Bangladesh

Hasina's departure appears to have defused the high tension in Dhaka, where more deadly protests were feared on Monday.

Bangladesh is on the boil again with close to 100 people killed on Sunday as protesters, calling for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's resignation, ...

Summary · Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the country after anti-government protests in which hundreds of people have been killed · Reports say ...

Media reports said she had flown in a military helicopter with her sister and was headed to the eastern Indian state of West Bengal just across the border.

The Bangladeshi military facilitated Hasina's "safe passage" out of the country and the army chief is expected to make a speech on Monday.

The 76-year-old Ms Hasina had ruled the South Asian nation of 170 million with an iron fist since 2009 - just a month ago, protests demanding her resignation ...

Just over a month after he became Bangladesh's army chief, General Waker-Uz-Zaman has been thrust into the limelight, announcing the resignation of Prime ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's prime minister resigned and fled the country Monday, after weeks of protests against a quota system for government jobs ...

The country's army chief said an interim government would be formed. Dozens of protesters were killed on Sunday as they challenged Prime Minister Sheikh ...

The prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, resigned on Monday after weeks of deadly anti-government demonstrations gripped the South Asian nation.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed has resigned and left the country after weeks of student-led protests spiralled into deadly, ...

Protesters stormed the residence of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, with images from local television showing the apparent looting of furniture.

Prime minister reportedly flees to India after weeks of antigovernment protests. People shout slogans as they take part in a protest against Prime Minister ...

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned after weeks of deadly anti-government protests, putting an end to more than two decades at the top of ...

Reactions as Hasina is forced to resign and flee the country after weeks of deadly unrest in the country.

Sheikh Hasina, who resigned as Bangladesh's prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of protests, has been one of the dominant figures ...

Student-led protests just brought down the country's leadership. What happens next to the young democracy is unclear.

This follows the weeks of protests over job quotas that saw clashes between protestors and ruling party supporters, and several instances of police ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who once brought democratic hope to Bangladesh, turned increasingly autocratic and met her downfall in a crackdown on ...

Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that ...

Bangladesh's army chief says he'll form an interim government after the long-serving prime minister fled the country amid outrage over violent crackdowns ...

Bangladesh's army chief will meet student protest leaders on Tuesday as the country awaits the formation of a new government a day after Prime Minister ...

A key organizer of Bangladesh's student protests says Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus is their choice as head of an interim government a day after ...

Yunus, known as the 'banker to the poor', is the choice of the student movement to head the new interim government.

Head of Bangladesh Nationalist Party was an opponent of Prime Minister Hasina, who resigned and fled the country.

Inside Bangladesh it's being dubbed a Gen Z revolution – a protest movement that pitted mostly young student demonstrators against a 76-year-old leader who ...

Bangladesh's parliament has been dissolved, paving the way for an interim government that protest leaders said should be led by Nobel laureate Muhammad ...

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of the global microcredit movement who could shepherd Bangladesh's new interim government, was an arch foe of ...

Demonstrators defied a curfew, expecting another in a series of bloody crackdowns, but instead Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled.

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's president dissolved parliament Tuesday, clearing the way for new elections to replace the longtime prime minister who ...

The dissolution of parliament, a key demand of protesters, paves the way for an interim government.

In a move that would have seemed unimaginable just a few weeks ago, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ended a decade and a half of uninterrupted rule ...

Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, has emerged as a central figure in talks about an interim government. The ousted prime minister largely saw ...

Sheikh Hasina resigned as Bangladesh's prime minister and fled the country on Monday following weeks of dedly protests that began as demonstrations by ...