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Chief adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus has said students who led the uprising in July will form a party and they are already organising people across the country. He made the statement in an interview with Gideon Rachman, chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times, on the sideline of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos in Switzerland. The UK-based daily published a transcript of the interview on Thursday. Below is a significant portion of the interview, presented for Prothom Alo readers. Gideon Rachman: Can I just press you a little bit on the elections thing? It was interesting because we were talking to Syrians. They have the same issue. Do they have elections? And some people said, in theory it’s great to have elections quickly. But actually in the Syrian case, big mistake. Don’t do it too fast. It can just split the country if you do it too quickly. Muhammad Yunus: This is a good time because always I’m protecting the unity of the nation. I do...

More than 20 Americans are missing in action on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country’s embattled defenses, according to a CNN investigation. The bodies of at least five American volunteers who signed up to the Ukrainian military could not be retrieved from the battlefield after being killed in action in the past six months, CNN found. Two of these were repatriated from Russian-occupied territory on Friday to Ukrainian soil after lengthy negotiations. The stark testimony of their surviving colleagues, and the growing toll, portrays the obscure yet important role of American frontline fighters in a war President Donald Trump has called “ridiculous” and has pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to end diplomatically. The relatives of the missing Americans have told CNN of the distressing lack of closure in not being able to bury their sons, of the legal limbo of not being able to officially ...