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Violent clashes ahead of Bangladesh war crimes verdict

DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets at protesters on Monday, as violence erupted across the country ahead of the verdict on a top Islamist for

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Bangladesh, Myanmar relieved as cyclone fizzles

Bangladesh: A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar dissipated quickly, causing some deaths but largely relieving authorities who had told more than 1 million people to leave vulnerable coastal areas

1 million evacuate as Cyclone Mahasen lashes Bangladesh

COX’S BAZAR: Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced

Search ends in Bangladesh; death toll put at 1,127

Bangladesh: Several of the biggest Western retailers embraced a plan that would require them to pay for factory improvements in Bangladesh as the three-week search for victims of the worst

Woman rescued from Bangladesh rubble recovering

Bangladesh: A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building outside of Bangladesh’s capital was panicked, dehydrated and suffering from insomnia as she recovered

Bangladesh garment disaster death toll reaches 705

Bangladesh: Hundreds of garment factory workers who survived a building collapse in Bangladesh protested for compensation, as the death toll from the country’s worst-ever industrial disaster passed 700. The police

28 dead as Bangladesh Islamists clash with police

DHAKA: At least 28 people have been killed in pitched battles between Bangladeshi police and thousands of hardline Islamists in the capital Dhaka. In some of the fiercest violence to

Bittersweet end for missing in Bangladesh collapse

Bangladesh: As Farida knelt beside the linen-wrapped body and looked at the dress that she herself had purchased, her sobs of sorrow turned to tears of painful relief. She called

Local mayor suspended as Bangladesh disaster toll climbs to 430

DHAKA, BANGLADESH: The mayor of the Bangladesh municipality where a factory building collapse d killing more than 400 people was suspended from office on Thursday, a government minister said, as

Bangladesh marks May Day with demands for safety

SAVAR, Bangladesh: Thousands of workers paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safety at work and the death penalty for the owner of a garment factory building that collapsed last week in the country’s worst