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Latest News From The Daily Star

• PM flies to Sweden

  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left here for Sweden last night to attend a five-day conference on climate change.

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• PM flies to Sweden today

  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves for Sweden today to attend a five-day conference on climate change.

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• Sweden responds to Hasina's climate plea

  Sweden would propose an adaptation fund of 5-7 billion Euros in the upcoming Copenhagen climate change conference in aid to climate victim nations including Bangladesh.

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• 'Sweden' Aslam gets 17 yrs in arms case

  A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced top criminal 'Sweden' Aslam and three of his accomplices to 17 years' rigorous imprisonment (RI) for possessing illegal firearms and ammunition in his DOHS residence in May, 1997.

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• Lanka snubs Sweden as tensions over war mount

  Sri Lanka barred Sweden's foreign minister Tuesday from entering the island on a humanitarian mission, As Diplomatic Tensions Mounted Over The Conduct Of The War On The Tamil Tigers.

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Latest News From Around The World

• The Guardian

  Murray easily brushed aside by Soderling

  • Swede triumphs 6-1, 7-6 over out-of-sorts British No1 • Soderling now meets Andy Roddick in semi-finals

  Andy Murray's hopes of winning his first title of the year were blown away in a dazzling array of winners last n

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• The Guardian

  David Lacey: England could find a new hero

  One player's misfortune is often another's good luck – just ask Neil Webb and Paul Gascoigne

  In football, fame can be fleeting and a serious injury will simply hasten the process further still. At least David Beckham rup

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• The Guardian

  Competitors keep an eye on the future

  This week's European Championship was a strange event. The field was packed with strong grandmasters, yet for many of them the title and medals were a secondary consideration.

  The jackpot was a top-22 finish, qualifying for the next World Cu

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• The Observer

  Lionel Shriver: How I failed my best friend

  When Terri was diagnosed with cancer, Lionel Shriver was doting – at first. But as her condition worsened, there always seemed to be a reason not to call…

  I met Terri in the early 1980s at an arts camp in Connecticut.

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• National Public Radio

  Cartoon Furor Met With Muted Response In Sweden

  Swedish Lars Vilks has lived with a $100,000 bounty on his head since 2007 for a drawing he made depicting the Prophet Muhammad. But unlike the angry protest that erupted in 2005 after similar cartoons were published in Denmark, Swedes have remained

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