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EU voices concern over protest-related violence in Bangladesh

It renewed calls to ensure a participatory and peaceful environment ahead of the upcoming parliamentary polls

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina delivers her valedictory speech at this session of the Jatiya Sangsad on 1 September 2022

PM Hasina asks Won’t police have right to protect them when they are attacked?

The prime minister raised this question while delivering her valedictory speech at this session of the Jatiya Sangsad (national parliament)

BNP leader Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee's house was vandalised last Monday while he was away from the house

'Game kicks off, not in field, but in opponents’ houses

In protest against price hike and the death of two party activists, the BNP planned to stage a countrywide protest rally. However, during the protest, the house of central BNP leader and former MP ...

US state department spokesman Ned Price speaks on the situation in Afghanistan at the State Department in Washington, DC, on 18 August 2021

US 'deeply concerned' about violence on Syria-Turkey border

Washington is "deeply concerned" about a recent flare-up of violence along Syria's northern border with Turkey, a State Department spokesman said Monday

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a greetings exchange programme with the Hindu community leaders on the occasion of holy Janmashtami at Dhakeswari Mandir in Dhaka and JM Sen Hall in Chattogram from her official residence, Gonobhaban on 18 August 2022

Don’t think yourselves as minority: PM Hasina tells Hindu community

Sheikh Hasina said if all people can move with this confidence then the evil quarter, from any religion, will never be able to harm the religious harmony of the country

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya, Cox's Bazar on 16 August 2022

Ukhiya camp visit Bachelet advises Rohingyas to be patient about repatriation

The Rohingya representatives who took part in the discussion confirmed the matter to Prothom Alo as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet did not talk to media after exchanging ...

United Nations high commissioner for human rights Michelle Bachelet

Meeting with Michelle Bachelet Activists express concerns over rights violation, freedom of expression

During the meeting, the issues of rights situation in Bangladesh, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, Chittagong Hill Tracts, torture of minority communities, and attack and filing cases ...

Author Salman Rushdie speaks during the opening news conference of the Frankfurt book fair, Germany on 13 October, 2015

Salman Rushdie still hospitalised but ‘started talking’

Rushdie, 75, was set to deliver a lecture on artistic freedom at Chautauqua Institution in western New York when police say Matar rushed the stage and stabbed the Indian-born writer, who has lived ...

Author Salman Rushdie speaks during the opening news conference of the Frankfurt book fair, Germany on 13 October, 2015

Salman Rushdie on ventilator, likely to lose one eye

Police said Rushdie was stabbed in the neck as well as the abdomen. A number of people rushed to the stage and took the suspect to the ground, before a trooper present at the event arrested him

A member of the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB) inspects a dried field amid an intense drought in the country in Herzeele, northern France on 2 August, 2022 France saw its driest July on record, the weather agency said, exacerbating stretched water resources that have forced restrictions

Scientists call for more research into ‘climate endgame’

What is less well explored is the cascading impact of certain events, such as crop failures and infrastructure loss due to extreme weather events, which are made likelier to occur with every degree ...

Why do MPs enjoy fistfights so much?

Why do MPs enjoy fistfights so much?

Parliamentarians’ job is legislation, helping the development of their respective constituencies and serving the public. But why do their hands itch whenever they see someone holding a different ...

Palestinians Suleiman and Nazmiya Baraka show a picture of their slain daughter Istabraq Baraka, who was killed by her husband last year, on 27 June, 2022 in their home, in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip

Palestine crisis Gaza's women and girls see no escape from violence

Seventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her

Map of South Sudan. Google map screen-grab

31 dead in Sudan tribal clashes near Ethiopia border

At least 31 people have been killed in clashes this week between two tribes in Sudan's Blue Nile state bordering Ethiopia, the security services said on Saturday

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits the Japan House to greet his country's Olympic athletes and delegates, in Rio de Janeiro on 21 August 2016

Japan ex-PM Abe dies after being shot while making a speech

Japanese former prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, public broadcaster NHK said on Friday

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476 women raped in six months: ASK

The report was compiled on the basis of media reports and its own investigations

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