DHAKA, Bangladesh — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was Bangladesh’s opposition leader in 2007, when hundreds of troops raided her home and took her to a court in the capital of Dhaka, where she was arrested on extortion charges. Hasina, who had served as premier in 1996-2001, slammed the charges as a conspiracy to keep her … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah, who led the oil-rich nation for the past three years in a low-key reign focused on trying to resolve internal political disputes, died Dec. 16. He was 86. Kuwait state television broke into programming with Quranic verses … Read more
Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, leader of the Gulf Nation of Kuwait, died aged 86 on Saturday, Kuwait state television announced. The emir of the oil-rich country, sandwiched between Saudi Arabia and Iraq, had ruled for three years. Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah Al-Sabah, the minister of the Emiri Court, announced the leader’s death in a statement … Read more