Walter Kaelin, the representative of the UN secretary general on the human rights of internally displaced persons, on Tuesday warned of a "blood bath" if tens of thousands
Since coming to power, the Awami Legaue Grand Alliance has promised to bring to trial those accused of war crimes during the 1971 "Liberation War", which ended with
Lt General (ret'd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury stepped down on Thursday from his position as head of Bangladesh's Independent Anti-Corruption Commission. Beyond alluding cryptically to an awkward
Barack Obama faced his first foreign policy setback today since being sworn in as US president as European allies seem likely to resist pressure to increase troop deployments in Afghanistan.
Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based militant group thought to be behind the Mumbai bombings, said on Wednesday that "the coming days would prove costly for Indian forces" in Kashmir. The
The government of Bangladesh is currently investigating links between a UK-based NGO and a madrassa housing a substantial cache of arms. Security officials in Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion
The week in Bangladesh began dramatically when a fire broke out on the seventeenth floor of Dhaka's Bashundhara City complex on Friday afternoon, killing seven and injuring fifty.
Both Israeli and Palestinian political landscapes seemed trapped in a malaise yesterday as both reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah and Israeli Prime Minister designate Benjamin Netanyahu's efforts
On Thursday, three international aid workers from the Belgian arm of Medicins Sans Frontiers (MSF) were reportedly kidnapped in Saraf Omra in north Darfur. The aid workers have been identified
