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  • Bangladeshi student granted bail over deadly cafe attack

    DHAKA: A Bangladesh court on Sunday granted bail to a student of Canada's University of Toronto after police dropped charges against him over alleged involvement in the country's deadliest terrorist attack, police and a lawyer said...

    Khan's family vehemently protested his innocence, saying the 22-year old was in the cafe as a customer and was not associated with the five gunmen who hacked and shot to death the hostages in an attack...

  • Khanabadosh Writers Cafe opens

    HYDERABAD: The Khanabadosh Writers Cafe established on the premises of the Sindh culture department’s Sindh Museum was formally opened on Sunday evening for providing some private space to writers, poets, intellectuals and creative minds...

    The cafe initiative was taken by Amar Sindhu, writer, teacher in Sindh University and woman rights activist...

  • Bangladesh marks first anniversary of cafe attack

    DHAKA: Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday at the site of one of the worst Islamist attacks in Bangladesh’s history to mark the first anniversary of the deadly attack on an upscale Dhaka cafe...

    Weeping mourners laid flowers outside the old premises of the Holey Artisan Bakery, the cafe which five young men armed with guns and knives stormed into on July 1, 2016, taking dozens hostage and killing 22 people...

  • Dhaka cafe attack suspect dies in custody after 'torture'

    DHAKA: A Bangladeshi teenager who police say was a suspect in last week's deadly attack on a Dhaka cafe has died in custody, with his family insisting he was a hostage and alleging torture by security forces...

    Meanwhile the country's police chief said Saturday that extremists from Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), a local militant group blamed by the government for the cafe siege, were behind a separate attack on an Eid...

  • Dutch students open world’s first drone cafe

    THE HAGUE: Would you like a drone with your cocktail? The world’s first cafe using the tiny domestic unmanned aircraft as servers has opened in a Dutch university...

    The pop-up drone cafe will be serving up all weekend as part of celebrations for the “Dream and Dare” festival marking the 60th anniversary of the Eindhoven University of Technology...

  • Bangladesh police shoot dead suspected cafe attack mastermind

    DHAKA: Bangladesh police stormed a militant hideout just outside Dhaka Saturday, shooting dead three extremists, including the suspected mastermind of an attack on a cafe that killed 22 mostly foreign hostages last month...

    He is the Gulshan attack mastermind and the leader of JMB (Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh),” he said, referring to a Bangladeshi-Canadian citizen believed to be behind the attack on the cafe in Dhaka...

  • Bangladesh police kill ‘mastermind’ of Dhaka cafe attack

    DHAKA: Bangladeshi security forces killed three Islamist militants on Saturday, including a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen accused of masterminding an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, police said...

    “The main mastermind of the Holey Artisan (attack) has been eliminated,” she told reporters at her office, referring to the Gulshan cafe incident...

  • Briton arrested over deadly Bangladesh cafe siege

    DHAKA: A British national and a student at a Canadian university who were dining at a Bangladeshi cafe when it was besieged by militants last month have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack...

    Police said Hasnat Karim, a British citizen of Bangladesh origin, and Tahmid Khan, a University of Toronto student, were arrested late on Wednesday in connection with last month’s siege in Dhaka when 20 hostages were...

  • Briton formally arrested over Dhaka cafe carnage

    DHAKA: Bangladeshi police have formally arrested a British national allegedly involved in the deadly Islamist attack on a Dhaka cafe that killed 22 people last month, officials said on Saturday...

    Hasnat Karim, a 47-year-old Briton, had initially been detained along with Tahmid Khan, 22, a University of Toronto student, as a suspect in the attack, which was claimed by the militant Islamic State group...

  • Bangladesh arrests four women in cafe attack

    DHAKA: Police in Bangla­desh arrested on Sunday four female members of a home-grown militant group blamed for a bloody attack on a cafe in which 22 people were killed, most of them foreigners, an officer said...

    The women would be interrogated to determine if they had any link to the Dhaka cafe attack, he said...

  • 20 hostages killed in Dhaka cafe attack, mostly foreigners

    DHAKA: Militants killed 20 hostages, mostly foreigners, many of them hacked to death, after taking them hostage in a Bangladesh cafe overnight, an army spokesman said on Saturday...

    An elite police force stormed the cafe to end the siege on Saturday, rescuing 13 people including one Japanese and two Sri Lankans...

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