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Bangladesh suspends the entry of travellers from South Africa amid fears of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant first detected in Botswana.
2021-11-27

A Burundian UN peacekeeper is killed in a rebel ambush near Grimari in Ouaka, Central African Republic, acccording to MINUSCA. Two Bangladeshi peacekeepers are also wounded in the attack.
2021-01-15

Bangladesh's finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, downplays the impact of last week's factory-building collapse on his country's garment industry.
2013-05-3

Protesters are also reported to have stormed Syrian embassies in Kuwait, Egypt, Australia, Germany and Greece.
2012-02-4

Activists allege that medical workers have been arrested for treating anti-government protesters.
2011-04-26

Tunisian revolution: Thousands of people demonstrate in Tunis to demand both the resignation of interim prime minister Beji Caid el Sebsi, a link with the old guard brought down in January's popular revolution, and the prosecution of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after being ousted, on charges such as murder and drug-trafficking.
2011-04-24

Reuters reports that the President of the United States Barack Obama has signed an order authorising covert help for the rebels.
2011-03-30

French jet destroys a Libyan plane that breached the no-fly zone.
2011-03-24

The Syrian government pledges a series of reforms in response to the unrest, including lifting the state of emergency law and allowing other political parties.
2011-03-24