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Bangladesh girl burned to death on teacher’s order - police
The death of 19-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi last week sparked protests across the South Asian nation, with the prime minister promising to prosecute all those...
The alliance of parties running against Hasina branded the election "farcical" and urged the country's election commission to void the results.
Three men were shot by police while eight others died in clashes between activists from the ruling Awami League Party and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), police said.
Reuters reporters across the country of 165 million people saw sparse turnout at polling booths in the first fully competitive general election in a decade.
Millions of young new voters are registered to vote in the South Asian nation’s first fully competitive general election in a decade.
The forces are providing security to some 40,000 election booths.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League is seeking its third straight term in Sunday’s election against the main opposition, which boycotted the last vote in 2014.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina approved the anti-narcotics campaign in early May to tackle the spread of methamphetamines.
Hillary Clinton will visit Bangladesh, where the disappearance of an opposition leader has fuelled tensions.