Bangladesh: Nobel Laureate Takes Over as Interim Government Head

Mohammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, will assume the leadership of the interim government in Bangladesh following the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her subsequent flight from the country. Leaders of student protests, heads of the three branches of the military, civil society members, and some business leaders held a meeting with the president for over five hours late Tuesday to decide on the interim administration. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh resigned and left the country on Monday after weeks of protests against the quota system in government jobs, which escalated into violence and posed the biggest challenge to her 15-year rule.