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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Days ahead of her 79th birthday, Bangladesh’s first female Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is set to get a welcome gift: release from house arrest after anti-government protests ousted her bitter rival Sheikh Hasina from power. President Mohammed Shahabuddin ordered the immediate release of Zia, chief of the main opposition …

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By Ruma Paul and Sudipto Ganguly DHAKA (Reuters) – Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the pioneer of the global microcredit movement who could shepherd Bangladesh’s new interim government, was an arch foe of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who has resigned and fled the country. Known as the “banker to the poor”, Yunus and the Grameen Bank …

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By Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. government commended Bangladesh’s army on Monday for its “restraint” and urged the democratic formation of an interim government after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the South Asian country. Hasina’s exit came after hundreds of people were killed in a crackdown on demonstrations that …

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(Reuters) -Here are some reactions to the news that Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina has resigned as prime minister and fled the country following violent street protests. BANGLADESHIS IN LONDON In Whitechapel, a London neighbourhood home to a large Bangladeshi community, many took to the streets to celebrate. Waving their national flag and honking car horns, they …

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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation after weeks of violent protests, announced on Monday in a televised address by the army chief, has brought focus once more to the country’s history of political upheaval and coups. 1975 The country’s first Prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father, was assassinated along with …

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(Reuters) – Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s resignation is a “possibility”, the AFP news agency reported on Monday citing a senior aide, after days of deadly unrest in the country. (Reporting by Shivam Patel in New Delhi)