DHAKA -- A High Court division bench in Bangladesh on Tuesday said a convict jailed to more than two years cannot contest the election.

The High Court division bench of Justice Mohammad Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice KM Hafizul Alam passed the order, rejecting an appeal seeking a stay order on the imprisonment of ex-Prime Minister Minister Khaleda Zia's five opposition (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) BNP leaders. (Bangladesh-Election)

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SEOUL -- More than six out of 10 South Koreans support easing sanctions on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to facilitate the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and build lasting peace, a survey showed Tuesday.

According to the poll by the National Unification Advisory Council, a presidential advisory body on long-term policy for inter-Korean relations, 64 percent of respondents support the sanctions relief on Pyongyang.(S.Korea-Sanctions)

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SEOUL -- A South Korean man on Tuesday hurled a firebomb at a car carrying the country's top court chief, according to local media reports.

The 74-year-old, only identified by his surname Nam, threw a plastic bottle, filled with the inflammables, at a vehicle carrying Supreme Court Chief Justice Kim Myeong-su at about 9:05 a.m. local time (0005 GMT). (S.Korea-Firebomb)

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KABUL -- More than 300,000 Afghans have been internally displaced by conflict so far this year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Afghanistan said Tuesday.

A total of 301,341 people have been verified as having been displaced by conflict this year, according to OCHA's Displacement Tracking System (DTS), the agency said in a regular weekly report. (Afghanistan-Conflict) Enditem

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