MONDAY, JULY 8, 2019 07 B’desh headteacher One killed, arrested over child thousands rapes Conservatives beat Tsipras displaced in Dhaka, Bangladesh Rohingya camp landslides religious school’s head- A teacher has been ar- Dhaka, Bangladesh rested for allegedly raping in Greek vote: exit polls two girls and sexually mo- onsoon-triggered lesting another six children Mlandslides in Rohing- under his care, Bangladeshi Mitsotakis’ New Democracy in ya refugee camps in Bangla- officials said yesterday. Opinion polls have ALEXIS the space of two weeks. desh have killed one person Abul Khair Belali, 33, is consistently• forecast TSIPRAS He has accused Mitsotakis and left more than 4,500 the second principal of a Aged 44 -- who was part of a 2012-2014 homeless, aid officials said madrassa -- a religious that New Democracy crisis government -- of “disas- yesterday. school -- to be arrested this headed by Kyriakos trous” mismanagement that About 35 centimetres (14 week for allegedly raping Mitsotakis, will win KYRIAKOS brought hundreds of thousands inches) of rain fell in 72 students. MITSOTAKIS of job losses and business fail- hours before the landslides Belali, also an iman at ures. started Saturday in camps Aged 51 a nearby mosque, was ar- Athens, Greece Mitsotakis, who took over around Cox’s Bazar that rested Friday at the Ken- New Democracy three years house more than 900,000 Head of resurgent conservative Outgoing leftist prime minister dua girls’ madrassa after reece’s conservative New opposition New Democracy ago, is a 51-year-old Harvard of the Muslim minority who an 11-year-old student told Democracy party has since 2016 Syriza party trailing in polls due graduate and former McKinsey fled Myanmar, the UN said. her parents she had been defeated Greek leftist Member of Greece’s leading to discontent over taxes and the consultant. Twenty-six landslides G name deal with North Macedonia raped by him, police chief Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras political dynasty He has pledged to create were reported in makeshift Mohammad Rasheduzzam- in yesterday’s general election, Vows to improve public safety Recently cut food and energy “better” jobs through growth, camps built on hills near an said. exit polls showed. taxes, raised pension payments foreign investment and tax cuts the border with Myanmar. The school is also used as A combined survey by and to “steamroll” obstacles to Trees there have been torn a dormitory by around 15 Greece’s main TV stations business. up to build huts and for fire- girls from the surrounding showed New Democracy lead- Tsipras, on the other hand, wood, leaving the terrain villages. ing Tsipras’s Syriza party by an touts his party’s track record in unstable. “On Saturday, he admitted average of 40 per cent to 28.5pc. reducing unemployment and UN refugee agency official that he raped at least two If these results are confirmed, raising the minimum wage for Areez Rahman said about girl children aged eight and New Democracy leader Kyri- the first time since 2012. 30 shanty camps have been 11 and sexually molested akos Mitsotakis, a 51-year-old His government also rolled affected by the storms. One another six girl children,” Harvard graduate and for - out a batch of last-minute tax woman in her 50s died after Rasheduzzman said. mer McKinsey consultant, cuts in May. being hit by a wall that col- It comes after police last will have a majority of up to But Tsipras has been widely lapsed, he said. week arrested another ma- 167 lawmakers in the 300-seat criticised for campaigning as an drassa head over alleged parliament. anti-austerity crusader before child rape in Fatulla, and Tsipras’s party will have up to eventually accepting a third EU two high school teachers in 82 seats, the polls showed. bailout. US says latest the central industrial town The final number will depend According to the latest polls, of Narayanganj for allegedly on how smaller parties fare. conducted for the Ant1 tv chan- Taliban talks ‘most raping 20 students. They need at least 3.0pc of the nel, New Democracy is expect- productive’ so far vote to enter parliament. ed to gain between 151 to 165 Doha, Qatar New arrivals fighting to se- A woman holding her child casts her vote during general elections at a polling seats in the 300-seat parliament. cure representation are Greek station in Athens Syriza meanwhile is forecast to Regime Solution, a nationalist party fall from 144 seats to between 70 he seventh round of formed by TV salesman Kyri- Outgoing Greek parliament and 82. The biggest party picks Tpeace talks between the bombardment kills akos Velopoulos, and MeRA25, the premier. United States and Afghani- 12 civilians an anti-austerity party formed KINAL To Potami stan’s Taliban that are on- by maverick economist and Social democrat Liberal Budding newcomers going in Qatar are the “most Idlib, Syria former Greek finance minister The vote is Greece’s third productive” so far, US envoy Syriza 19 5 New Democracy Yanis Varoufakis. Leftist Conservative poll in as many months, and Zalmay Khalilzad said. egime bombardment According to the exit polls, 144 78 the country’s first mid-summer The insurgents have been RSunday killed 12 ci - Varoufakis’s party could elect general election since 1928 is meeting with the US envoy vilians including three up to 14 lawmakers. unlikely to attract strong par- in Doha to hammer out a Independents children in an opposition Greek Solution could end 300 23 ticipation. deal that would see the US bastion in northwest - up with 13 deputies, as many KKE Golden Dawn In May, fewer than 59 per cent military quit Afghanistan Communist 15 seats 16 Neo-Nazi ern Syria, a war monitor as neo-Nazi party Golden of registered voters cast ballots in return for various guar- said. Dawn, whose ratings have female mayor. And new Athens left party protested outside the for European Parliament polls antees. “These six days have Idlib, a region of some sharply dropped in the midst mayor Costas Bakoyannis, elect- polling station where Mitsotakis and the first round of local and been the most productive of three million people, has of a criminal trial with sever- ed in May, is his nephew. voted, but their shouts were regional elections. the rounds we’ve had with come under increasing fire al of its top members facing Sunday’s election is Greece’s drowned out by New Democ- Two new smaller parties are the Talibs,” Khalilzad said by the regime and its ally charges. third in as many months, and racy supporters calling their vying to enter parliament for in Qatar. Russia since late April, de- New Democracy was last in the first held in midsummer leader the new prime minister. the first time, hoping to reach “Essentially the four spite a months-old interna- power in 2014, in coalition with since 1928. “I hope that from tomorrow the three percent threshold that items we have been talking tional truce deal. the Greek socialists. In May, New Democracy beat we will be able to breathe with would allow them a seat. about ever since we started The opposition bastion, Mitsotakis is a scion of one of Syriza by nearly 9.5 points in Eu- relief. To take a deep breath. If The MeRA25 anti-austerity (are) terrorism, withdrawal which is administered by Greece’s top political families. ropean parliament elections. A Mitsotakis does what he prom- party has been set up by Tsip- of foreign troops, inter-Af- Syria’s former Al-Qaeda af- He is the son of former prime week later, it completed a near- ises,” Athinodoros, a 48-year-old ras’s former maverick finance ghan negotiations and dia- filiate Hayat Tahrir al-Sh- minister Constantine Mitso- sweep of Greek regions in local self-employed worker voting in minister Yanis Varoufakis, while logue, and ceasefire. am, includes most of Idlib takis, one of the country’s long- elections. Athens said. Greek Solution, is a nationalist, “I can say we have had province as well as slivers of est-serving parliamentarians. Tsipras called the snap elec- pro-Russia party formed by for- substantive discussions, ne- the adjacent Aleppo, Hama His sister is former minister Battle for the premiership tion in June after losing both mer journalist and TV salesman gotiations, and progress on and Latakia provinces. 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