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A Bangladeshi rescue worker walks through rubble and debris at a garment factory in Gazipur July 3, 2017, after an explosion at the factory on the outskirts of Dhaka. (AFP)

Bangladesh Garment Factory Explosion Leaves 10 Dead

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 4, 2017 | World

In the latest in a series of incidents that highlight the safety conditions at Bangladesh workplaces, ten workers were killed in a boiler explosion at a garment factory, union leaders said Tuesday. The boiler explosion on Monday night occurred at a plant of Multifabs...

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Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated to shelters to escape Cyclone Mora in Bangladesh. (AFP)

At Least 400,00 Flee as Bangladesh Cyclone Strikes Myanmar’s Rohingya Camps

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 30, 2017 | World

Some 350,000 Muslim Rohingya have been evacuated as a powerful cyclone struck their refugee camps in Bangladesh. Authorities in Chittagong district moved at least 350,000 Bangladeshis out of harm’s way. Cyclone Mora struck the island of Saint Martin and Teknaf...

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Security personnel bring Shaikh Mohammad Abul Kashem, a spiritual leader of “Neo JMB”, in front of media after his March 2 arrest by Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in Dhaka, Bangladesh, March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain

Bangladesh Arrests Militant who Urged Killing of Foreigners

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 4, 2017 | World

Dhaka- Bangladeshi police have arrested the head of a militant group accused of inspiring followers to kill foreigners, the chief of the counter-terrorism unit said on Friday. Shaikh Mohammad Abul Kashem, who founded an offshoot of the larger Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen...

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Rohingya women and men gather at the Thel-Chaung displacement camp in Sittwe on November 8, 2015. Myat Thu / AFP

Thousands of Rohingya Flee to Bangladesh over Fear for their Lives

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 1, 2016 | Features

Dhaka- The scale of human suffering of the Muslim Rohingya minority in Myanmar has been rising, as desperate people like Mohammad Ayaz told how troops attacked his village and killed his pregnant wife. Cradling his two-year-old son, he said troops killed at least 300...

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Shariful Islam Shihab (C) in Dhaka on May 15, 2016 after his arrest in connection with the murder of two gay rights activists. AFP

Bangladesh Fast-Tracks Trials of Islamist Extremists

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 18, 2016 | World

Dhaka- Bangladesh said Monday it is fast-tracking trials of Islamist extremists, hours after a senior leader of a militant group was hanged for a 2005 blast that killed two judges. Asadul Islam, 42, also known as Arif, was a senior leader of the banned group Jamayetul...