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Fishermen on the Gulf of Morrosquillo in Colombia have rescued several groups of Bangladeshi nationals, all apparently shipwrecked after their makeshift vessel en route north collapsed, Colombian media reported Wednesday.

Over 100 planes from India have landed in Britain following the country being placed on the UK’s list of travel prohibited countries over concerns about the Indian variant of the coronavirus.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s borders policies have allowed at least 20,000 travellers from India to enter the country despite concerns over the novel variant of the coronavirus there.

The U.S. State Department is defending Special President Envoy for Climate John Kerry’s trip to China to discuss climate change.

One of Britain’s leading right-leaning newspapers has published a bizarre, glamour-style photo shoot of Shamima Begum, an Islamic State defector accused of sewing terrorists into bomb vests, in an article and on social media. 

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A Bangladeshi satellite television station has hired the country’s first transgender news anchor, saying it hopes the appointment will help change society.

At least 6,500 South Asian migrant workers died in Qatar from 2011-2020, the Guardian reported Tuesday, citing government data from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Qatar.

The Bangladesh Navy on Tuesday shipped nearly 2,000 Rohingya refugees to a remote, flood-prone island that surfaced just 20 years ago in the Bay of Bengal.

A Muslim mob vandalized and burned down at least ten Hindu households and two Hindu temples in Cumilla, Bangladesh, on Sunday after a local man reportedly praised French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments against Islamists’ violent response to satirical cartoons on Facebook.

A Mulsim mob beat a man to death and burned his body after he allegedly desecrated a copy of the Quran, Islam’s holy book, at a mosque in northern Bangladesh on Thursday. A second man attacked by the mob survived and is currently under police protection.

Thousands of Muslims throughout India took to the streets Friday to protest French President Emmanuel Macron’s refusal to criminalize cartoons, resulting in about 2,000 arrests in Madhya Pradesh alone.

An estimated 40,000 people attended a rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday calling for a nationwide boycott of France and government policies meant to hurt the European nation in response to President Emmanuel Macron launching a campaign against radical Islamists.

Convicted rapists in Bangladesh will now face the death penalty, the country’s government announced on Monday.

Authorities arrested a Bangladesh hospital owner on Wednesday for selling thousands of fake coronavirus test results to his patients.

Islamic State defector Shamima Begum will be allowed to return to the United Kingdom to appeal the government’s decision to strip her of her British citizenship.

Tens of thousands of Islamic faithful in Bangladesh defied coronavirus lockdown restrictions Saturday to attend the funeral of revered Muslim cleric Maulana Zubayer Ahmad Ansari.

Tens of thousands of Muslim faithful sparked an outcry in Bangladesh on Wednesday as they defied authorities to hold a mass prayer gathering just as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic.

Amazon.com, Inc. — owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — is selling items manufactured in foreign factories with dangerous working conditions and where workers are treated as slave labor, a new report alleges. 

Police say at least four people have been killed and dozens have been injured after security forces in southern Bangladesh opened fire on a crowd of Muslim demonstrators protesting against an alleged social media post undermining the prophet Muhammad.

The government of Bangladesh on Thursday cleared 3,450 Rohingya Muslim refugees to return to their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, but not a single one of the 295 families approached by Bangladeshi and United Nations officials was willing to go. The Bangladeshis were left with a line of empty trucks and buses pointed at the Myanmar border.

At least 80 Muslims who participated in the annual hajj pilgrimage in Islam’s holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia over the weekend died.

The High Court of England and Wales has rejected an Islamic State volunteer’s bid to overturn a Government decision to deprive him of UK citizenship.

Police across the UK began the first ever national crackdown on forced marriage at a number of airports on Monday as latest figures show a spike in children being trafficked abroad to marry family members or acquaintances.

Hundreds of Chinese and local workers clashed at the construction site of a Beijing-funded power plant near Dhaka, Bangladesh, leaving one person dead and dozens of others wounded, law enforcement reportedly revealed on Wednesday.

Police in Bangladesh announced on Wednesday they have arrested 16 people in connection with the burning death of teenager Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was murdered after filing a complaint of sexual harassment against individuals at her school, including the principal. The girl was set ablaze with kerosene and died from her injuries after four days.

A 19-year-old Bangladeshi woman was soaked with kerosene and then lit on fire after filing a complaint against the headmaster of her Islamic school for sexual harassment.

A 15-year-old boy was raped twice by a Bangladeshi migrant who gave him a cannabis joint which made him feel “dizzy” in Bolton, north-west England.

The Bangladeshi father of ISIS bride Shamima Begum has said the British government was right to strip her citizenship, and that it is her own fault she stuck in Syria.

Croatian police have discovered several dozen migrants hidden in a truck and detained two suspected people smugglers.

COX’S BAZAR,Bangladesh (AP) — Angelina Jolie on Tuesday urged Myanmar to show a genuine commitment to ending violence and displacement in its Rakhine state, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh for safety.

Police officers in Bangladesh are reportedly hunting a “serial killer,” self-described as “Hercules,” for killing at least three accused rapists in recent weeks, several regional news outlets reported over the weekend.

According to a report from Sri Lanka-based think tank LinreAsia, approximately 70 percent of Pakistani people do not know what the Internet is.

Bangladesh last week again postponed plans to begin relocating 100,000 Rohingyas from refugee camps on the Burma (Myanmar) border to the remote island of Bhasan Char in the Sea of Bengal, about an hour’s boat trip from the mainland.

The Justice Department has charged a computer programmer working on behalf of the North Korean government with the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2014, along with the massive WannaCry ransomware attack last year and an $81 million theft from a bank in Bangladesh.

A couple who threatened to murder and “chop up” their daughter after tricking her into travelling to Bangladesh for a forced marriage with her cousin has been jailed for eight years.

The registrar general of India announced on Monday that some four million people have been removed from citizenship rolls in the northeastern state of Assam, which borders Bangladesh.