debts of struggling members.
He also suggested that if the single currency stabilized, Britain could still join the Euro.
This comes as the leaders of the European Union, prepare for a crunch summit this week that could bring about the fate of the eurozone.
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Ahh, a Brit volenteering to put a mitre stone around his own neck. My... how times have changed.
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"The former British Prime Minister said Sunday that the eurozone is at its end, unless Germany agrees to underwrite the debts of struggling members."
Door 1, please
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Btw Chancellor Merkel has just said that Eurobonds will not happen "as long as she lives".
Umm either find a new snappy name fat or take out a good life insurance BECAUSE they WILL happen.
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Apparantly Tony hasn't been reading the news lately or he's tone deaf beyond all belief.
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Blair has warned that the problem with Europe's single currency is now so serious that a "grand plan" was the only way forward to prevent a break-up.
By (French) design. The "grand plan" has been in the works since shortly after Blair was born, in 1953. I realize that just about every British leader has been inexcusably naive about continental perfidy, but Blair sounds like he just fell off the turnip truck. He thinks the Titanic can be stabilized, and then it would be safe to climb aboard? No wonder they wanted him to be the president of the EU. Credible, and credulous.
[Iran Press TV] Spain has formally demanded a rescue bailout of up to 100 billion euros (USD 125 billion) in aid from the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... to save its ailing banking system.
In a letter released on Monday, Spain's Finance Ministry made the formal request from its 16 eurozone partners.
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Begging does NOT mean you'll get it.
It's only humbling.(And pisspoor politics)
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when it comes to independent, self-sufficient peoples.........
[Iran Press TV] The Cypriot government has announced that it is seeking a bailout from the European Union, citing exposure to Greek economy as the cause. The country on Monday informed European authorities of its decision to submit to euro member states a request for financial assistance, according to a statement by the country's European Union embassy in Brussels.
Isn't Israel digging them some off-shore gas wells that will generate pots and pots of money?
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[Iran Press TV] The majority of respondents to an opinion poll conducted by Press TV believe that the eurozone debt crisis will spur the world economy into further recession.
The survey showed that 54 percent of the participants said more recession is predictable following the current financial crisis in the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... member states.
According to the poll, 39 percent said the debt crisis will lead to the demise of the euro.
This is while only seven percent of respondents believe that the crisis would not affect the euro and the world economy.
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"We are not going to pay the balance on others' accounts, we are not going to serve as pocket money in anyone's currency exchange, we are not going to allow ourselves to become entangled in political spheres of interest. Why should it be held against our peoples that they want to be completely independent? And why should autonomy be restricted, or the subject of dispute? We will not be dependent on anyone ever again!
Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito[10]"
Sounds like Merkel today.
"MERKEL: Europe Will Never Share All Of Our Debts For 'As Long As I Live'."
Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.
"Previous ocean models ... have predicted temperatures and melt rates that are too high, suggesting a significant mass loss in this region that is actually not taking place," says Tore Hattermann of the Norwegian Polar Institute, member of a team which has obtained two years' worth of direct measurements below the massive Fimbul Ice Shelf in eastern Antarctica - the first ever to be taken.
According to a statement from the American Geophysical Union, announcing the new research:
It turns out that past studies, which were based on computer models without any direct data for comparison or guidance, overestimate the water temperatures and extent of melting beneath the Fimbul Ice Shelf. This has led to the misconception, Hattermann said, that the ice shelf is losing mass at a faster rate than it is gaining mass, leading to an overall loss of mass. The team's results show that water temperatures are far lower than computer models predicted ...
Um... It has been a while since I took a science class, but doesn't predicting something without any corroborative data to back it up a huge scientific process no-no?
Hatterman and his colleagues, using 12 tons of hot-water drilling equipment, bored three holes more than 200m deep through the Fimbul Shelf, which spans an area roughly twice the size of New Jersey. The location of each hole was cunningly chosen so that the various pathways by which water moves beneath the ice shelf could be observed, and instruments were lowered down.
The boffins also supplemented their data craftily by harvesting info from a biology project, the Marine Mammal Exploration of the Oceans Pole to Pole (MEOP) effort, which had seen sensor packages attached to elephant seals.
"Nobody was expecting that the MEOP seals from Bouvetoya would swim straight to the Antarctic and stay along the Fimbul Ice Shelf for the entire winter," Hattermann says. "But this behaviour certainly provided an impressive and unique data set."
Normally, getting sea temperature readings along the shelf in winter would be dangerous if not impossible due to shifting pack ice - but the seals were perfectly at home among the grinding floes.
Overall, according to the team, their field data shows "steady state mass balance" on the eastern Antarctic coasts - ie, that no ice is being lost from the massive shelves there. The research is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
This is good news indeed, as some had thought that huge amounts of ice were melting from the region, which might mean accelerated rates of sea level rise in future. Can we sue Al Gore and his ilk for fraud now?
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1. That should have been 'no net melting' not 'not melting'
2. The Antarctic Ice Shield (counting both continental and shelf ice) has been greater than normal for most of the past 6 years or so. Some global circulation theories posit that this has led to a slight north displacement of the tropical convergence zone which in turn has led to a north displacement of the mean mid lat jet stream which has led to some warmer than normal weather in the US in the past 6 years, especially the past 12 months or so.
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[Pak Daily Times] Bonded labour remained one of the most reprehensible and widespread forms of exploitation in Pakistain even 20 years after the promulgation of a law to abolish it, and the state and civil society needed to redouble their efforts to eliminate the evil, concluded a two-day consultation organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP).
The wide-ranging consultation among organizations working for the elimination of bonded labour was held to discuss the issue and suggest ways to eradicate the evil from the country. The consultation concluded on Monday.
The participants of the consultation agreed that since it was universally recognised as a form of slavery, the state had an obligation to attach top priority to eradication of bonded labour. The way the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act of 1992 had been left unimplemented did not suggest that the gravity of the problem, that affected the rights of several million people, had been adequately realised. The meeting noted that following the devolution of the subject of labour to the provinces, only Punjab had adopted a slightly amended version of the 1992 act. The other provincial governments were asked to expedite issuance of their own laws on the subject. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... it was necessary to ensure that no provincial enactment on abolition of bonded labour offered the bonded workers less than what the 1992 act did.
The participants appreciated the decision of the Punjab government to allocate for the second time funds out of its development budget for its bonded labour elimination programme and extend it to four new districts. The meeting hoped that it would be possible soon to bring the whole of the province under the project. The other provincial governments were requested to draw up similar or improved programmes for the uplift of bonded workers. The meeting scrutinised the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act of 1992 and made a number of recommendations.
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the law relies heavily on district officials and lacks an effective mechanism to oversee their performance. It is proposed that each provincial government should have a duly empowered implementation cell, including senior department heads (home, labour, police et al) to regularly monitor implementation of the law and take action against any functionaries that fail to discharge their responsibilities.
The rules under a new provincial law must be issued as soon as a law is made. Quite a few functionaries do not take up their assignments for want of a notification. The system of notifying implementation authorities should be scrapped and the relevant officials clearly designated in the law or rules.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Fighting between the army and troops who have deserted resumed Monday, after a week of relative calm, in the eastern Nord-Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mutineers said.
Tony Blair has warned that the problem with Europe's single currency is now so serious that a "grand plan" was the only way forward to prevent a break-up, local media reported.
Spain has formally demanded a rescue bailout of up to 100 billion euros (USD 125 billion) in aid from the 
Twenty-year-old models which have suggested serious ice loss in the eastern Antarctic have been compared with reality for the first time - and found to be wrong, so much so that it now appears that no ice is being lost at all.
Bonded labour remained one of the most reprehensible and widespread forms of exploitation in Pakistain even 20 years after the promulgation of a law to abolish it, and the state and civil society needed to redouble their efforts to eliminate the evil, concluded a two-day consultation organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP).
