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At least 49 dead in 2nd day of Bangladesh cargo depot fire
A massive fire at a container depot near a port city in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least 49 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others, officials and local media reported Sunday, as efforts to extinguish the blaze continued into a second night.
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The family with no fingerprints
A family in Bangladesh struggles with an extremely rare genetic condition, "immigration delay disease".
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Twins Born Conjoined at the Head Are Separated Successfully
A 30-hour procedure by a medical team lead by 35 Hungarian doctors separates the three-year-old girls at a military hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh’s Tigers Bounce Back After a Poaching Crackdown
This mangrove forest holds one of the world’s largest remaining wild populations of tigers.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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