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6/5/2022 2:29:09 PM
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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2/12/2022 2:18:22 PM
From Russia to North Korea to Zimbabwe, the impact of diplomatic sanctions has long been questioned. But Bangladeshi activists have no doubts: extrajudicial killings have suddenly stopped since punitive US measures were imposed two months ago, they say.
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12/24/2021 1:45:22 PM
A massive fire swept through a crowded river ferry in Bangladesh early Friday, leaving at least 39 people dead and 72 injured, officials said. Many passengers leapt from the vessel into cold waters to escape the blaze.
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Life & Style
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12/8/2021 10:31:44 PM
In 2021, the prime minister of India announced that India-Bangladesh Friendship Day would fall on 6 December, which also marks the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s Independence. India and Bangladesh have agreed to commemorate these events in 18 select countries, among whom is Egypt.
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11/1/2021 9:50:59 AM
Bangladesh police have arrested 172 Rohingya in recent weeks after a crackdown sparked by the brutal murder of a prominent community leader, the force said Monday.
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10/29/2021 2:48:02 PM
Tensions were high in parts of India's northeastern Tripura state on Friday after a string of attacks against minority Muslims, seen as retaliation for the violence against Hindus in neighboring Bangladesh earlier this month.
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10/16/2021 12:09:46 PM
Two Hindu men have been killed in fresh religious violence in Bangladesh, police officials said Saturday, taking the death toll to six from recent unrest in the Muslim-majority country.
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Egypt
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Tourism
9/3/2021 6:13:48 PM
The announcement comes two weeks after the Kuwaiti Cabinet decided to resume commercial flights from Kuwait to Egypt, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
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8/15/2021 1:00:00 PM
The refugees were apparently trying to flee a remote Bangladeshi island
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8/14/2021 7:37:29 PM
Nearly 20,000 Rohingya have been relocated to Bhashan Char island, which takes the full force of cyclones that roar across the Bay of Bengal each year
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8/10/2021 9:10:00 AM
Health officials say 2,600 Covid-19 cases and 29 deaths have been recorded in the camps housing some 850,000 Rohingya but many experts say this is likely a gross underestimate
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7/22/2021 4:16:38 PM
The migrants, who included 65 Moroccans, 62 Bangladeshis and 15 Egyptians, and who were aged between 15 and 48, set off from Libyan coast overnight Friday to Saturday, Tunisian defence ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri said
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7/11/2021 11:32:19 AM
A bus carrying Afghan, Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants crashed in eastern Turkey early on Sunday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 26 others, local authorities said
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7/10/2021 4:41:31 PM
Police in Bangladesh arrested eight people Saturday on murder charges in connection with a factory fire that killed at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door, a senior police official said
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7/9/2021 3:03:09 PM
Police initially gave a toll of three dead, but then discovered piles of bodies on Friday afternoon after the fire was extinguished
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7/8/2021 3:34:00 PM
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7/5/2021 3:04:57 PM
Bangladesh on Monday extended a strict nationwide lockdown, confining people to their homes for another week as coronavirus cases and deaths both hit new records
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World
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6/21/2021 6:33:14 PM
Biden announced that the US was purchasing 500 million doses from Pfizer to donate globally over the coming year, with the first deliveries expected in August
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International
6/7/2021 6:29:27 PM
Greece on Monday designated neighboring Turkey as a safe country in which to seek international protection for the majority of asylum-seekers departing its shores for Greece
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5/26/2021 10:49:09 AM
Authorities said more than a million people had been moved out of the storm's path, while television broadcast images of rough seas, strong winds and rains lashing the state of Odisha, with shops and homes boarded up
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