Photos: Celebrations after PM Sheikh Hasina resigns, flees Bangladesh
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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina resigns, flees country, military takes over
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s 15-year rule of the country ended on Monday as she fled weeks of deadly protests and the military announced it would form an interim government.
Strategically important military HQ appears to have fallen to Myanmar resistance in a blow to regime
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military regime acknowledged Monday it had lost communications with the commanders of a strategically important army headquarters in the northeast, adding credence to claims from a militia group it had captured the base.
Bangladesh protesters make defiant call for march on Dhaka
Tension is rising as protesters call for mass mobilisation in the face of deadly crackdown and national curfew.
Myanmar junta says senior officers held as rebels take over major base
NAYPYIDAW — Myanmar's junta has lost communications with senior officers at a major military base near the Chinese border, it said in a rare admission of battlefield failure after rebels announced they have taken control of the key regional army headquarters.
Ex-PM of Pakistan Imran Khan, jailed for corruption, seeks open dialogue with army
Ahead of Monday’s anniversary of his jailing on dozens of charges ranging from corruption to leaking state secrets, Khan also said in written responses to journalists’ questions that he held no grudges against the United States, whom he has also blamed for his 2022 removal from office.
Bangladesh protests demand Hasina resign, army stands ‘by the people’
Huge crowds of protesters, many wielding sticks, packed into Dhaka’s central Shahbagh Square, with street battles in multiple sites as well as in other major cities, police said.
