Bangladesh

• Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s First Female Prime Minister, Dies - A leader for three terms, she traded the country’s leadership with Sheikh Hasina, the head of another political dynasty, over decades. She was believed to be 80.
• A funeral for slain Bangladeshi activist draws hundreds of thousands - Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Saturday of a leading Bangladeshi activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained in an attack in Dhaka earlier this month, as political tensions gripped the country ahead of elections. Sh
• UK lawmaker Tulip Siddiq handed jail sentence in absentia in Bangladesh graft case - DHAKA/LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court sentenced British lawmaker and former minister Tulip Siddiq in absentia to two years in jail on Monday ​in a corruption case involving the alleged illegal allocation of a plot of land, pros