Who is Sheikh Naim Qassem, Hezbollah’s new chief? | World News newsthirst.

Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah on Tuesday announced that its deputy secretary, Sheikh Naim Qassem, had been elected as the chief of the anti-Israel armed group. Lebanon’s Hezbollah deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem speaks during a rally supporting Palestinians in Gaza.(Reuters file photo) “Hezbollah’s (governing) Shura Council agreed to elect… Sheikh Naim Qassem as secretary general…

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Bangladesh ex-PM Sheikh Hasina’s palace to become revolution museum | World News newsthirst.

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the leader of the caretaker government in Bangladesh, announced on Monday that the former palace of ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be converted into a museum to commemorate the revolution that ousted her. Nobel laureate and chief adviser of Bangladesh’s interim government Muhammad Yunus (4L) as he tours the battered Gonobhaban…

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