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China, Bangladesh lift ties to strategic partnership of cooperation

Dhaka, Bangladesh (Reuters) — Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday and the two leaders agreed to upgrade bilateral ties to a strategic partnership of cooperation. During the meeting, Xi said that the closer comprehensive partnership of cooperation the two sides forged in 2010 has yielded fruitful results, with bilateral cooperation advancing steadily in political, economic, cultural, and security, as well as on international and regional affairs. […]

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Security tight in Bangladesh for strike over Islamist’s hanging

DHAKA , Bangladesh (AFP) — Bangladesh Thursday deployed thousands of police in the capital to prevent violence, after the main Islamist party called a nationwide strike to protest against its leader’s execution for warcrimes. Jamaat-e-Islami party president Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged late on Tuesday following his conviction for the massacre of intellectuals during Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Clashes erupted in the northwest and the south of the country on Wednesday, with […]

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