BANGLADESH

The worst disaster to befall the Islamic event in a quarter of a century occurred on Thursday as two large groups of pilgrims arrived together at a crossroads in Mina, a few kilometres outside the holy city.
"The latest statistics up to this hour reveal 769 dead. That is an increase of 52 on the previous figures," Saudi health minister Khalid al-Falih told a news conference.
"Those are the ones who died in various hospitals since the event," he said, adding that 934 people were wounded.
Shia Muslim Iran, which is locked in a series of proxy wars in Arab countries around the Sunni Muslim kingdom, says that at least 136 Iranians are among the dead, sparking protests and outrage in the Islamic Republic on Friday.
Over 300 other Iranians remain unaccounted for, including former ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi, Fars news agency reported.
"We will urge international courts and circles to start the trial of the Saudis for their crimes against Hajj pilgrims," Iran's Prosecutor General Ebrahim Raisi was quoted as saying by student news agency ISNA on Saturday.
"This is not incompetence, it's a crime," Raisi told state broadcaster IRIB.
At the UN General Assembly, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani used his address to the summit to demand an investigation into the crush.
Protecting the visitors to mosques at the holy cities of Makkah and Medina is a key pillar of legitimacy for the Saudi royal family, and the king has the title of "custodian of the two holy mosques".
Speaking to the country's crown prince Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, top Saudi cleric Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh said he did not hold authorities responsible for the disaster.
"You are not responsible for what happened. You dealt with the beneficial factors that were in your hands and within your ability.”
“As for the things that humans cannot control, you cannot be blamed for them. Fate and destiny are inevitable," Al al-Sheikh, known as the Grand Mufti, said in a televised statement.
Al al-Sheikh also appeared to deflect criticisms of the kingdom from outside as a product of "envy".
"Many are envious of the kingdom for its religion, leadership, economy and the cohesion of its members, and for the great blessings it has experienced, unlike many other countries," he said.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbubur Rahman gave the order of remand when the former student leader was produced in his court on Wednesday.
Manna in a phone conversation with an unidentified person seemed to suggest the need to influence senior generals to take over power and end the current political crisis.
In another conversation with BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, now in the US, he said ' a few deaths' during clashes in the Dhaka university could destabilise the government.
The two leaked audio clips of Manna -- one of his conversation with BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and the other with an unidentified person -- were carried by bdnews24.com on Sunday.
That led to an intense political debate.
He was picked up by the Rapid Action Battalion from a house in Banani early on Tuesday and later handed over to the Gulshan police.
He was then sent to the Detective Branch headquarters and was produced in court on Wednesday.
A case was filed against Manna with the Gulshan police on Tuesday under Section 131 of Penal Code.
Bangladesh Penal Code's Section 131 says, “Whoever abets the committing of mutiny by an officer, soldier...or attempts to seduce any such officer, soldier, sailor or airman from his allegiance or his duty, shall be punished with [imprisonment] for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.”