Bangladesh

Lightning strikes kill at least 14 people in Bangladesh during seasonal storms

The deaths were reported from several districts after sudden storms brought heavy rain and intense lightning.

Bolts of lightning strike over Yangon on May 16, 2013. A cyclone slammed into the Bangladeshi coast on May 16 as a million people hunkered down in evacuation shelters, including in a region of Myanmar torn by communal unrest.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar meets with Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi in first diplomatic visit to Somaliland on January 6, 2026.

Israel's Somaliland envoy sparks regional backlash from 15 Arab, Muslim states

AIRPORT HEALTH authorities in protective masks prepare a thermal imager at Soekarno Hatta International Airport, following the implementation of health screening for arriving passengers, after India confirmed two cases of the Nipah virus, in Tangerang near Jakarta, Indonesia, January 30, 2026.

Low risk of deadly Nipah virus spreading from India, World Health Organization reassures

Soldiers sit atop an APC after armed forces were deployed, following a clash during a National Citizen Party rally, in Gopalganj, Bangladesh, July 16, 2025

Bangladesh expresses interest in joining Gaza stabilization force


Greece to protest to Serbia over Ukrainian cargo plane crash - sources

Greek opposition parties have accused the conservative government of not providing information on the cargo and urged it to investigate the incident further.

 Debris is seen at the crash site of an Antonov An-12 cargo plane owned by a Ukrainian company, near Kavala, Greece, July 17, 2022.

Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury - my Zionist friend from Bangladesh

He is a Muslim and a Zionist. He stands for Israel and the Jews. He literally fights our battle.

 A painting of the House of Gosler in which the writer’s family lived before the Holocaust on what used to be Jodenhouttuinen 1, and is now a café in the middle of the Jewish neighborhood of Amsterdam.

What are the prospects for Israel-Bangladesh relations?

We cannot expect things to change overnight, but the removal of the travel restrictions against Israel hints at the prospects of future diplomatic relations.

 A boy poses under a massive Bangladeshi flag in front of the parliamentary building in Dhaka, celebrating the country’s 50th Victory Day anniversary.

Fire at Bangladesh factory kills 52 workers, police open probe

A fire raged thorough a juice-making factory in Bangladesh, now police are investigating who is responsible for the fire.

Firefighters work at the scene of a fire that broke out at a factory named Hashem Foods Ltd. in Rupganj of Narayanganj district, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 9, 2021.

Bangladesh lifts ban on travel to Israel

Passports for Bangladeshi citizens, up until now, have had a caveat written on the document stating that the document was valid in "all countries of the world, except Israel."

A Muslim devotee recites the Koran at the Star Mosque during Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2020

UN says 15 dead, 400 missing in fire at Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

"We still have 400 people unaccounted for, maybe somewhere in the rubble."

A general view of a Rohingya refugee camp after a fire burned down all the shelters in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, March 23, 2021.

End ties with France in 24 hours, Bangladesh Islamist group tells gov't

France has allowed displays of the cartoons, which are considered blasphemous by Muslims.

Supporters and activists of the Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, an Islamist political party, hold placards as they take part in a protest calling for the boycott of French products, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, November 2, 2020

Which countries punish rape with the death penalty?

Following Bangladesh approving the death penalty for rape, it joins a list of other countries that carry out this punishment for the crime.

Old rope with hangman’s noose (illustrative).

Gas pipeline blast kills 17 worshipers in Bangladesh mosque

Authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.

A Muslim devotee recites the Koran at the Star Mosque during Ramadan in Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 26, 2020

A less crowded planet - an expected population decline

True, we will reach a peak in about forty years’ time of 9.7 billion, but by century’s end we will be sliding down the other side of the population mountain quite fast.

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