Bangladesh

More than 30% of public service jobs were reserved for families of veterans who served in Bangladesh’s war of independence. The Supreme Court has now ordered that quota be reduced to around 5%.

Student protests have turned deadly in Bangladesh, where demonstrators are calling for an end to a “discriminatory” jobs quota system.

Former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger has died aged 100. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973.