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| SHIBCHAR, Bangladesh |
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, whose five-year term ends next month, Saturday said if she was voted back to power Bangladesh's development would continue.
"If you vote the Awami League back to power the spree of development activities will continue as my government has endeavoured to do in the past five years," she told a huge public rally in southern Madaripur, after a groundbreaking ceremony of a 450-metre long bridge over Arail Kha river here.
She added: "We want to develop Bangladesh so that we do not have to seek foreign aid from door-to-door."
Sheikh Hasina also introduced French Ambassador Micel Lummauz, Norwegian ambassador Gerd Wahlstrom and Antonio De Souza Menezes, the envoy for the European Union, to a cheering crowd.
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| SOFIA |
Bulgarian voters weary of poverty and corruption are expected on Sunday to return former king Simeon II to the political stage after 55 years in exile, at the head of coalition of political novices.
Opinion polls predict the former king's coalition will win the ballot, following years of painful ... |
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| BANJA LUKA, Bosnia-Hercegovina |
Over 95 percent of people in the Bosnian Serb entity within Bosnia-Hercegovina live in poverty, according to a survey published on Saturday in daily Glas Srpski.
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| Germany in the 1920's suffered from hyper-inflation when money became almost worthless. At its worst there were 420,000,000,000 German Marks to the American Dollar. Can you imagine four hundred and twenty billion Marks to the Dollar. A ... |
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