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...That number now includes novelist Rumaan Alam. Ahead of publication, his apocalyptic 2020 bestseller Leave the World Behind was the subject of a studio bidding war for the film rights....
...“By its very definition, an election means an act of choice,” said Badiul Alam Majumdar, a civil society activist. “There must be an even playing field for the alternatives.”...
...Mr Rahman and the other two held — Sadek Ali, 28, and Aminul Mollick, 35 — were accused of working for the Ansarullah Bangla Team, a banned Islamist organisation whose leader Jasimuddin Rahmani is in jail...
...When Prof Alam is not working he enjoys listening to Ghazals, poems of religious and earthly devotional love, as sung by his favourite artist, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan....
...“Some of these [Iranians] were retired IRGC and military members . . . and others were from other different departments,” Ali-Akbar Salehi told Iran’s ISNA news agency....
...Ali-Akbar Salehi, Iran’s foreign minister, said over the weekend that the espionage charges were “fake”, linking it to the turmoil in Bahrain....
...Less than a year ago, Asif Ali Zardari would have hardly been considered a likely candidate for high office....
...IRIB, which is accountable to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, created Al-Alam, a 24-hour Arabic channel, in 2003 after the US invasion of Iraq to target Arabic-speaking viewers in the Middle East,...
...confession of Faye Turney, the only woman among the 15 captives, showed clear co-ordination as the London embassy released the text of a letter from Ms Turney, just as footage of her was broadcast on Al-Alam...
...Al-Alam, an Arabic-language state controlled television station, showed an interview with the marine, identified as Nathan Thomas Summers....
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