{"id":66111,"date":"2024-08-08T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T09:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/muhammad-yunus-arrives-bangladesh-take-office-interim-leader"},"modified":"2024-08-09T00:52:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:52:31","slug":"muhammad-yunus-arrives-in-bangladesh-to-take-office-as-interim-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66111","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Yunus sworn in as interim leader of Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate hopes to restore calm and rebuild country after uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina\u2019s 15-year rule<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/who-is-muhammad-yunus-bangladesh-interim-government-sheikh-hasina\">Profile: who is Muhammad Yunus?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/05\/why-bangladesh-prime-minister-sheikh-hasina-resigned\">Explainer: Why has Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as head of a new caretaker government in Bangladesh in a ceremony that began with a minute\u2019s silence to remember those who were killed in the recent protests.<\/p>\n<p>The swearing-in, led by President Mohammed Shahabuddin, was attended by more than 1,500 guests including politicians, students, protest coordinators and representatives from the military and civil society. Other members of the interim government also took their oaths. Among them Adilur Rahman Khan, a prominent human rights activist who was imprisoned by the ousted regime, and two student leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/muhammad-yunus-arrives-bangladesh-take-office-interim-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate hopes to restore calm and rebuild country after uprising that ended Sheikh Hasina\u2019s 15-year ruleProfile: who is Muhammad Yunus?Explainer: Why has Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled?Muhammad Yunus has been sworn in as head of a new caretaker&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,3119,2816,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-muhammad-yunus","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66131,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66111\/revisions\/66131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}