Senior politicians held in Dhaka
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Several senior politicians are arrested in Bangladesh as part of the government's anti-corruption drive.
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Police in Dhaka baton-charged thousands of opposition supporters in violent clashes outside the Bangladesh prime minister's office that left at least 110 people injured, officials said.
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New charges are announced against former Bangladesh PMs Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia.
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Troops took up positions around the Bangladeshi capital and in all major cities and towns on Sunday after the government ordered the deployment to ensure a peaceful run-up to elections next month.
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A former president and former foreign minister of Bangladesh are attacked in the north of the country.
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Six British politicians call for the authorities in Bangladesh to release the former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.
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Bangladesh's government says troops will be deployed across the country ahead of January's elections.
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Bangladesh's security forces arrested at least 13 political leaders including eight former ministers in pre-dawn raids, according to officials and reports.
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Two top politicians are arrested in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) for stoking communal tensions.
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Security forces arrested former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia for corruption on Monday, underlining the interim government's drive to root out graft under an emergency rule imposed eight months ago.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh - A series of bombs exploded at a rally where the top opposition leader was speaking in Bangladesh's capital Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring hundreds, witnesses and news reports said.    Opposition leader Sheikh Hasina was addressing the rally from atop a truck outside the headquarters of her Awami League party in central Dhaka when the blasts went off...
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Senior interior ministry officials are due to meet in Dhaka amidst a souring of ties between India and Bangladesh.
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Police are patrolling the streets of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, after a series of grenade blasts killed at least 16 people. At least seven grenades were thrown at a rally yesterday of more than 3,000 supporters of the main opposition Awami League.
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A former Bangladeshi minister is arrested a day after three politicians were held in an anti-corruption drive.
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Some 50 allegedly corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen in Bangladesh must account for their personal wealth or it will be confiscated, the country's anti-graft body said.
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Khaleda Zia today became the second former prime minister to be detained in an anti-corruption drive by Bangladesh's interim government.
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Troops took up positions around the  Bangladeshi capital and in all major cities and towns on Sunday  after the government ordered the deployment to ensure a  peaceful run-up to elections next month.