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In January, as this bumper year of elections got under way, breathless editorials and reheated hot takes made it clear the stakes could not be higher. Time magazine pronounced it a “make-or-break year for democracy”, while others declared it “democracy’s biggest test” and asked whether the very concept could make it to December intact.

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She might not have fired the weapon however Mahabubar Rahman understands who killed Shoikot, his beloved only boy. Sheikh Hasina is the criminal accountable for his death, he said. She is the one who has actually shattered us. Bangladesh's former prime minister got away the country last month, bringing her 15-year program, controlled by accusations of tyranny, violence and ...
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Firecracker festival and a sheep show: photos of the day & Wednesday
Firecracker festival and a sheep show: photos of the day & WednesdayA labourer carries roosters on his headYoung handlers in white coats with black sheep during judgingAn oystercatcher perched on a strip of land in waterFirecracker festival and a sheep show: photos of the day & WednesdayCows graze near rows of solar panels on brown earthStaff transport paintings using sliding library cages
Ukraine servicemen walk through a field of sunflowersFirecracker festival and a sheep show: photos of the day & WednesdayA driver in a decorated green rickshawA reveller surrounded by firecrackers at night
A silhouette of a man diving into the sea from rocksFirecracker festival and a sheep show: photos of the day & Wednesday
Firecracker festival and a sheep show: photos of the day & Wednesday
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Keir Starmer has offered his full assistance to Tulip Siddiq, the Treasury minister, after Bangladesh's anti-corruption commission accused her and relative of embezzling billions as part of an offer for a nuclear power plant.Siddiq's function as economic secretary to the Treasury consists of responsibility for taking on monetary corruption. She has actually rejected ...
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In Bangladesh, something remarkable has taken place. Initially in reaction to a quota system that booked the majority of government tasks for specific groups, university students started massive non-violent demonstrations. Bangladesh's increasingly autocratic prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, responded essentially with let them consume cake. Instead of ca ...
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A court in Bangladesh has ordered an investigation into the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's supposed function in the death of a grocery store owner in the capital, Dhaka, during last month's student-led protests.The case submitted by Bangladeshi resident Amir Hamza versus Hasina and 6 others was accepted by Dhaka's primary urbane magistrates c.
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When Shahadat set out for Saudi Arabia from his village in Bangladesh, he was driven by a single purpose: to earn money for his impoverished family. “If he sent money home, his family would eat. If he didn’t, they wouldn’t,” says a relative.

For years he just about scraped by, sending a little money home each month and trying to pay down the huge...

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It was previously this month, as demonstrations swept Bangladesh and bodies lay on the streets, that prime minister Sheikh Hasina hastily boarded a helicopter. She was unaccompanied by any political aides and did not inform any of her senior ministers she was leaving. In a matter of hours, she touched down in neighbouring India, where she has been since ...
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Many dozens of Rohingya people, including children, were killed in an artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians as they tried to flee Myanmar last week.

Civilians were trying to escape violence in Maungdaw town, Rakhine state, by crossing the Naf River into Bangladesh when they were targeted last Monday. Videos shared on social media,...

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Growing stress in between India and Bangladesh have actually appeared amidst allegations of attacks on Bangladesh's Hindu minority, which have prompted mass protests and attack on a Bangladeshi consulate in India.The relationship between the two nations has actually soured given that August, when a popular uprising-- now widely called the monsoon revolution -- fell ...
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Nearly 300,000 Bangladeshis are taking refuge in emergency shelters from floods that inundated vast areas of the country, disaster officials said.

The floods were triggered by heavy monsoon rains and have killed at least 42 people in Bangladesh and India since the start of the week, many in landslides.

Lufton Nahar, 60, speaking from a relief...

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August is the quietest month – to mangle TS Eliot’s verse – or so news editors used to think. Politicians go on holiday, governments shut down, people head for the hills or the beach. Not much happens. Not so this August. The world this month is experiencing an extraordinary peaking of volatility, instability and insecurity, unprecedented in recen...

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As Sheikh Hasina viewed Dhaka fade from view, aboard a military helicopter, crowds were storming her palatial residence.Far listed below, about 1,000 Bangladeshis lay dead and many more hurt, the toll of a ruthless crackdown by her security forces on student-led demonstrations, in some cases called the Monsoon Revolution. Hasina was soon in India, where she ...
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Countless Rohingya are being forced to get away from their homes in Myanmar and get away on harmful boat journeys after being targeted by armed rebels, activists and authorities say.Having took control of much of Myanmar's Rakhine state from the military, the rebel Arakan Army has actually turned on the Rohingya minority in areas it manages, shelling v.
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The relief in Dhaka was palpable. It feels great that finally we have actually educated individuals running our federal government, said Zahin Ferdous, a 19-year-old college student, describing the new interim federal government led by the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.Ferdous was performing traffic in Bangladesh's capital, one of the volunteers trying to bring back n.
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Bangladesh will look for the extradition of the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to deal with trial on charges including criminal activities against mankind, the country's interim leader, Muhammad Yunus, has stated in a speech.Hasina, whose autocratic routine governed Bangladesh for 15 years, was toppled in a student-led transformation in August. Ever since she has been ...
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The Women's T20 World Cup has been transferred to the United Arab Emirates from Bangladesh following violent demonstrations in the set up host nation, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced.Student-led anti-government presentations and continuing civil discontent have resulted in Bangladesh's former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, resigning and f.
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Bangladeshi reporters are hoping the resignation of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina will bring an age of censorship and worry to an end, as they prepare to hold a brand-new interim federal government to account.Arrests, abuse and required disappearances at the hands of Bangladesh's security forces have loomed over reporters for most of Hasina's 15-year rule, p.
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Hundreds of protesters stormed the governmental palace in Dhaka demanding the resignation of the president, Mohammed Shahabuddin. Demonstrators took action after an interview in which Shahabuddin expressed doubt over the resignation of the ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who left to India after big student-led demonstrations this summer. As ...
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This summertime Prapti Taposhi signed up with thousands of her fellow trainees in Bangladesh and required to the streets. She was furious about the unfairness of a quota system that reserved 30% of tasks for the children of liberty fighters from the 1971 war of independence with Pakistan.Government jobs are well paid and safe and, trainees argued, it was a.
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After 15 years in power, Bangladesh's prime minister all of a sudden resigned and left the country. Sheikh Hasina's departure, which followed weeks of student-led demonstrations that were met with fatal force, was welcomed with jubilation on the streets of the capital, Dhaka. Over the past month, footage on the ground has revealed protesters being beaten and ...
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British regulators have been urged by MPs to examine the relationship between London estate agents, lawyers and lenders and a former Bangladeshi government minister under investigation for alleged corruption.

Saifuzzaman Chowdhury was the land minister in Bangladesh until earlier this year, when the government of Sheikh Hasina was spectacularly...

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Hundreds of student protesters and political activists armed with bamboo sticks, iron rods and pipes have assaulted supporters of the ousted Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and prevented them from reaching the former house of her father, the assassinated independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, in Dhaka.

The house in the Dhanmondi...

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Muhammad Yunus has actually been sworn in as head of a new caretaker federal government in Bangladesh in an event that began with a minute's silence to keep in mind those who were eliminated in the recent protests.The swearing-in, led by President Mohammed Shahabuddin, was participated in by more than 1,500 guests consisting of politicians, students, demonstration planners and ...
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Thus much of Sheikh Hasina's political competitors, Amir Chowdhury was in jail the day that the prime minister ran away Bangladesh.Chowdhury, a senior leader in the opposition Bangladesh National Party (BNP), had actually been gotten by police three weeks previously, in July, as mass demonstrations started to swallow up the nation and a violent crackdown began in reaction ...
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After more than five years, the family of Michael Chakma, one of Bangladesh’s “disappeared”, held a funeral service for him, certain they would never see him again. Last week, the 45-year-old was one of a handful of people released from detention in the aftermath of the student uprising which led to the dramatic collapse of former prime minister...

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A “second liberation day”. That is how Muhammad Yunus, Nobel peace laureate, hailed the moment when Bangladesh’s autocratic prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, fled by helicopter on Monday amid a huge uprising. Now the 84-year-old microfinance pioneer is to head the country’s interim government.

Mr Yunus, who is due to arrive home from France on...

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In early August, against a backdrop of deadly student-led protests, Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned her position, bringing to a close a political dynasty that stretched back to the country’s founding.

This week, students took to the streets on the other side of Asia, to protest against amended election laws that have helped...

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This summer Prapti Taposhi signed up with thousands of her fellow trainees in Bangladesh and took to the streets. She was furious about the unfairness of a quota system that scheduled 30% of jobs for the kids of flexibility fighters from the 1971 war of self-reliance with Pakistan.Government jobs are well paid and safe and secure and, trainees argued, it was a.
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Trainees are out in force on the streets of Dhaka, no longer protesting but working to put a city back together after the dramatic occasions of the previous few days. After Monday's resignation of Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, subsequent robbery and pockets of violence suggested the preliminary jubilation rapidly turned to concern.There were ...
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