A divided federal appeals court has thrown out a plea agreement that would have allowed accused “9/11 mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, US media report. Judges in Washington DC rejected the agreement, which would have given Mohammed and the other defendants a life...
Christopher Giles, Riddhi Jha, Rafid Hossain and Tarekuzzaman Shimul BBC Eye Investigations and BBC Bangla AFP A deadly crackdown on student-led protests in Bangladesh last year was authorised by then prime minister Sheikh Hasina, according to audio of one of her phone calls verified by BBC Eye. In the audio, which was leaked online in...