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UN seeking more than $850m for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh | Rohingya News
Bangladesh hosts more than a million Rohingya people, many of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar. The United…
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Hasina remains the high priestess of Bangladesh’s dynastic democracy | Sheikh Hasina
It has been said that for the past 15 years, Bangladesh’s elections have been so skewed in favour of the ruling Awami League, they are enough to make…
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Sheikh Hasina wins fifth term in Bangladesh amid turnout controversy | Elections News
Sheikh Hasina has secured her fifth term as Bangladeshi prime minister in an election whose outcome was decided the moment…
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Bangladesh polling booths set ablaze, opposition starts election strike | Elections News
Police say unidentified arsonists have set fire to at least five primary schools, including four polling stations. Polling booths were…
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Bangladesh cricket star Shakib Al Hasan’s election run divides hometown | Elections
Dhaka, Bangladesh – In Magura, a sleepy town in southwest Bangladesh, about 168km (104 miles) from capital Dhaka, more than…
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Sanctions threat looms over Bangladesh’s garment sector ahead of elections | Business and Economy News
Dhaka, Bangladesh — Weeks after turbulent wage-hike protests and subsequent factory closures, Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) industry, a key revenue…
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Henry Kissinger, Architect of U.S. Foreign Policy and Owner of Its Disasters, Dies at 100
In 1961, Henry Kissinger visited Harry Truman at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri. The former president gave him…
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Bangladesh battles record dengue deaths as disease pattern changes | Health News
Dhaka, Bangladesh – Every time Mosammat Mayna enters the dengue ward at Mugda Hospital in Bangladesh’s capital, sorrow and fear…
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From a coma to captaining Bangladesh: Jamal Bhuyan’s incredible journey | Football News
As 16-year-old Jamal Bhuyan woke from a coma, in his mind, it was still Friday, November 17, 2006. He had…
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Photos: Hundreds of shops gutted in market fire in Bangladesh | Gallery News
A huge fire has gutted several hundred shops at a market in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. There were no casualties as…
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