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Bangladeshis observe National Mourning Day, interim government cancels holiday

The interim government of Bangladesh has announced that August 15 will not be observed as a national holiday, but instead will be marked as National Mourning Day to commemorate the assassination of the country's founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.