ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN human rights chief urged accountability and dialogue after reports of deadly violence in Bangladesh on Friday. “All sides must exercise restraint and security forces must ensure that the use of force is in line with international human rights law,” said Volker Turk. Bangladesh imposed a curfew across th...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladeshi student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates Friday as police struggled to quell unrest, with huge rallies in the capital Dhaka despite a police ban on public gatherings. This week’s unrest has killed at least 75 people, according to an AFP count of victims reported by hospit...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh ordered schools and universities around the country to close indefinitely on Tuesday after six students were killed in protests that prompted the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order. Every high school, university and Islamic seminary around the country was told to remain shut until further noti...
KARACHI (AA) – Thousands of jubilant cricket fans flooded the streets across Afghanistan to celebrate the blue shirts’ advance to their first-ever T20 World Cup semi-final. The inexperienced but stirred-up Afghan team beat Bangladesh by 8 runs in a rain-affected match at the Arnos Vale Stadium in St. Vincent, West Indies, on Monday...
Seven Rohingya people living in camps in Bangladesh’s southeastern Cox’s Bazar district have been killed in landslides. Heavy rains have been continuing across the country for the last several days. As many as 1.2 million forcibly displaced Burmese nationals have been living in these camps since 2017 after fleeing a military genocide in ...
Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – AFP Torrential rains in Bangladesh have triggered landslides burying alive at least nine people and forcing thousands to flee to higher ground, police and government officials in the low-lying nation said Wednesday. Schools have been turned into shelters for those abandoning their homes to rising river wat...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s coral rich St. Martin Island is facing a food crisis as communication remains suspended due to intermittent firing from across the border with Burma, officials said. The small island of about 8 square kilometers is located in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal with natural beauty which makes [&hell...
Kolkata, India — AFP A powerful cyclone that smashed into low-lying Bangladesh and India killed at least 65 people, including in torrential rain storms in its wake, state government officials and media have reported. Cyclone Remal, which made landfall on Sunday evening with fierce gales and crashing waves, moved slowly inland causing flo...
Patuakhali, Bangladesh – AFP An intense cyclone smashed into the low-lying coast of Bangladesh on Sunday, with nearly a million people fleeing inland for concrete storm shelters away from howling gales and crashing waves. “The severe Cyclone Remal has started crossing the Bangladesh coast,” Bangladesh Meteorological Departmen...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP The United Nations has warned that the escalating fighting in Burma’s Rakhine State has forced around 45,000 minority Muslim Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property. “Tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent days by the fighting in Buthidaung and Ma...
