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The interim Bangladeshi government, to be headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, is likely to be sworn in on Thursday night, Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said at a media briefing aired live on Wednesday in the capital Dhaka. Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Tuesday decided to appoint Yunus as the head of the caretaker administration, to oversee the next election after long-time prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday in the face of mass protests. The Nobel laureate economist and entrepreneur, who championed the concepts of microcredit and microf…

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