DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least three people died after a trawler carrying 21 passengers capsized in Megha river of Bangladesh. The fishing boat was struck by a large sand-laden cargo vessel, or bulkhead, in the Bhairab area of the river. Officials from the diving unit of Fire Service & Civil Defense (FSCD) said six […]
Meulaboh, Indonesia – AFP Dozens of Rohingya refugees stranded on the rusty hull of a capsized ship were rescued Thursday after the dehydrated and sunburnt group had drifted at sea for more than a day. Those rescued were 69 men, women and children, some of whom had been at sea for weeks on a rickety […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, authorities said. “So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP ...
MUNICH, Germany (AA) – Bangladesh’s prime minister has said that what is happening in Gaza now is genocide, stressing that the Palestinian people have the right to live and have their own state. In an interview with Anadolu, Sheikh Hasina stressed that Bangladesh has always stood against genocide, adding that as for what is happening […...
Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP Bangladesh Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Thursday that several of his firms were forcibly taken over, weeks after his conviction in a criminal case his supporters say was politically motivated. Yunus, 83, is credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank but has earn...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh will send back Myanmar border guards and other officials who fled civil war in their country by air, an official in the Foreign Ministry told Anadolu. Clashes between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army, an ethnic group, have intensified in recent months. Over 260 Myanmar officials, including bord...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh summoned Myanmar’s top envoy in Dhaka concerning the killing of two people by mortar shells fired from across the border amid armed fighting between the regime and rebel groups. The Foreign Ministry summoned U. Aung Kyaw Moe to strongly protest the killings and events that took place on the Myanm...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Internally displaced Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar’s Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh in a new wave of forced migration in search of safety, refuge, and food as clashes between military junta forces and rebel groups escalate. Many have crossed into the Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Cox’s Bazar,...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – In a letter to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, 12 US senators have urged an end to the “persistent harassment” of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who is battling a string of graft cases. Earlier this month, a court handed down a six-month prison sentence to Yunus and three of his colleagues [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh on Sunday expressed its support to South Africa in its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violating the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Bangladesh said it supports South Africa’s call, as a State Party to the Genocide Convention, for provisional ...
