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Australia Cricket Manager Hopeful of Bangladesh Visit

Australia's cricket authorities are hopeful that a Bangladesh tour due to start in less than a month will go ahead...

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Nobel Laureate Yunus Cancels Meet In Bangladesh

Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus Thursday cancelled an international conference of social business entrepreneurs...

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Bangladeshi Twins Born Joined At Skull To Undergo Surgery

Bangladeshi twins born conjoined at the skull will undergo a difficult and potentially dangerous operation to separate...

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Four Islamist Extremists Surrender After Shootout In Bangladesh

Four suspected Islamist extremists surrendered Sunday after a night-long standoff with Bangladeshi police in which they...

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Trump Cafe Lures Bangladeshis Keen For Pics, Not Politics

A cafe in Dhaka named after Donald Trump has been luring Bangladeshis undeterred by his controversial politics and more...

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Bangladesh Arrests Suspect In Murder of Rohingya Leaders

Bangladesh police have arrested a man suspected of murdering two Rohingya leaders in the country's southeast where tens...

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Rohingya Refugees May Stay In Bangladesh ‘for Some Time’

Nearly half a million Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in squalid Bangladeshi camps face staying "for some more...

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Jealous Man Blindfolds Then Maims Wife To Stop Her From Pursuing A Degree

A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife’s fingers because she began studying for a...

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Bangladesh Eatery Bans Foreigners Fearing Extremist Attack

An upscale Bangladeshi restaurant has banned foreign guests, fearing a repeat of last year's deadly terrorist attack in...

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Bangladesh Opposition Activists Held In Secret Detention

Bangladesh security agencies have secretly detained scores of opposition activists many of whom have later been killed,...

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Bangladesh Says Faulty Boiler Caused Deadly Factory Blast

A faulty boiler caused an explosion at a Bangladesh factory that killed 13 people this week, authorities said...

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Bangladesh Factory Blast Death Toll Rises To 10

The death toll from a blast at a Bangladesh garment factory has risen to 10 after two victims died in hospital,...

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Bangladesh Police Find ‘missing’ Government Critic

A prominent critic of the Bangladesh government has been found safe a day after his family reported him missing,...

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Prominent Bangladesh Government Critic Disappears

One of Bangladesh's most prominent government critics went missing on Monday after calling his wife to tell her he...

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Bangladesh Arrests Three Female Militants

Bangladesh police have arrested three female members of an Islamist extremist group blamed for the deadly Dhaka café...

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Desperate Rohingya Seek New Escape Routes From Bangladesh

In squalid camps in Bangladesh, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled violence and persecution in...

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Heavy Rains Kill At Least 35 In Bangladesh

Heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 35 people in southeast Bangladesh, most of them buried under landslides,...

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Bangladesh Arrests 10 Islamist Extremists As Raids Continue

Bangladesh police Monday widened a sweeping crackdown against Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants,...

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Bangladesh Arrests Alleged Senior Extremist

Bangladesh police on Sunday arrested a businessman accused of being a major figure in the Islamist group blamed for a...