BANGLADESH-SANITATION VICTORY — Through a dogged campaign to build toilets and educate Bangladeshis about the dangers of open defecation, the densely populated South Asian nation has managed to reduce the number of people who defecate in the open to just 1 percent of the 166 million population, according to the government — down from 42 percent in 2003.
FILE – In this March 25, 2016, file photo, Bangladeshi activists of various Islamic political groups and other Muslims shout slogans after Friday prayers during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The July 1, 2016 deadly attack, the worst in a wave of violence waged by radical Islamists in recent years, speaks to a deeper divide within the nation of 160 million – one that has pitted secularists against those yearning for Islamic rule since the country won independence from Pakistan in a bloody war in 1971. (AP Photo, File)
BANGLADESH ATTACK — Police in Bangladesh have denied they’re still holding anyone rescued during this month’s bloody attack on a restaurant by radical Islamists, saying they’ve questioned and released two former hostages reportedly missing since the attack.
FILE- In this Sept. 30, 2015 file photo, a bruised Asgari Begum, mother of 52-year-old Muslim farmer Mohammad Akhlaq who was killed over rumors he slaughtered a cow, stands by the entrance of her home in Bisara, a village about 45 kilometers (25 miles) southeast of the Indian capital of New Delhi. Ten months after a mob in northern India killed Akhlaq, his family faces prosecution for alleged cow slaughter following a neighbor’s complaint, police said Saturday, July 16, 2016. The court acted on a forensic report that said the meat found in a dustbin outside the family’s home was beef or the meat of “a cow or its progeny.” Hindus consider cows to be sacred, and for many, eating beef is taboo. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
INDIA-KILLING OVER BEEF — Ten months after a mob in northern India killed a Muslim man over rumors that he had slaughtered a cow, his family faces prosecution for alleged cow slaughter following a neighbor’s complaint.
PAKISTAN-MODEL KILLED — Police say Pakistani fashion model Qandeel Baloch, who recently stirred controversy by posting pictures of herself with a Muslim cleric on social media, was strangled to death by her brother.
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