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About 10 suspected militants arrested in Bangladesh amid crackdown
Jun 12, 2017 15:47Police in Bangladesh have made 10 fresh arrests as a crackdown on members of an outlawed militant group widens across the country.
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Cyclone Mora hits Bangladesh, 300,000 evacuated from coastal areas
May 30, 2017 03:31Cyclone Mora hit Bangladesh Tuesday packing winds of up to 117 kilometers per hour (73mph) after authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people from low-lying coastal villages.
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Bangladesh police raid office of opposition leader Khaleda Zia
May 20, 2017 17:55The office of Khaleda Zia, the main opposition leader in Bangladesh, has come under a raid by police forces as authorities claim they were searching for anti-state documents.
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Police raid kills two militants in western Bangladesh
May 07, 2017 12:45At least two militants have been killed when anti-terrorism officers raided their hideout in western Bangladesh.
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Qatar blocks migrant workers from returning home
Mar 29, 2017 09:59Qatar has refused to allow scores of migrants from countries including India, Nepal and Bangladesh to return home, violating new labor reforms to improve workers' rights, activists and trade unions said on Wednesday.
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Bomb blasts hits Bangladesh
Mar 26, 2017 01:13At least six people, including two police officials, were killed and scores wounded in two bomb blasts in Bangladesh on Saturday near a militant hideout that was raided by commandos, police said.
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Bangladesh police shoot dead militant armed with explosives
Mar 18, 2017 09:33Police in Bangladesh have shot and killed a suspected militant trying to cross a checkpoint in the country’s capital, Dhaka.
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Bangladesh arrests four over café attack
Feb 01, 2017 10:35Security officers in Bangladesh have nabbed four suspects, including a computer engineer, for their role in running the social media operations of a terrorist group that had staged a deadly raid on a Dhaka café.
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Bangladesh to relocate Rohingya refugees to remote island
Jan 30, 2017 12:19Authorities in Bangladesh have controversially decided to encamp tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from neighboring Myanmar at a remote offshore location.
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Bangladesh sentences 26, including politician, ex-police commander, to death
Jan 16, 2017 08:50A court in Bangladesh has handed death penalties to a politician and a former elite police force commander as well as other members of the force for the abduction and killing of seven men three years ago.