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The country's supreme court scaled backquotas on civil service jobs, which previously allocated 30% to veterans and relatives of those who fought in the 1971 Bangladesh war of independence, after widespread student-led protests and violent clashes in which more than 100 people have been killed...

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Metropolitan police says at least 7 officers now under investigation over election timing bets

The number of Metropolitan police officers under investigation over bets on the timing of the general election has risen to at least seven, the force has said.

On Tuesday the Met said six officers were being investigated – of whom one was the close p...

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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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Bangladesh’s top court has scaled backthe quotas on government jobs that led to widespread student-led protests and violent clashes that killed more than 100 people.

On Sunday afternoon the supreme court overturned a ruling that had reintroduced quotas for all civil service jobs, meaning that 30% were reserved for veterans and relatives of those...

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Musicians, authors, producers and festival managers have hit out at “humiliating” and costly visa-rejection rates for African and Asian artists visiting Britain and European Union countries, saying it is having a chilling impact on cultural diversity.

Analysis shows the UK last year raised £44m in fees for visa applications that were then rejected,...

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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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Police in Bangladesh have been granted “shoot-on-sight” orders and a nationwide curfew has been imposed as student-led protests continue to roil the country, leaving more than 100 people dead.

The curfew, imposed at midnight on Friday, was expected to last until Sunday morning as police tried to bring the swiftly deteriorating security situation...

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The Nobel peace laureate and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus has said that years of fighting what he calls “dirty” politically motivated attacks on his work to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh have made life “totally miserable”.

Yunus told the Guardian he had come under 20 years of pressure from the Bangladeshi government for his work, which is...

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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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The Bangladeshi government has declared a national curfew and announced plans to deploy the army to tackle the country’s worst unrest in a decade, after student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates.

“The government has decided to impose a curfew and deploy the military in aid of the civilian authorities,” a government spo...

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Rivers, lakes and tap water in areas of Bangladesh that host garment factories are swarming with dangerous levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, some with links to serious health issues, according to new research.

In the first study of its kind conducted in Bangladesh, a global fashion hub supplying international brands, per- and polyfluoroalkyl...

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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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Bangladeshi trainees have actually set fire to the state broadcaster's constructing a day after the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, appeared on the network looking for to soothe escalating clashes that had killed at least 39 people.Hundreds of protesters demanding reform of civil service working with guidelines clashed with riot authorities who had shot at them with rubber bullets ...
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During the early hours of Saturday morning, an area of low pressure over the east-central Bay of Bengal intensified, and has been named Cyclone Remal.

Cyclone Remal made landfall between Sagar Island in West Bengal, India, and Bangladesh’s Khepupara region late on Sunday as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued warnings for heavy rain, s...

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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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At least two people passed away and thousands were hurt after authorities fired teargas into crowds of objecting trainees, and paramilitary forces were released throughout the country.Protests first broke out on university schools throughout Bangladesh a fortnight ago as 10s of countless students demanded an end to unreasonable and prejudiced quotas for ...
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Shadows dance throughout large, concrete chambers while the noise of dripping water echoes in the range. A rusty metal staircase leads up to an empty water tower ignoring Bangladesh's mighty Rupsha River. This water treatment plant was once a beacon of wish for the community; today the website lies abandoned, the only sign of life the everyday a.
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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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Amin Mandol was collecting peanuts from a char-- a bank of sand and silt-- in the Padma, the lower part of the Ganges, when he heard the scream. While bring up some roots, one of his workers had actually come across a snake coiled among the plants. Other workers rushed over and beat the Russell's viper to death.Mandol still had several hectares of ...
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Billie Eilish, dogs and lift-off: photos of the day & Friday
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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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The death toll from floods in Bangladesh today has actually increased to 8, leaving more than 2 million affected after heavy rains caused major rivers to break their banks, officials have confirmed.The south Asian nation of 170 million people, crisscrossed by numerous rivers, has actually experienced more regular floods in recent decades.The environment ...
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Severe heat has gripped much of south and south-east Asia over recent weeks, killing dozens of people, forcing countless students to miss school and damaging crops.Both the Philippines and Bangladesh shut schools due to the excruciating heat last month, while governments across the area have provided health cautions. In Thailand, at least 30 ...
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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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Sunak hints he might not quit as Tory leader immediately if he loses general election

Rishi Sunak has hinted that he might not quit as Tory leader immediately if he loses the election on Thursday.

In an interview with the BBC’s Chris Mason, he did not give a direct answer when asked if he would stay on if he lost. But he said he would always put...

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Nobody saw exactly what occurred in the minutes leading up to Aziz Murad's death. But when his friends returned to the boat where they had actually left him, they discovered just his severed hand in the fishing net he was untying. We were only opted for about five minutes, states Abu Sufyan, who was first to reach the boat. When we got back, he was gone and there ...
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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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Sunak informs of hurt and anger he felt about his daughters needing to hear Reform UK's racist slur about himRishi Sunak has actually discussed the hurt and anger he felt when he heard a Reform UK activist using a racial slur about him.In a broadcast interview, he stated he was particularly upset about his children having to hear what was said. And he made ...
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Countless people throughout South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperature levels, with uncommonly hot weather forcing schools to close and threatening public health.Thousands of schools across the Philippines, consisting of in the capital region Metro Manila, have suspended in-person classes. Half of the country's 82 provinces are experiencing d.
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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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