Eight Islamic extremists were sentenced to death in Bangladesh for the murder of a publisher on Wednesday, as the Muslim-majority nation grapples with tensions between religious hardliners and secularists.

Eight Islamists get death in Bangladesh over publisher’s murder

At one time, several countries in Europe including Britain, France, and Portugal ruled most of the rest of the world in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Europeans entered these impoverished regions as traders and then found that they could dominate these countries by exploiting the illiteracy of the local population and the enmity and conflicts between the local chieftains.

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Two days after a Russian-born Islamist beheaded a teacher, the French government is preparing to expel 231 foreigners for suspected extremist religious beliefs. Also read | Fatwa was launched against beheaded teacher: French minister French history teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded on Friday outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in the northern Paris suburbs, by an 18-year-old man who was subsequently shot dead by police.

231 'radicalised' foreign nationals will be expelled from the country: France

French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday that a fatwa has been launched against the beheaded teacher who had shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in class.

Fatwa was launched against beheaded teacher: French minister

By reacting with the doctrine and invading Iraq in 2003, the US committed a series of missteps that indirectly helped foment jihadism

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Al-Qaeda and Islamic State 'know that they will never be able to defeat a nation as great and as strong as America,' he said

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