<div><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2nxENo_0upUxnRY00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2nxENo_0upUxnRY00" width="450" height="296" ><nbtemplate data-id="AdPlaceholder" data-content="JTdCJTdE"></nbtemplate> (Reuters) - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will be the chief adviser of the Bangladeshi interim government, The Daily Star reported on Wednesday, citing a press release of Bangabhaban. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar; Editing by Chris Reese) </div>

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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will head Bangladesh's interim government after former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down and fled the country amid a mass uprising against her rule. Yunus was chosen during a meeting that included military chiefs, leaders of student protests that helped push...

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DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been chosen to head the country’s interim government after the nation’s longtime prime minister resigned and fled abroad in the face of violent unrest against her rule. Known as the “banker to the poorest of the poor”...

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(Reuters) - Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus will be the chief adviser of the Bangladeshi interim government, The Daily Star reported on Wednesday, citing a press release of Bangabhaban.

Nobel laureate Yunus to be chief adviser of interim Bangladeshi government, The Daily Star reports

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