RUSSIA: Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said today it has end operations in the country after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign non-governmental organisations.

MSF said it would retain its branch office in Moscow, but operations, run by its Dutch affiliate, have stopped. It was MSF Netherlands whose registration was withdrawn, a group spokesman said.

BANGLADESH: Thousands of activists and leaders of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party rallied in the capital  Dhaka today to demand a democratic transition through an election as the interim government has yet to set a timeframe for new voting.