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At least 43 people are killed in a building fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
2024-02-29

The largest general strike in more than 50 years occurs in Northern Ireland.
2024-01-18

At least 57 people are dead after severe flooding in eastern India and Bangladesh.
2022-05-21

Bangladesh issues new lockdown rules that order the closure of all government, semi-government, autonomous, and private offices for one week beginning April 14, as well as suspension of all public transport. However, the government will allow factories to remain open.
2021-04-12

An official at Bangladesh's health directorate says at least 50 people have died of cold-related illnesses in December. A cold wave sweeps through the country, with a lowest recorded temperature of 4.5 °C.
2019-12-29

People in 150 places across France take to the streets peacefully in a general strike to protest President Macron's economic reforms. Railways, airways, schools and power generation are affected.
2018-03-22

Win Myat Aye, Myanmar's minister of social welfare, relief and resettlement, announced that his country would begin repatriating Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh beginning on January 23, 2018. Burmese officials also promised that a newly built camp for repatriated refugees would also be finished by that date.
2018-01-15

A garment factory boiler explosion in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills 10 people and injures dozens.
2017-07-4

A court in the Philippines orders the central bank to return US$15 million back to Bangladesh.
2016-09-19

The Bangladeshi Opposition calls a general strike over restoration of a caretaker administration with reports of explosions and clashes between police and protesters in the capital Dhaka.
2012-12-13