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T WAS YET another Zoom meeting gone horribly wrong. The annual shindig of the Pacific Islands Forum (
PIF), the main regional organisation for the far-flung countries of the Pacific, could not take place in person this year, owing to covid-19. Instead, its members chose a new secretary-general in a video conference. When a former prime minister of the Cook Islands, Henry Puna, squeaked into the job by a single vote, five of the forum’s 18 members threatened to withdraw from the body in protest.
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A Bangladeshi recently deported from France for his involvement in militant activities had plans of going to Syria to join Islamic State.
Self-radicalised through various online contents, 24-year-old Saif Rahman was planning to conduct a terror attack in France. He was involved in jihadi propaganda and activities from September to December 2019, claimed Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC)officials.
For this reason, the French government deported Saif to Bangladesh after he was arrested by a law enforcement agency of the European country.
The CTTC unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police came up with this info after arresting Saif upon his arrival at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) on January 14.
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