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Footage from around the world has captured celebrations of Eid al-Fitr as Muslims marked the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with the three-day festival. For many, however, the six-month war in Gaza has cast a shadow on the Islamic holiday...

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At least 45 people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upmarket neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen said 45 people had died, after visiting the Dhaka medical college hospital and an adjoining burns hospital.

Sen said another 22...

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Climate breakdown will put tens of millions of people in Bangladesh at heightened risk of cancer from contaminated well water, according to research.

Sea level rises, unpredictable flooding and extreme weather caused by the climate heating up will accelerate the release of dangerous levels of arsenic into the country’s drinking water, say s...

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Owning a pair of reading glasses might help people increase their earnings by a third, according to new research.

The study, conducted in Bangladesh, is the first to examine the impact of having a decent pair of spectacles, and researchers found monthly median earnings among one group of people increased from $35.30 to $47.10 within eight months, a...

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The tumours that kept growing in her chest were eliminated 3 times before Noor Saimun, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, was tested for cancer. By the time it was diagnosed, the cancer had actually spread from her breast throughout her body.Saimun now invests her days paralyzed by pain, pushing the flooring of her bamboo shelter. Around her, many of her ...
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For a moment, the workers disappear in the clouds of dust that billow across the white limestone plains as the old circular saws they handle cut through rock in a deafening noise.

Every day thousands of men and boys, some as young as 12, travel in the back of pickup trucks to the limestones quarries of Al-Minya, about 300km (186 miles) south of...

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His own sign language of sweeping, dramatised gestures is rarely completely comprehended by those outdoors Asom Khan's closest friends and family however the 15-year-old has the ability to speak through his art and photography.From his shelter in the Rohingya refugee camps of south-east Bangladesh, Khan takes pictures to share the stories of his community-- of his e.
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As far back as she can remember, Shahanaz Ali has actually been ranging from cyclones. Moving constantly from one place to another is tiring, says Ali. Nowhere seems like home. Her family first fled from their home in 1970, when Bangladesh was ravaged by Cyclone Bhola-- among the most dangerous cyclones in history.Up to 500,000 individuals passed away, ...
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Sheikh Hasina Wazed has actually brought the very best of times and the worst of times to Bangladesh. In her 15 years of consecutive guideline as prime minister, extreme poverty rates have halved and per-capita GDP has grown by more than 300%. This impressive efficiency has actually been weakened by the introduction of a one‑party state, a process accelerated by anti ...
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In the small, crowded ward of the Upazila Health Complex in Dacope, new and expecting mothers lie exhausted beneath fans that spin noisily above their heads. There are no dividers in the maternity room shared by more than 20 women, so visiting husbands are ushered out by nurses when someone needs attending to.

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The envelope consisting of two partially burned pages of the Qur'an came as a shock. Up until then, Muslim homeowners in the Adriatic port town of Monfalcone had lived relatively peacefully for more than 20 years.Addressed to the Darus Salaam Muslim cultural association on Via Duca d'Aosta, the envelope was gotten right after Monfalcone's far-right might ...
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Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has actually won office for a 5th term, in an election that was eclipsed by a ruthless crackdown on the opposition and low citizen turnout.The election commission revealed in the early hours of Monday that Hasina's judgment Awami League had actually won a 4th consecutive term, winning practically 75% of the seats. It w.
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The door of Rehana Khan's sixth-floor flat is as far as she ventures during the day. On the majority of days, she hardly leaves her bed. The city exterior is too disorderly and overwhelming for her.Khan, 57, relocated to Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, a year ago, after her husband passed away. She deals with her only child and his partner, who were fretted about her being alone i.
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There have been more than 1,000 huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane from landfill waste dumps since 2019, the Guardian can reveal.

Analysis of global satellite data from around the world shows the populous nations of south Asia are a hotspot for these super-emitter events, as well as Argentina and Spain, developed countries where proper...

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Ballot booths have actually been set on fire in Bangladesh on the eve of general elections.On Friday 4 individuals, including two children, passed away in an obvious arson attack on a train in Bangladesh. Authorities said they had actually jailed seven individuals in connection with the incident.The fire on the traveler train, which raced through four coaches, was targeted at ...
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Dozens of Rohingya refugees have actually been saved from the Indian Ocean off the coast of Indonesia after spending the night balanced on the hull of their overturned boat.Seventy-five individuals were pulled from the stricken vessel, which was identified on Thursday by an Indonesian search and rescue ship.Survivors stated the boat had actually capsized on Wednesday. Male, ...
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A revolution is stirring in Africa – and it’s being driven by women. Sick of the stigma that surrounds menopause and frustrated by the lack of information, and the disengagement from the medical profession, they are speaking up, setting up support groups, introducing workplace training, and even raising the issue in parliament.

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Bangladesh votes on Sunday in an election guaranteed to offer prime minister sheikh Hasina her 5th term in office, after a boycott by opposition parties whose ranks have actually been annihilated by mass arrests.Hasina has presided over extraordinary economic development in a nation as soon as beset by grinding poverty, however her federal government has actually been accused of rampant ...
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Among the joyful household reunions at the arrivals gate at Dhaka's worldwide airport, one group of tourists sticks out. These men appear gaunt and dazed, most of them carrying nothing but a thin blanket they picked up on the aircraft. They use tracksuits and blue rubber shoes or shoes without laces. Some stroll barefoot.All have simply been ...
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From a highway in Tongi, on the borders of Dhaka in Bangladesh, Azim Khan Ronnie surveyed his fellow worshippers. Ronnie, a Bangladeshi who now lives in France, had actually taken a trip back to his home nation to participate in Bishwa Ijtema. The annual conference of countless Muslims from around the world is the 2nd biggest Islamic congregation after the hajj, ...
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At least 4 people have died in an obvious arson attack on a train in Bangladesh, contributing to stress before parliamentary elections on Sunday. The fire on Friday raced through four coaches in the guest train in what one authorities called an attack targeted at scaring people before the vote, though authorities did not immediately name any ...
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An ambulance is weaving through the chaos of the cargo depot at Dhaka’s international airport, navigating a careful route through trolleys stacked high with boxes, men hauling rolls of cloth and trucks reversing into loading bays. It stops and, shortly afterwards, from between the towering piles of goods, a coffin is wheeled out. Then another. And...

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It was not long into a research trip to Bangladesh, on behalf of an organisation seeking to reunite children adopted abroad with their birth relatives, when Kana Verheul found herself huddled in a cafe toilet, comparing birthmarks with a stranger.

That trip seven years ago was one of many that Verheul, 49, had taken to the country of her birth...

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An opposition boycott looks set to usher prime minister Sheikh Hasina to a fourth straight term in the Bangladesh election this weekend.

The election has been described as a “sham” designed to cement Hasina’s rule by exiled opposition leader Tarique Rahman.

Rahman’s party staged a months-long protest campaign in 2023 demanding the prime minister’s r...

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It was August 2017 when the world really started to take note of Myanmar’s Rohingya people. Descendants of Arab Muslims who speak a different language to most other people in Myanmar, the Rohingya had up to that point lived mainly in the northern Rakhine state, coexisting uneasily alongside the majority Buddhist population.

But the Rohingya were...

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Police in Bangladesh have actually released an investigation into historical claims that kids were adopted abroad without their moms and dads' consent, after a Guardian examination into adoptions to the Netherlands in the 1970s. Bangladesh unique branch in Dhaka confirmed it had opened an investigation into the scenarios surrounding the adoption ...
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After 23 hours on his first global flight, it was only after stepping off the aircraft in the United States that Nurul Haque finally felt the relief of getting away the refugee camps of Bangladesh, where he was born.Haque was amongst the very first Rohingya refugees allowed to leave Bangladesh in more than a years. The 62 people who have flown to the US ...
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Even as dehydration was getting to their travelers, the traffickers utilizing boats to bring hundreds of Rohingya far from refugee camps in Bangladesh thrust phones into their hands and demanded they ask their relatives for money.It was only after 28-year-old Rehana Begum's loved ones had actually paid almost ₤ 2,000 to the traffickers that they agreed to co.
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In a small, dimly lit control room at the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) in Dhaka, data on Bangladesh’s dengue outbreak flashes across multiple computer screens. Government analysts here have been busy collecting and monitoring the impact of the disease across the country since cases were first reported last April.

In 2023, the total...

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The Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus has actually been founded guilty of breaking Bangladesh's labour laws in a trial decried by his advocates as politically motivated.The 83-year-old, credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his microfinance bank, Grameen, has made the enmity of Sheikh Hasina, the long time prime minister, who has implicated him ...
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