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Fire at Bangladesh juice factory kills 52, many feared trapped
A massive blaze that killed 52 people in a Bangladesh factory and forced workers to leap for their lives from…
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14 militants sentenced to death over plot to kill Bangladesh PM Hasina in 2000
Fourteen militants were sentenced to death in Bangladesh on Tuesday for attempting to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina more than…
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BD sends more Rohingya refugees to remote island despite criticism
DHAKA: More than 1,400 Rohingya Muslim refugees were relocated to a remote island in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday,…
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World Court orders Myanmar to take steps to protect Rohingya
The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Muslim Rohingya population from persecution and…
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Diplomacy
Suu Kyi in court as genocide case set out at ICJ against Myanmar
Mass rapes, the burning alive of Muslim Rohingya families in their homes and the killing with knives of dozens of…
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Environment
Oil spill threatens rare dolphin’s breeding zone in Bangladesh
An oil spill on a river in southeast Bangladesh has threatened the breeding ground of the critically endangered Ganges dolphin,…
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South Asia
Bangladesh court orders ‘virgin’ removed from marriage certificates
The word “virgin” must be removed from Muslim marriage certificates in Bangladesh, the country’s top court has said, a landmark…
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South Asia
200,000 Rohingya rally to mark ‘Genocide Day’ in Bangladesh camps
Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh refugee camp to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by…
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Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh say they don’t want to return home
Few Muslim Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have responded to plans for their repatriation to Myanmar, and all who did said…
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Bangladesh to start repatriation of Rohingya next week
Myanmar government spokesman Zaw Htay, speaking in his country’s capital, Naypyitaw, said the parties concerned had agreed that the process…
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