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Bangladesh tightens security after bomb attacks in capital

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Bangladesh tightens security after bomb attacks in capital

2025-11-17 16:58 Last Updated At:11-18 12:21

A series of crude bomb explosions that rattled Dhaka on Sunday have prompted overnight security reinforcement throughout Bangladesh's capital and other regions, according to police.

There were no casualties reported in the explosions.

The blasts exacerbated existing tensions in the city already shaken by days of turmoil. They came one day before Monday's verdict on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her top aides for alleged involvement in violence during last year's street protests.

A special tribunal in Dhaka on Monday sentenced Hasina in absentia to death for crimes against humanity during the country's July uprising in 2024.

The tribunal has ordered 78-year-old Hasina to return from India and face trial. She is accused of ordering a violent police response to a student protest, which led to her being removed from power last year.

Bangladesh's former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal was also awarded the death penalty, while former Inspector General of Bangladesh Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in the case.

Bangladesh tightens security after bomb attacks in capital

Bangladesh tightens security after bomb attacks in capital

The United States will impose 10-percent tariffs on all goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and Finland over Greenland starting on Feb. 1, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday.

Those tariffs would increase to 25 percent on June 1, and would continue until a deal is reached for the United States to purchase Greenland, he said on social media.

On Friday, Trump said at a White House event that he "may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland," because the U.S. need Greenland "for national security."

Greenland has a self-governing government within the Kingdom of Denmark, with Copenhagen retaining authority over its defense and foreign policies. The United States maintains a military base on the island. Since returning to the White House in 2025, Trump has repeatedly expressed a strong desire to "obtain" Greenland by any mean.

Trump says U.S. to impose tariffs on 8 European nations over Greenland

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