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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) � Bangladesh is suffering through its deadliest surge of the pandemic, but you wouldn’t know it looking at its factories, markets and malls. The South Asian nation has done away with most virus restrictions, allowing businesses to reopen to enthusiastic crowds following weeks of strict measures put in place following the arrival

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) � Bangladesh is disputing a Human Rights Watch investigation into disappearances of government critics and others as built on questionable, uncorroborated allegations that security forces were involved. The rights group earlier identified 86 people as still missing after allegedly being targeted by security forces. The group is urging the United Nations to

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) � New York-based Human Rights Watch is urging the United Nations to lead an independent investigation into the alleged disappearances of government critics and others at the hands of security forces in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi and global human rights groups have long raised such allegations, which have been  denied by the government of

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) � More than two dozen Rohingya refugees are feared drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Bangladesh. The U.N.’s refugee agency and local police on Sunday said the fishing boat sank while the refugees were attempting to flee an island. Around 20,000 refugees have been relocated to the island from

DHAKA,Bangladesh (AP) � Bangladesh’s government and aid agencies have started vaccinating Rohingya refugees as a virus surge raises health risks in the camps. The delta variant is driving an infection surge across Bangladesh, and the international Red Crescent said a national positivity rate of around 30% indicates the spread of COVID-19 is much higher. Bangladesh