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Bangladesh Cyber Security Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Bangladesh wants digital security, not censorship

By Sajeeb Wazed

International prosecutor signals Rohingya investigation

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IS claims responsibility for Bangladesh explosion

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Myanmar rescue members help an injured passenger in Yangon International airport, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Yangon, Myanmar. A plane operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway while landing Wednesday evening at Myanmar's Yangon International Airport, injuring at least four people including a pilot, an airline official said. Biman spokesman Shakil Meraj said the accident occurred when the Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 aircraft was landing in bad weather after a flight from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. (AP Photo/Aye Win Myint)

Plane skids off wet runway in Myanmar; pilot, 3 others hurt

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FILE- A Dec. 29, 2018 file photo of Bangladesh police's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), a security force focused on combating extremist groups, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Indian and Bangladeshi officials and security experts largely dismissed a fresh threat of violence from an Islamic State-aligned media group, insisting that routine monitoring of would-be militants would prevent a Sri Lanka-style attack from taking place elsewhere in South Asia. Al-Mursalat Media released a graphic on Tuesday of five militants who carried out a 2016 attack at a cafe in the diplomatic enclave of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, according to global terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence. Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for RAB, told The Associated Press that he didn’t place “any great emphasis” on the threat released by the IS-aligned media group. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

South Asian security experts downplay Islamic State threat

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees watch as firefighters douse flames at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. A fire raced through a sprawling camp of Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, destroying more than two dozen huts and a mosque on Wednesday, an official said. (AP Photo)

UN aid chief: No progress so Rohingya can return to Myanmar

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Prayers for Bangladeshi boy killed in Sri Lanka attack

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Smoke and flames rise from the site of a fire at the Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. A fire raced through a sprawling camp of Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, destroying more than two dozen huts and a mosque on Wednesday, an official said. (AP Photo)

Fire guts shanties in Bangladesh Rohingya refugee camp

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Protesters hold placards and gather to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who was killed after she was set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her Islamic school's principal, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, April 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Protesters in Bangladesh after girl is burned to death

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Rohingya refugee children shout slogans during a protest against the repatriation process at Unchiprang refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018. The head of Bangladesh's refugee commission said plans to begin a voluntary repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees to their native Myanmar on Thursday were scrapped after officials were unable to find anyone who wanted to return. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Taking refuge from persecution and violence

By Mohammad Ziauddin

FILE - In this June 4, 2018, file photo, Bangladeshi children sit on garbage piled up by the river Buriganga in Hazaribagh area in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A new report by the United Nations children’s agency says the lives and futures of more than 19 million Bangladeshi children are at risk from colossal impacts of devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change. The UNICEF report released Friday, April 5, 2019 said the tally includes Rohingya refugee children from Myanmar who are living in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh.( AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

UN: Climate disasters imperil Bangladesh kids’ lives, future

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME - A high-rise office building damaged by Thursday's fire is pictured in Dhaka, Bangladesh Friday, March 29, 2019. A Bangladeshi housing official said Friday criminal charges would be filed against the owner of the building where a fire killed dozens of people and which had four upper floors constructed illegally.(AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Bangladesh police arrest building owners over fatal blaze

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 28, 2019, file photo, a firefighter works to douse a fire in a multi-storied office building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The fire in Banani, a busy upscale commercial district, exposed the vulnerabilities hidden behind the glass towers that have become symbols of Bangladesh’s rapid growth. While Bangladesh’s economy has expanded by more than 6 percent annually in the last decade, safety regulations and enforcement have lagged behind, experts say. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu, File)

Bangladesh building fire exposes safety vulnerabilities

By JULHAS ALAM and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

In this image made from video, firetrucks hose down a building on fire in the Banani area of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 28, 2019. An official in the Fire Department control room says the fire had broken out in an office building in Bangladesh's capital, and some people are feared trapped inside. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh high-rise office building catches fire; 17 dead

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Bangladesh: We’ll become unable to take new Myanmar refugees

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

CORRECTS FIRST NAME This photograph released Monday by Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from their criminal database shows Bangladeshi youth Mohammed Polash Ahmed who was arrested in 2012 by RAB in a kidnapping case. The man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who may not have been armed, officials said Monday, in a reversal of previous allegations that he was carrying a pistol. ( Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion via AP)

Criminal case filed over Bangladesh hijacking attempt

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Bangladesh’s state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight is seen after it made an emergency landing at the airport in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Sunday, Feb.24, 2019. A Bangladesh air force official says the flight from the capital, Dhaka, bound for Dubai made the emergency landing, after a man allegedly attempted to hijack the plane. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh police identify suspect in failed plane hijacking

By JULHAS ALAM and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Firefighters work to douse flames in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. A devastating fire raced through at least five buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital and killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury)

The Latest: Death toll in Bangladesh fire lowered to 67

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, photo, firefighters try to douse flames in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A devastating fire raced through at least five buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital and killed scores of people. (AP Photo)

Fire guts ancient part of Bangladesh’s capital, killing 81

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

In this image made from a video, firefighters and local people gather near smoldering buildings in Dhaka, Bangladesh Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. A devastating fire has raced through buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital, causing casualties. (AP Photo)

The Latest: Fire in Bangladesh’s capital kills at least 69

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