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'Head of state' security for Australian cricketers in Bangladesh

BangladeshwillprovidethehighestlevelofsecurityforAustralia'scricketerswhentheytourinAugust-September,organiserssaidWednesday,afteraspateofrecentIslamistattacks.

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Bangladesh killing: Death sentences for five over murder of Japanese farmer

A Bangladesh court has sentenced five men to death for the murder of a Japanese man more than a year ago.

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Hundreds of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar have returned home

Hundreds of Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar have returned home, community leaders said Sunday, adding that most had gone back temporarily to fetch relatives.

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Malaysian ship with aid for Rohingya refugees from Myanmar docks in S. Bangladesh

A Malaysian ship carrying 2,100 tons of aid for tens of thousands of persecuted Rohingya refugees from Myanmar arrived in southeastern Bangladesh on Monday.

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How Bangladesh is drinking itself to death

“Certified arsenic-free”. The traveller, new to Bangladesh and taking out a bottle of drinking water with this strange label from their hotel fridge, may smile in puzzlement.

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In fear of their lives after militant attacks, gay Bangladeshis retreat into closet

​Seven months after al-Qaeda-linked militants hacked Bangladesh’s most prominent gay activist to death, the South Asian country’s LGBT community remains in hiding, while more than a dozen LGBT people have fled abroad.

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China, Bangladesh lift ties to strategic partnership of cooperation

​Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday. The two leaders agreed to upgrade bilateral ties to a strategic partnership of cooperation.

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Bangladesh PM says Chinese president's visit to usher in new era in bilateral cooperation

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed confidence that the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping would usher in "a new era of intensive cooperation" in trade, investment and other sectors between the two nations.

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President Xi's Bangladesh visit announcement receives wide media coverage

All mainstream Bangladesh media outlets published news on Chinese President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to Dhaka.

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Chinese president's Bangladesh visit will lift bilateral ties to new high

​The upcoming visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Bangladesh is a diplomatic boost that heralds a new era in relations between the two countries, said an influential member of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Cabinet.

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30 missing after ferry capsizes in Bangladesh

An overcrowded ferry capsized and sank in southern Bangladesh on Wednesday, leaving around 30 people missing after the latest in a long series of river accidents in the country.

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ADB suggests economic diversification, job skills to accelerate growth in Bangladesh

Improved infrastructure and a more diversified economy can help Bangladesh increase economic growth, create meaningful jobs and enhance structural transformation as a thriving middle-income economy, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Thursday.

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Six U.S. senators urge Obama to prioritize cyber crime at G20 summit

Six U.S. senators have urged President Barack Obama to prioritize cyber crime at this weekend's Group of 20 summit in China, in the wake of the theft of $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank, according to a letter obtained by Reuters.

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Bangladesh supreme court upholds death penalty for Islamist party leader

Bangladesh's highest court on Tuesday rejected appeal from an influential leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party who was sentenced to death in 2014 for war crimes including mass killings.

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US Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Bangladesh, meets PM after extremist attacks

United States Secretary of State John Kerry held talks with Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on combatting extremism on Monday (Aug 29) as the police killed members of an Islamist group blamed for a deadly cafe siege.

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Final verdict on Bangladesh Islamist party leader's death sentence set on Aug. 30

Bangladesh's apex court on Aug. 30 will deliver its final verdict on the review petition filed by an influential leader of the country's largest Islamist party, who was sentenced to death in 2014 for war crimes including mass killings.

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Bangladesh police shoot dead suspected cafe attack mastermind

Bangladesh police stormed a militant hideout just outside Dhaka Saturday, shooting dead three Islamist extremists, including the suspected mastermind of an attack on a cafe that killed 22 mostly foreign hostages last month.