
Contents: Decaying stadiums from 2004 Athens Olympics have new lives housing migrants; Greece transports migrants from Macedonian border back to Athens; Migrants blocked from Macedonia face difficult choices
by John J. Xenakis11 Dec 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The Islamic State’s affiliate in Bangladesh claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shiite mosque that killed one person and injured three others.
by Jordan Schachtel27 Nov 2015, 10:06 AM PST0

Contents: Migrants blocked at Macedonian border sew their mouths shut; Ukraine suspends all commercial trade with occupied Crimea; Ukraine and Russia in tit-for-tat escalating sanctions; Steel and other commodity prices continue to plummet
by John J. Xenakis24 Nov 2015, 6:21 AM PST0

BBC News reports that two Bangladeshi Islamist leaders have been executed for war crimes committed in the 1971 war of independence: Two Bangladesh opposition leaders have been executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan. Salahuddin
by Breitbart News22 Nov 2015, 6:30 AM PST0

Publishers, writers, and bloggers in Bangladesh have had enough of their colleagues being executed simply for expressing secular beliefs and critiquing Islam.
by Jordan Schachtel2 Nov 2015, 8:37 PM PST0

Media in Bangladesh are reporting that they received a threatening email from a banned radical Islamic group. Police are investigating the incident.
by Mary Chastain20 Oct 2015, 7:24 PM PST0

On Thursday, Bangladesh celebrated the extraordinary rat-slaying achievements of 55-year-old farmer Abdul Khaleq Mirbohor, who took national honors plus a cash prize valued at $250 USD, for leading a team of mostly female volunteers in the killing of some 160,000 rats.
by John Hayward9 Oct 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

Bangladesh joins the list of nations battling ISIS-linked insurgent groups, with a string of brutal murders perpetrated by a militia linked to the Islamic State, plus a few killings said to have been carried out by direct operatives of ISIS itself.
by John Hayward7 Oct 2015, 9:21 PM PST0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed its militants murdered a Japanese tourist in northern Bangladesh over the weekend. The murder comes only five days after the radical Islamic group claimed responsibility for the murder of an Italian in Dhaka.
by Mary Chastain5 Oct 2015, 8:39 AM PST0

Islamic State (IS) terrorists have claimed responsibility for the execution of an Italian citizen on a street in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital. According to an intelligence group monitoring jihadi threats, Cesare Tavella, 50, was shot three times by assailants on a
by Simon Kent30 Sep 2015, 7:29 AM PST0

The Prime Minister of Bangladesh has warned David Cameron that he needs to do more to tackle domestic Islamic extremism, as British Bangladeshis are funding and exporting Islamism and terrorism into her nation. She argued that closer cooperation is needed to
by Liam Deacon17 Sep 2015, 6:11 AM PST0

The rate of child-marriage in Islamic Bangladesh is accelerating, even though the primitive and damaging practice is technically illegal.
by Mary Chastain28 Aug 2015, 5:59 PM PST0

SITE Intelligence Group reported that the Ansar al-Islam, the Bangladesh branch of the al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS), claimed responsibility for the death of secular blogger Niloy Chakrabartu, who used the pen name Niloy Neel.
by Mary Chastain10 Aug 2015, 12:09 PM PST0

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Assailants believed to be Islamist militants entered an apartment building posing as potential tenants and killed a secular blogger in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday, in the fourth such deadly attack this year, police said. Police official
by Breitbart News8 Aug 2015, 12:58 AM PST0

A mob hacked to death secular blogger Niloy Chakrabartu, who used the pen name Niloy Neel, on Friday in Bangladesh. Chakrabartu is the fourth blogger murdered by alleged radical Islamists in the republic this year.
by Mary Chastain7 Aug 2015, 1:10 PM PST0

Britain has wasted a fortune on funding schemes for foreign police forces that have increased crime, corruption and political repression. Over the past four years, Diana Good, who was appointed to scrutinise Britain’s foreign aid funding, found numerous examples of
by Nick Hallett27 Jul 2015, 5:12 AM PST0

Authorities in Bangladesh are on the hunt for a gang of killers who killed a young boy, as protests break out across the country over the video of the incident the killers posted online. Samiul Alam Rajan, 13, was violently beaten to death by a murderous gang that accused him of stealing a rickshaw.
by Michael Lucchese15 Jul 2015, 2:03 PM PST0

Contents: Australia accused of paying people smugglers to take migrants to Indonesia; Pakistan shuts down ‘Save the Children’ and threatens other NGOs; France’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn acquitted of ‘aggravated pimping’
by John J. Xenakis13 Jun 2015, 8:44 AM PST0

Comments about the Bangladeshi Prime Minister made by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi ignited a firestorm on Twitter this Sunday. “I am happy that the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, despite being a woman, is openly saying that she has zero tolerance for terrorism. I would like to congratulate Sheikh Hasina for her courage to deal with terrorism with zero tolerance,” Modi said at Dhaka University.
by Michael Lucchese8 Jun 2015, 7:49 PM PST0

(Reuters) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take border settlement and water sharing deals to Bangladesh next month as part of his drive to erode Chinese influence in South Asia, although Dhaka is likely to remain dependant on Beijing for military equipment.
by Reuters28 May 2015, 6:04 AM PST0

Contents: Indonesia and Malaysia back down and accept stranded Rohingya migrants; Iran backs down and allows inspection of aid ship to Yemen;
by John J. Xenakis22 May 2015, 6:16 AM PST0

The European Union on Monday approved a multi-phase military operation to defeat human smugglers who are trafficking migrants from Libya to Europe. Smugglers have been charging migrants thousands of dollars each to make the trip, and there’s no guarantee of reaching Europe or even of surviving.
by John J. Xenakis19 May 2015, 7:23 PM PST0

Nearly 800 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh were rescued by local fishermen when their boat sank off the eastern coast of Indonesia. The migrants were brought to shore, given food and water, and placed in a warehouse.
by John J. Xenakis17 May 2015, 8:22 PM PST0

For the third time this year, Islamist radicals in Bangladesh hacked a secular writer to death in public.
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)12 May 2015, 9:34 AM PST0

Saudis and Houthis escalate Yemen war further, prior to ‘ceasefire'; EU seeks approval of military action in Libya against migrant traffickers
by John J. Xenakis12 May 2015, 4:00 AM PST0