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November 15, 2018
Bangladesh police detain scores of opposition supporters after violence
DHAKA — Bangladesh police on Thursday detained at least 60 supporters of the main opposition party following violence in the capital Dhaka, triggering accusations that the ruling party is trying to weaken its rivals ahead of a general election next month.The detentions followed altercations on Wednesday between police and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who were accompanying an election candidate who was picking up nomination papers from party ...
November 15, 2018
Rohingya in Bangladesh protest efforts to send them back to Myanmar
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh/YANGON — Hundreds of Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh protested on Thursday against any attempt to send them back to Myanmar after the launch of a repatriation plan was postponed.Bangladesh had begun preparations to repatriate an initial batch of 2,200 Rohingya to Myanmar on Thursday, in line with a plan agreed with Myanmar in October, but by late afternoon no refugees had been moved back across the border, ...
November 15, 2018
Bangladesh photographer detained during protests gets bail
DHAKA — Award-winning Bangladeshi photographer-activist Shahidul Alam was granted bail on Thursday after spending more than 100 days behind bars in a closely watched freedom of speech case.However it was not clear if the 63-year-old would be freed immediately, his lawyers said, as bail orders take time to execute and prosecutors could urgently appeal the decision in a higher court.“We hope his ordeal ends here,” Alam’s lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua said.The ...
November 15, 2018
US star lawyer Avenatti arrested on domestic violence suspicions
LOS ANGELES — Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for an adult film star engaged in a legal battle with Donald Trump, was arrested in Los Angeles on a felony domestic violence charge, police said on Wednesday.The Los Angeles Police Department tweeted that the star attorney was booked in the afternoon and his bail was set at $50,000.The 47-year-old lawyer posted bond and was released late Wednesday. He will make his first ...
November 15, 2018
‘Absolute terror’: Afghans abandon villages under Taliban attack
GHAZNI, Afghanistan — Abdul Rahman and his family drove all night in a rented car to escape the “absolute terror” of escalating violence in Afghanistan’s southeast, joining thousands abandoning their villages in Hazara-dominated districts.Rahman, 65, reached the provincial capital Ghazni on Thursday after a grueling 20-hour journey made even longer by their vehicle breaking down along the way.“People have left their homes and are running for their lives from Jaghori ...
November 15, 2018
Taliban attacks in western Afghanistan kill at least 30 security forces
KABUL — Major assaults by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah bordering Iran, mounted with the aim of weakening the government’s grip on the region, have killed at least 30 Afghan security forces, officials said on Thursday.The Taliban have ramped up attacks in strategic provinces in their battle to expel foreign forces, topple the Western-backed government and restore their version of hardline Islamic law.The latest attack comes four ...
November 15, 2018
Fists fly in Sri Lankan parliament as thousands rally
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s political crisis descended into farce on Thursday with MPs throwing punches and projectiles in parliament, a day after voting the disputed prime minister out of office and leaving the country without a government.Meanwhile, police said tens of thousands of people took part in a rally in Colombo in support of Ranil Wickremesinghe, whose sacking as prime minister plunged the Indian Ocean nation into turmoil almost three ...
November 15, 2018
White House aide Mira Ricardel removed after Melania Trump row
WASHINGTON — An angry Donald Trump pushed out a senior adviser on Wednesday after First Lady Melania Trump demanded her sacking, with more heads set to roll in a White House reshuffle triggered by infighting and setbacks in the midterm elections.Melania Trump made the extremely rare demand for Deputy National Security Adviser Mira Ricardel to be fired on Tuesday, saying “she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this ...
November 15, 2018
French PM: We have to be ready for ‘no-deal’ Brexit
PARIS — French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said on Thursday that ongoing political uncertainty in Britain over Brexit raised concerns about whether the agreement struck with Brussels to leave the European Union would end up being ratified.“We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit,” Philippe said during a visit to Dunkirk, a port city in northern France where locals are concerned about the impact of Brexit ...
November 15, 2018
British PM May battles to save Brexit deal as ministers quit
LONDON — Prime Minister Theresa May battled on Thursday to save a draft divorce deal with the European Union after her Brexit secretary and other ministers quit in protest at an agreement they say will trap Britain in the bloc’s orbit for years.Just over 12 hours after May announced that her team of top ministers had agreed to the terms of the draft agreement, Brexit minister Dominic Raab and work ...
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