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Bangladesh to form interim govt.

People take to the streets of Bangladesh and the UK to celebrate the end of PM Sheikh Hasina's 15-year rule after more than a month of deadly protests. General Waker-Uz-Zaman, Bangladesh's army chief, says Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned and fled the capital. He called for calm and announced that an interim government will run the country. The general added that the country’s president and opposition parties have been consulted over the issue. Earlier, protesters stormed the prime minister’s official residence in Dhaka angered by the violence they faced during nationwide anti-government rallies on Sunday. More than 90 people were killed and hundreds injured. 20 people were also killed in Dhaka on Monday. Bangladesh has witnessed unrest since last month, when a crackdown on a student protest over a job quota plan left over 200 people dead.

Genocidal war on Gaza

In the besieged Gaza Strip more Palestinians lose their lives in relentless Israeli attacks. Health officials have announced that the latest Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 18 people and injured several more. This raised the number of Palestinian civilians killed during the past day to forty. In central Gaza, rescue teams are still searching for those missing in a bombing of two schools that killed at least thirty civilians, most of them children on Sunday. Meanwhile, the military wing of Hamas says its fighters targeted a group of Israeli troops inside a building east of Khan Younis, killing and injuring all of them. Also, Palestinian resistance fighters carried out a missile operation against Israeli settlements in the occupied lands. The Israeli genocidal war since October 7 last year, has claimed nearly 40,000 Palestinian lives leaving more than 91,000 others injured.

Iran-Russia security ties

Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu is paying a visit to Iran aimed at enhancing political and security relations. The top security official is in the capital Tehran at the invitation of his counterpart, Ali Akbar Ahmadian. He is scheduled to meet with Iran’s senior military and security officials as well as President Masoud Pezeshkian. Meetings will focus on bolstering bilateral cooperation across various sectors, including security. The talks are also expected to address the latest international and regional developments. Shoigu’s visit comes as Iran has vowed to avenge the Israeli killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran last week.

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