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Gunmen take hostages in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka
Gunmen storm a cafe and seize hostages including foreigners in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
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New Earthquake Threat Could Lurk Under 140 Million People
A new GPS study of Bangladesh, India, and Myanmar (Burma) has found startling evidence that the northeastern corner of the Indian subcontinent is actively colliding with Asia, potentially posing a major earthquake risk to one of the world’s most densely populated regions. The years-long analysis is the first to incorporate GPS data from Bangladeshi tracking stations. It is now the latest volley in a long-running academic debate over if and how the geologically complex region is seismically active.
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NSFW Powerful Photos Of Life Inside A Bangladesh Brothel
Photojournalist Sandra Hoyn visited Kandapara and documented life inside the brothel with a series of vivid images. They tell the stories of sex workers who come from poor families (often born inside the brothel) and have no freedom or rights.
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Strengthening Tropical Cyclone to Target Myanmar to India
A strengthening tropical cyclone will unleash heavy rain and strong winds on areas from western Myanmar to northeast India and Bangladesh this week.
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Muslim-majority Bangladesh to drop Islam as state religion for strategic reasons ‘when time comes’
Muslim-majority Bangladesh to drop Islam as the country’s state religion ‘when the time comes’, a report on Monday quoted a senior ruling Awami Leage leader as saying. “Islam has been kept as the state religion for strategic reasons,” the party’s Presidium Member and former minister Abdur Razzaq told the media on Sunday. “I have said it abroad and now I am saying it again that Islam will be dropped (as state religion) from Bangladesh’s Constitution when the time comes,” the former food minister added.
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50,000 Rohingya Muslims flee to Bangladesh from Myanmar
Some 50,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar, the foreign ministry in Dhaka said Thursday, seeking shelter from a bloody crackdown by the army. Bangladesh has stepped up patrols to try to stem the tide of refugees crossing the border since an eruption of unrest in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in early October.
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'Tree man' Abul Bajandar regains use of his hands after groundbreaking surgery
A Bangladeshi father dubbed the “tree man” because of the bark-like warts that once covered his body will soon be able to leave hospital after groundbreaking treatment for one of the world’s rarest diseases. Abul Bajandar has undergone at least 16 operations to remove 5kg (11 pounds) of growths from his hands and feet since his condition came to doctors’ attention a year ago.
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A desperate escape
A closer look at the violent persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, and their exodus to Bangladesh. By Simon Scarr, Weiyi Cai, Wen Foo and Jin Wu.
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Weekly wrap-up: Rare, Intense Storm Kills 16 in Moscow; Cyclone Mora Batters Bangladesh, Myanmar
A deadly storm lashed Moscow this week while a cyclone wreaked havoc in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
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Eight dead in Bangladesh garment factory blast
At least eight people were killed and up to 50 injured after a boiler exploded at a garment factory in Bangladesh on Monday, authorities said. Dozens of labourers were on site at the factory in an industrial district outside the capital Dhaka when a blast tore through the six-storey building, causing its walls and a roof to collapse.
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South Asia Is Also Experiencing The Worst Flooding In Decades And The Photos Are Horrifying
Extreme rainfall has led to devastating floods across Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, killing nearly 1,200 people and displacing millions.
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Could Aung San Suu Kyi face Rohingya genocide charges?
Myanmar says its crackdown was a response to terror attacks, but new evidence raises questions.
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Burma: Scores of Rohingya Villages Bulldozed
New satellite imagery reveals the Burmese government has been bulldozing scores of depopulated Rohingya villages in northern Rakhine State.
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Reuters Wins Pulitzer for Photography of Rohingya Crisis
(Warning: graphic content) An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September,2017
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The Harrowing Floods of Bangladesh, in Photos
A rickshawala, with the help of his daughter, tried to cross a flooded road in Ramu. “I am documenting what’s around me not only as a photojournalist, but also as a victim,” Jashim Salam says. In Chittagong, Bangladesh, where he lives and works, rising water levels during monsoon season have left houses and places of business..
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Bangladesh shuts down mobile internet to tackle teen protests
Bangladesh authorities have shut down mobile internet across swathes of the country, officials and local media said Sunday, as the authorities try to quell massive student protests that have spiraled into violence.
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Suu Kyi defense of jailing of Reuters journalists 'unbelievable':...
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday the jailing of two Reuters journalists had nothing to do with freedom of expression and they can appeal against their seven-year sentences, prompting a sharp rebuke from the United States.
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Bangladesh clothing factories face squeeze if safety push blocked
A group set up to improve safety in Bangladesh's garment industry after the...
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Centre to use new technology to seal India's international borders with Bangladesh: Rajnath Singh
Regretting that despite requesting for years, the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal has not provided land for fencing the state's borders with Bangladesh, Singh said: "We never received the cooperation which we should have got."
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Bangladesh bans fishing to save fish
The government says the 65-day ban during the breeding season will boost dwindling fish stocks.
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