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The Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Nov. 22 that it felt "sorrow" over the execution of two opposition leaders in "brother Bangladesh," calling for national reconciliation.

"Turkey, a country that abolished capital punishment, preserves its belief that execution is not a way to heal past wounds," the ministry said in a press release.

Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders on Nov. 22 for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters.

Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Nov. 18 rejected final appeals from two opposition leaders against death sentences for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, rulings that are likely to spark protests by their supporters.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu said that Romania's Ambassador to Pakistan, who was traveling in a Pakistani army helicopter that crashed on Friday in the north of the country, has returned to Islamabad on Saturday.

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Spokesperson for Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) Raluca Lunculescu said Friday that the Romanian diplomat aboard a helicopter that crashed in Pakistan earlier in the day was slightly injured; although he was rushed to a hospital in the region, he did not need hospitalisation for his injuries and it is now safely in the town of Gilgit.

The Pakistani army said Friday it had arrested the gunmen who tried to kill schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the country's restive northwest in 2012.