Two-storey tin hut collapses into lake at Dhaka’s Rampura, death toll 11

Police said 28 people lived in the hut that stood on bamboo poles at the side of an hyancith-filled lake at Hajiparha’s Jheelpar. The incident happened around 3:30pm on Wednesday. “The lower...

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Hopes for retrieval of final MH17 victims as Ukraine frontline moves in renewed fighting

Dutch-led investigators hope to retrieve the remains of the final two victims of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 disaster, after the frontline finally moved away from a battlefield where part of the...

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South Korea marks ferry disaster anniversary

Grief, anger and political tension coloured the first anniversary of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster on Thursday, with complaints of continued official indifference towards the tragedy that claimed...

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