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Bangladesh votes as iron-lady PM seeks 3rd straight term

Voting was underway Sunday in Bangladesh’s contentious parliamentary elections, seen as a referendum on what critics call Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian rule, amid complaints from both ruling party and opposition activists of attacks on supporters and candidates....

Nearly 120 irregular migrants held across Turkey

A total of 118 irregular migrants were held across Turkey, according to security sources on Saturday. In Turkey's northwestern Edirne province, the security forces held seven irregular migrants after stopping a suspicious vehicle in the Havsa district. In another operation in...

Trump blames Democrats for migrant children deaths

President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed Democrats for the death of two migrant children in U.S. custody who crossed the border from Mexico. "Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people...

Rights groups decry 'crackdown' before Bangladesh polls

A day ahead of parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, over a dozen international rights groups on Saturday expressed concern over an increasingly “restrictive” environment. Sixteen advocacy group for human rights and democracy decried “the restrictive electoral environment...