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CNN
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Survivors of a storm that killed more than 3,000 people in the impoverished nation of Bangladesh grieved and buried their loved ones Monday as they waited for aid to arrive. The number of dead killed from Cyclone Sidr -- now at 3,114 -- is expected to ris..
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CNN
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Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who has vowed to return home to face criminal charges against her, has a ticket to fly back but was told by her airline that she cannot board, she said on Thursday.
Hasina arrived in London from Washingto..
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BBC News
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The passenger train service between Calcutta in India and the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, has resumed after an interval of more than 40 years.
Trains travelled in both directions on Monday - the first service since the 1965 war between India and Paki..
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BBC News
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A plague of rats has destroyed the crops of tens of thousands of people living in Bangladesh's remote Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Aid workers have warned that the destruction of crop has left the people in a "near-famine situation".
The rat population h..
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CNN
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Five days after Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh, an overwhelming stench filled the air Tuesday as rotting bodies and animal carcasses floated in pools of stagnant water around the coastal city of Patharghata. Villagers complained about lack of government h..
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MSNBC
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Survivors of a powerful cyclone that devastated Bangladesh and killed more than 2,400 people grieved and buried their loved ones Monday as they waited for aid to arrive.
In Galachipa, a fishing village along the coast in Patuakhali district, Dhalan Mri..
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BBC News
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At least 242 people have been reported dead after a powerful cyclone battered southern Bangladesh, levelling villages and uprooting trees.
Officials have warned that the death toll could rise and that the extent of the damage is still unclear.
Hundr..
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MSNBC
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Prone to floods
Bangladesh, a low-lying delta nation, is prone to seasonal cyclones and floods that cause huge losses of life and property. The coastal area borders eastern India and is famous for the mangrove forests of the Sundarbans, a world heritag..
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BBC News
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Tens of thousands of people have left coastal districts of Bangladesh as a severe cyclone heads in across the Bay of Bengal, officials say.
Operations have been suspended at the main ports of Mongla and Chittagong, and people are being moved away from..
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BBC News
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At least 240 people are now known to have died in floods affecting India, Bangladesh and Nepal, where millions of people face continuing misery.
Hundreds of thousands of people in the Indian state of Bihar are short of food and isolated while rescue se..
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BBC News
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Millions of people have been displaced by severe flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
More than 12 million are displaced or marooned in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, officials say.
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BBC News
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A train carrying Indian government officials has crossed the border and arrived in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.
The 500km (310 mile) journey marked the resumption of a direct passenger rail service between the two countries.
The link was suspended f..
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FOX News
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A torrent of mudslides, flooding and lightning washed away a shantytown crowded with migrant workers in southeastern Bangladesh, killing 105 people and leaving scores unaccounted for, officials and witnesses said.
The worst-hit area was the hilly port..
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BBC News
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More than 50 people have been killed in mudslides following heavy rains in the port town of Chittagong in Bangladesh, officials say.
Many others are missing after a hill partially collapsed onto a shanty town.
Scores of injured have been taken to ho..
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CNN
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At least 62 people were killed and many others were injured Monday in mudslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in a hilly port city in southeastern Bangladesh, rescue officials and witnesses said.
The worst-hit area was a congested shantytown near a..
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Al Jazeera
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CrackdownThe special courts were set up by the military-backed government last month to try dozens of high-profile political figures charged with corruption.
Chowdhury was ordered to account for his wealth by the anti corruption commission after the..
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CNN
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Authorities have barred ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from returning to Bangladesh, newspapers said, amid reports the government wants her and her archrival to go into exile to reduce political unrest.
The military-backed government ordered authoriti..
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BBC News
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Security forces in Bangladesh have released the younger son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, official sources have told the BBC.
Arafat Rahman was taken from Khaleda Zia's home in Dhaka, by army forces in a pre-dawn raid on Monday.
His release..
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BBC News
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Police in Bangladesh have filed murder charges against former Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina.
They have accused her supporters of killing four supporters of a rival political party during street violence in Dhaka last October.
It is not clear what ro..
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The Hindu
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Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed on Sunday named himself head of a non-party caretaker government to conduct the next general election amid widespread criticism of holding a political brief for the outgoing Government led by Begum Khaleda Zia...
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