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Japan says one of its citizens wounded but rescued from Dhaka restaurant INTERNATIONAL

Japan says one of its citizens wounded but rescued from Dhaka restaurant

Japan said on Saturday that one of its citizens had been shot and wounded in an attack on a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital and then rescued.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dhaka signs $130mn WB loan for economic zones INTERNATIONAL

Dhaka signs $130mn WB loan for economic zones

The Bangladeshi government has signed a $130mn additional financing agreement with the World Bank

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Arrests in Bangladesh anti-militant drive top 8,000 INTERNATIONAL

Arrests in Bangladesh anti-militant drive top 8,000

Bangladesh police said Monday they have arrested more than 8,000 people in a nationwide crackdown on militants launched after a series of murders targeting minorities and secular activists.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bangladesh sentences six militants to death for bank robbery INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh sentences six militants to death for bank robbery

A court in Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced six Islamist militants to hang for a bank robbery in April that killed eight people, lawyers said, but the defence vowed to appeal against the verdict.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
FBI suspects insiders in $81mn Bangladesh central bank theft INTERNATIONAL

FBI suspects insiders in $81mn Bangladesh central bank theft

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation suspects the computer hacking theft of $81mn from Bangladesh's central bank was in part an inside job, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bangladesh Islamist leader to hang for war crimes INTERNATIONAL

Bangladesh Islamist leader to hang for war crimes

The leader of Bangladesh's top Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami is set to hang within days after the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld his death sentence for war crimes.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dhaka on alert ahead of war crimes verdict INTERNATIONAL

Dhaka on alert ahead of war crimes verdict

The Bangladesh capital was on high alert yesterday ahead of a Supreme Court verdict on the nation’s top Islamis

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Three held over Bangladesh Hindu tailor's murder INTERNATIONAL

Three held over Bangladesh Hindu tailor's murder

Bangladesh police detained three people on Sunday over the gruesome murder of a Hindu tailor one day earlier, the latest deadly attack on minorities claimed by the Islamic State group.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dhaka slum looking for ways to lower risks from climate change INTERNATIONAL

Dhaka slum looking for ways to lower risks from climate change

For the 127 families of Medical Slum, a warren of tin shacks set in the shadow of a towering yellow-brick

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Gay rights activist among two hacked to death in Bangladesh INTERNATIONAL

Gay rights activist among two hacked to death in Bangladesh

Two people were hacked to death on Monday at an apartment in Dhaka, police said, with a local television channel identifying one of them as a leading gay rights activist.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dhaka seeks review of US report on human rights INTERNATIONAL

Dhaka seeks review of US report on human rights

Bangladesh yesterday said the government has neither given any authority to any law enforcement agency to carry out extrajudicial killings ...

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Dhaka blames domestic Islamists for activist death INTERNATIONAL

Dhaka blames domestic Islamists for activist death

Bangladeshi police said yesterday they suspect a domestic Islamist militant group of being behind the brutal murder of a secular activist in Dhaka...

4:45 AM November 25 2016