An Italian navy ship has arrived in Albania with 49 migrants intercepted in international waters for processing of their asylum applications at special Albanian centers

An Italian navy ship has dropped off 49 migrants in Albania after intercepting them in international waters, in the third attempt to carry out a contentious plan to relocate migrants to be processed under a deal between the two countries.

Meenakshi Ganguly on Thursday said Bangladesh’s interim government has taken significant strides towards a democratic and rights-respecting future, but its progress could evaporate without deep institutional reform

An Italian navy ship arrived in Albania on Tuesday with 49 migrants intercepted in international waters, marking the third attempt to process t

After a two-month-long pause, operations to take migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to Italian-run processing centres in Albania will resume, well-informed sources said Friday. Italian Navy patrol vessel Cassiopea is currently close to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa and is ready to transfer migrants to the centres of Shengjin and Gjader which Italy opened last October to process asylum seekers,

The attempt at processing at special centres in Albania follows two previous failures in October and November.

"Bangladesh's interim government has taken significant ... In the World Report, HRW Executive Director Tirana Hassan writes in her introductory essay that in much of the world last year ...

Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel Prize laureate Mohammed Yunus, has set up a commission to investigate enforced disappearances and pledged reforms and accountability for rights abuses under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's authoritarian rule, said the report.