Bangladesh

At least five migrants stuck on the Greek-Macedonian border on Monday sewed their lips in protest at not being allowed to continue their journey to Europe, AFP reporters said.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Nov. 22 that it felt "sorrow" over the execution of two opposition leaders in "brother Bangladesh," calling for national reconciliation.

"Turkey, a country that abolished capital punishment, preserves its belief that execution is not a way to heal past wounds," the ministry said in a press release.

Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Nov. 22 for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters.

Turkey has moved down five places, ranking 130th among 145 countries, in the "Global Gender Gap Index" released annually by the World Economic Forum, despite a slight increase in its scores. 

The report measures gender gap by evaluating data in four areas: economic participation and opportunity, access to education, political empowerment and health and survival. 

Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's minister for refugees, on Thursday said Serbia would no longer allow in "economic" migrants after Slovenia and Croatia announced they had barred such migrants from their countries.

Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Nov. 18 rejected final appeals from two opposition leaders against death sentences for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, rulings that are likely to spark protests by their supporters.

During the times when Pakistan and Bangladesh were still one and this journalist was still a young beginner of the profession, there was a Pakistani journalist, Hossain Shahadat, who spared time and energy to explain the deliquescence of souls in the Indus River...

In a gruesome, bloody festival muslims all over the world have been slashing themselves with sharp blades, covering their bodies in mud and lighting bonfires in the streets to mourn the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson today.

By Melissa Fleming

After Hungary, Croatia appears ready to close its border to war refugees, mostly desperate Syrian and Iraqis, but also to huge groups of third country nationals from as far as away as Bangladesh exploiting the refugee crisis to illegally enter Europe until they reach their desired destination.