The UN rights commission office (OHCHR) reported 1,400 deaths between July 15 and August 15, saying the figure included the outcome of retaliatory violence against police and Awami League activists ...

The dreaded Islamic State has redrawn sovereign borders in the sands of the Middle East and North Africa, and the threat it and other terrorist organizations pose around the world is serious and ...

The nation holds its breath as a Special Judge's Court in Dhaka prepares to announce a verdict in unprecedented corruption cases implicating Sheikh Hasina and her immediate family. The former prime ...

The son of Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister has made the rare admission that his mother’s government “mishandled” the volatile situation in Dhaka during the popular Gen Z uprising of 2024, which ...

A Dhaka court is set to deliver its verdict on Thursday in three cases filed against 47 individuals — including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and daughter Saima Wazed ...

Eighteen other people have received jail sentences alongside ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, and her daughter Saima Wazed Putul in three cases over corruption in the ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has since been ousted, pictured in Rome, Italy, in July 2023. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who has since been ousted, pictured in Rome, Italy, ...

There is something uniquely reckless about waging political war on your own country’s foreign relations while enjoying the protections of another’s. Sajeeb Wazed Joy has been doing exactly that.

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