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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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When Masuma Akhtar came to the garment factory where she works on the outskirts of Dhaka on 31 October, she was expecting a normal shift. Instead, she was met brute violence. The minute I strolled through the factory gates, a group of armed guys began beating me with wood sticks, states Akhtar. I fell down on to the ground. Even then they w.
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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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In Bangladesh, there disappears room left in the prisons. In the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 opposition leaders, fans and activists have actually been apprehended after protests broke out versus the judgment federal government, led by the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina.Thousands of other political detainees have actually currently been inside these cells for months, ...
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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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A Bangladeshi woman was shot dead on Wednesday after police in Dhaka opened fire during a protest held by garment workers demanding higher wages.

Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the factory closed suddenly as a large group of protesters gathered nearby.

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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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A Bangladeshi female was shot dead on Wednesday after cops in Dhaka opened fire throughout a demonstration held by garment employees demanding a wage increase. Anjuara Khatun, a 26-year-old machine operator at Islam Garments in Gazipur, was on her way home after the factory closed suddenly as a big group of protesters collected nearby.Her hubby told ...
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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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Garment workers making clothes in Bangladesh for UK high-street brands state they are dealing with starvation and are having to steal and scavenge food from fields and bins to feed their children, as demonstrations continue over a new base pay for the garment workforce of 4 million people.Over the previous week, 10s of countless employees have actually taken to the ...
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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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Tributes have gathered from around for world for the distinguished Bangladeshi researcher Prof Saleemul Huq, who died on 28 October.Huq, 71, was a well-known academic, a relentless environment activist and the director of the International Centre for Climate Change - & Development (ICCCAD), a research study and capacity-building organisation in Bangladesh.Shaha ...
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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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Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and sent him to prison after a nationwide strike led to violent clashes with security forces.

Media reports said at least three civilians died in the violence, which included an arson attack in the nation’s capital, Dhaka, on Sunday. Dozens of o...

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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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The year 2024 will be a vital one. The future of Gaza and the West Bank might hinge in part on whether Donald Trump goes back to the White House-- as might the result of the war in Ukraine. China will be secured a race against time as its population ages. And the natural world will reach a new series of tipping points. But there are some factors f.
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Set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Nuhash Humayun's Moshari ended up being the first Bangladeshi film to receive the Oscars in 2015. The spine-tingling thriller follows two siblings and their defend survival, however for the film's co-producer, Bushra Afreen, the horror fiction felt better to reality. There was so much that resonated with my own e.
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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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Every night, Ruby Rafiq * lies awake on the cold, tough flooring of her little room, worrying how her household will make it through the winter season. Huddled next to her under a big patchwork blanket contributed by a charity is her 13-year-old daughter, Maya.The mom of two awaits her children to drop off to sleep before silently creeping out of the home. Wrapped in a.
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A sweet, butter-filled bread roll, neatly wrapped in plastic, has actually ended up being the snack rickshaw rider Jewel Ahmed reaches for when he requires to eat while stuck in traffic in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.Bun roti, as the rolls are understood, are cost 10 Bangladesh taka (7p) at the same stalls where the city's rickshaw riders buy heavily sweetened tea to w.
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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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About 400 Rohingya refugees have been adrift in two boats on the Andaman Sea for about two weeks, according to the United Nations, which called on regional governments to help rescue them.

The number of Rohingya Muslims fleeing by boats in a seasonal exodus – usually from squalid, overcrowded refugee camps in Bangladesh – has been rising since last...

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Two years ago, Thaslima Begum and Rosie Swash began investigating what happened to babies given up for adoption in Bangladesh in the 1970s. A new law allowed families around the world to adopt Bangladeshi children for the first time. But as Thaslima and Rosie dug deeper, they found a system ripe for exploitation.

In this episode, Thaslima finally...

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