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Muhammad Yunus, head of Bangladesh's interim government speaks to members of the media at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Bangladesh will seek extradition of ex-premier Sheikh Hasina from India

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Students and other activists carry Bangladesh's national flag during a protest march organized by Students Against Discrimination to mark one month since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stepped down after a mass uprising, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar) **FILE**

Christians, Hindus, Buddhists seek secular state in Bangladesh in response to violence against them

By Emma Ayers - The Washington Times

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus speaks to the media at the airport as he arrives in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Nobel laureate Yunus arrives in Bangladesh to take over as interim leader

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Volunteers manage road traffic in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar)

Bangladesh’s interim government will take oath on Thursday, says the military chief

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, center, comes out of a courtroom after he was granted bail in an embezzlement case, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Mar. 03, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is granted bail in a Bangladesh graft case

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Mohammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen bank, speaks during a press conference in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 31, 2009. His pioneering bank is owned by the poor borrowers it serves, and sustains itself with local deposits. (FILE: AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasighe)

Bangladesh appeals court grants bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus in labor case

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Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus arrives to appear before a labor court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, Jan.1. 2024. (AP Photo/ Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh court sentences Nobel laureate Yunus to 6 months in jail for violating labor laws

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Prize Winner and Founder of Grameen Bank, speaks during the opening ceremony for the One Young World summit at Soccer City in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. 160 global leaders including more than 100 Nobel laureates have written an open letter on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, to the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, urging her to suspend judicial proceedings against Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus for alleged violation of labor laws. Supporters of Yunus say the charges are politically motivated because of differences he has with the prime minister. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

176 global leaders and Nobel laureates urge Bangladesh to halt cases against Peace Prize winner

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

A worker walks among graves at a special cemetery for people who presumably died of COVID-19 at a cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia Friday, June 12, 2020. As Indonesia’s virus death toll rises, the world’s most populous Muslim country finds itself at odds with protocols put in place by the government to handle the bodies of victims of the pandemic. This has led to increasing incidents of bodies being taken from hospitals, rejection of COVID-19 health and safety procedures, and what some experts say is a lack of communication from the government. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Burial traditions clash with coronavirus safety in Indonesia

By NINIEK KARMINI and VICTORIA MILKO - Associated Press

FILE- In this June 28, 2013 file photo, Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank speaks on the 4th annual Social Business Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A court in Bangladesh's capital Sunday granted bail to micro-credit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus over the firing of three employees by Grameen Communications, where he is chairman. (AP Photo/ A.M.Ahad, File)

Bangladesh grants bail to Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Nobel Peace laureate Yunus to speak at Notre Dame in April

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Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

ZIA: The thankless role in saving democracy in Bangladesh

By Begum Khaleda Zia

Film: Grameen Bank for the poor helps US women

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Amina Shah, a microfinance beneficiary, stitches a shirt as she waits for customers at her shop in a slum in Mumbai. The stories of the poor being empowered by affordable credit have been replaced by headlines about overextended borrowers being driven to suicide. Some lenders are contributing to a cycle of indebtedness and abuse, just like the loan sharks they were to replace. (Associated Press)

Virtue of ‘microfinance’ turning to vice?

By Erika Kinetz - Associated Press

Court defers ruling on Nobel laureate’s dismissal

By Farid Hossain - Associated Press

President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to Dr. Muhammad Yunus, a global leader in anti-poverty efforts, during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House, Wednesday, August 12, 2009.
(Allison Shelley / The Washington Times)

Bangladesh orders Nobel laureate out of microlender

By Farid Hossain - Associated Press