DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The key coordinators of the student movement that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee Bangladesh announced Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus as the chief advisor of the interim government on Tuesday. In a video posted on social media, key coordinator Nahid Islam along with two other coordinators said “we have decid...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s president ordered the release of opposition leader Khaleda Zia late Monday, hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid widespread protests. A statement from President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s office said that all political parties had agreed to dissolve parliament to form a tr...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government. Hasina had sought since early July to quell nationwide protests against her government, but she fled after a brutal day o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said over the weekend that he has “no choice but to support electric vehicles” due to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s backing of him in the coming election. Speaking at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, Trump discussed the support he received fro...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former president Jimmy Carter expressed hope Saturday to vote for Kamala Harris in the presidential election in November. Carter has largely been focused on defeating former President Donald Trump as he approaches his 100th birthday. “I’m only trying to make it to vote for Kamala Harris,” Carter told his son, Chip, who re...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A US federal judge has scheduled a conference for Aug. 16 with defense and prosecution teams in an election interference case against former president Donald Trump, according to local media. The conference with District Judge Tanya Chutkan will determine a schedule for pretrial proceedings, according to a late Saturday co...
Liverpool, United Kingdom – AFP Far-right protesters clashed with British police during tense rallies Saturday as unrest linked to disinformation about a mass stabbing that killed three young girls spread across the UK. The violence, which has seen scores of arrests across England and put Britain’s Muslim community on edge, present...
Atlanta, United States – AFP Kamala Harris’s campaign branded Donald Trump “scared” Saturday after he proposed changing the debate schedule, as the Republican rallied in Georgia seeking to blunt the vice president’s surging momentum in her bid to become America’s first woman president. Trump said he was will...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Protesting students in Bangladesh have rejected the prime minister’s call for dialogue. “The door of the Ganabhaban (official prime minister’s residence) is open. I want to sit with the students and listen to them. I want no conflict,” said Sheikh Hasina, the premier. She also ordered the release of “innocent” st...
Bangladesh has banned the opposition party Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, under anti-terrorism laws. The ban, effective immediately, was announced by the Home Ministry and has sparked strong criticism from Jamaat-e-Islami. The party denounced the action as unconstitutional and a diversion from ongoing student prot...
