Md. Mokbul Hossain, MP from Pabna-3 and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Land Ministry hands over donation cheques from the PM’s Relief Fund among the sick people of Bhangura on Wednesday

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Md. Mokbul Hossain, MP from Pabna-3 and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Land Ministry hands over donation cheques from the PM's Relief Fund among the sick people of Bhangura on Wednesday. NN photo

IS frees over 200 Yazidis in Iraq

AFP, Altun Kopri :More than 200 most elderly members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority were freed by the Islamic State group after eight months in captivity and crossed Wednesday to the safety of Kurdistan.“We have received 227 Yazidis, among them women and children” in the northern province of Kirkuk Wednesday, Major General Westa Rasul of the Kurdish peshmerga forces told AFP.“We negotiated for days with tribal sheikhs in Hawijah and were able to free the kidnapped Yazidis,” Rasul said, referring to...

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