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Businesses and offices partially reopened in Bangladesh on Wednesday as the authorities relaxed a curfew for several hours, after more than a week of deadly student protests. Fierce clashes between thousands of protesters and the police have reportedly left more than 180 people killed and numerous vehicles, businesses and public establishments torched. The students have been demanding reform in the public sector job quota system. The government on Tuesday published an order redistributing the job quotas in line with a Supreme Court judgement. Ninety-three percent of positions in the public sec…