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Bangladesh police work to identify perpetrators of deadly Dhaka attack

Police in Bangladesh are working to confirm the identities of a group of men who carried out a deadly attack on a restaurant in Dhaka, in which 20 hostages and two police officers were…

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Bangladesh mourns after suspected Islamist militants storm upmarket cafe in the capital

Bangladesh has begun two days of mourning after suspectic Islamist militants stormed an upmarket restaurant in the capital, Dhaka.

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Italy mourns at least nine nationals killed in Bangladesh terror attack

Italy is mourning nine of its nationals killed in Friday’s militant attack on a café in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka.

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Renzi and Abe condemn "despicable act of terrorism"

Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi condemned the attack and vowed not to give in terrorism.

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Islamist gunmen kill 20 hostages, mainly foreigners, in Bangladeshi capital

The victims include at least nine Italians and possibly Japanese nationals.

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Bangladesh ISIL attack: 20 foreigners killed, 13 hostages freed after Dhaka cafe siege ends

Several Italians died in the attack, claimed by the group calling itself Islamic State.

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Bangladesh police storm Dhaka siege café, 'several hostages freed'

Bangladeshi police have stormed a café in Dhaka trying to free 20 hostages including several foreigners – trapped inside after gunmen attacked it on Friday…

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Bangladesh police storm Dhaka restaurant after gun attack and siege

Bangladeshi police have stormed a restaurant in Dhaka trying to free 20 hostages including several foreigners – trapped inside after gunmen attacked it on Friday…

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Bangladesh police storm Dhaka restaurant after gun attack and siege

Bangladeshi police have stormed a restaurant in Dhaka trying to free 20 hostages including several foreigners – trapped inside after gunmen attacked it on Friday…

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Hindu priest hacked to death in Bangladesh

Suspected militants in Bangladesh have hacked to death an elderly Hindu priest.

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Deadly cyclone in Bangladesh

The coasts of Bangladesh have been hit by a cyclone which has killed at least 21 people and injured many others.

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Bangladeshi Islamist leader Motiur Rahman Nizami executed for war crimes

An Islamist leader has been hanged in Bangladesh for war crimes committed in 1971. Seventy three-year-old Motiur Rahman Nizami was executed on

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Bangladesh: US embassy worker and gay rights activist is hacked to death

The US State Department has expressed its outrage after two men – one of whom worked at the American embassy in Bangladesh and edited the country’s

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University professor hacked to death in Bangladesh

A university professor has been hacked to death in northwest Bangladesh – the latest to die in a series of attacks on liberal activists in the

Economy

Bangladesh central bank boss resigns over cyber heist, money hunt continues

Bangladesh's central bank governor has resigned over the theft by hackers of $81 million (73 million euros) as investigators try to track where that money went.

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Bangladesh cyber bank heist blame game underway

The blame game is underway in Bangladesh after computer hackers stole the equivalent of 73 million euros from the central bank and nearly got away with 10 times as much

Sport

Cricket: Below-par Bangladesh hold off Dutch at ICC World T20

After Zimbabwe and Afghanistan, Bangladesh were the third team to chalk up a victory at the sixth edition of the ICC World Twenty20 when they beat

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Quasem Ali's death sentence upheld by Bangladesh's Supreme Court

Bangladesh’s highest court has upheld the death penalty for Quasem Ali, one of the leaders of the Jamaat-e-Islami party. A five-judge panel led by

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Killers of Bangladesh blogger are given death penalty

Two former students were sentenced to death in Bangladesh on Thursday for the murder of a secular blogger in 2013. Only one of the pair was present