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CLEAN : Huge Eid exodus from Dhaka as Bangladesh lifts virus lockdown
Hundreds of thousands of people leave the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka ahead of Eid al-Adha, the country's second-biggest religious festival, as authorities lift a strict virus lockdown despite soaring coronavirus infections (Footage by...
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CLEAN : Crowds at cattle markets in Dhaka ahead of Eid
Thousands of people have gathered in Bangladesh capital's main cattle market ahead of Eid al-Adha, despite rising coronavirus cases (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : PHOTOS: Bangladesh port depot fire kills dozens, injures 300
At least 38 people died and hundreds were injured after a fire that sparked a huge chemical explosion and was still blazing on Sunday at a shipping container depot in Bangladesh, officials said (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Chittagong residents search for belongings amid debris after cyclone hits Bangladesh
After Cyclone Sitrang slammed into Bangladesh, residents in Chittagong search for their belongings amid the debris of their collapsed huts (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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US diplomat comments on collapse of garment factory
1. Wide of US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Wendy R. Sherman and other officials taking their seats at news conference
2. Sherman walking to podium
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Wendy R. Sherman, US Under Secretary for Political...
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CLEAN : Bangladesh PM denounces 'tragedy' of rich nations on climate
A country of fertile, densely populated deltas, low-lying Bangladesh is among the most vulnerable nations in the world to climate change (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : Inundaciones dejaron decenas de muertos en Bangladés e India
Las inundaciones en el noreste de Bangladés, las peores en casi dos décadas, empezaron a remitir el domingo, tras dejar decenas de muertos en una semana en el país y en la vecina India, según las autoridades (Footage by AFPTV via Getty...
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How Bangladesh Has Surpassed India and Pakistan
Bangladesh went from the second poorest country in the world to among the richest of South Asia in per capita terms, with one industry in particular driving its success. But now the nation is at a crossroads.
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CLEAN : 'Woven air': Bangladesh revives elite forgotten fabric
With wooden spinning wheels and hand-drawn looms, Bangladesh is painstakingly resurrecting a fabric once worn by Marie Antoinette and Jane Austen but long thought forever lost to history (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Claims Sunderbans islands at risk from climate change
Sunderbans Islands
1. Various of Sunderbans Islands and mangrove forests on the banks as seen from a boat
2. Monkey sitting on a tree branch with its cub
3. Wide of a royal Bengal tiger swimming, reaching the bank then running into the...
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Death toll continues to rise after Bangladesh garment factory collapse
1. Mid of rescue workers carrying injured man on stretcher away from collapsed building site
2. Close up of woman crying
3. Mid of rescue workers carrying injured woman on stretcher
4. Wide of crowds in foreground, collapsed building in...
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Bangladesh, India foreign ministers meet in Dhaka
India said on Sunday that the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh will only be solved when the Rohingya people can return home to Myanmar.
India's Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, made the comments during a...
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Goldman Has Raised European Gas Price Forecast
Samantha Dart, head of natural gas research at Goldman Sachs, discusses the outlook for prices and supply. European natural gas prices rose after rallying 43% last week as Russia's steep supply cuts put governments on high alert amid a...
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Fire in garment factory in Bangladesh breaks out, killing at least 10
Ten people were killed on Tuesday night in a garment factory blaze outside Bangladesh's capital, according to officials.
The cause of the fire at the Aswad garment factory in Gazipur outside Dhaka was not immediately known, but the...
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Protesters form human chain over working conditions in clothing industry
1. Wide of students, teachers and workers protesting outside the office of the Bangladesh garments manufacturing association
2. Mid of protesters
3. Mid of protesters chanting slogans
4. Wide of protesters forming human-chain, holding...
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Leaders call for coordinated effort to fight econ crisis, Singh
1. Wide of head of states of BIMSTEC countries
2. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa (left) and Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein (right)
3. (From left) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bhutanese Prime Minister Jigmi Thinley,...
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An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday, killing at least 87 people and trapping many more under a jumbled mess of concrete.
HEADLINE: Death toll rises in Bangladesh factory collapse
CAPTION: An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital on Wednesday, killing dozens of people and trapping many more under a...
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Andrea Jung on the Importance of Saving $5 a Week
Dec.13 -- Grameen America President & CEO Andrea Jung, who led Avon Products as ceo from 1999 to 2012, talks about how the organization helps keep women above the poverty line and on a road to success. She sat down with Bloomberg's David...
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Garment workers march, demand better pay and safety standards
Hundreds of garment factory workers took part in a mass rally in Dhaka on Thursday to demand higher wages as well as safer and better conditions at work.
More than 1100 people died in April last year when the illegally constructed Rana...
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Bangladesh - Soldiers try to prevent flood damage
Thousands of soldiers and civilians were labouring on Thursday (10/09) to protect flood-strained embankments along the four major flood-swollen rivers around the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, much of which was already underwater. Some 70-75...
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CLEAN : Bangladeshs illegal kidney trade booms despite health risks
CLEAN : Bangladeshs illegal kidney trade booms despite health risks
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CLEAN: Rohingya refugees drenched by heavy rain in Bangladesh camp
Rohingya shelter from the rain under plastic sheets and in makeshift homes in Cox's Bazar where tens of thousands of them have camped for weeks after fleeing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state
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Groups of workers clash in dispute over closure of garment factories
1. Various of protesters outside Al-Muslim Group garment factory, calling on the owners to reopen the factory
2. Protesters with bamboo sticks chanting, calling on the owners to reopen their factory
3. Groups of protesters with...
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ILO official appeals for more support for factory collapse victims, prayers
An official from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on Thursday called on all stake holders involved in the Rana Plaza factory disaster in Dhaka last year to take responsibility and "focus on the essential".
Gilbert Houngbo, the...