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Battle for India's new citizenship law moves to top court
India's top court is hearing dozens of petitions seeking the revocation of amendments to the citizenship law following protests and a security...23m ago![Maulana Nisar Ahmed Husaini Naqashbandi, one of the petitioners sits on the lawns of India’s Supreme Court as it begins hearing dozens of petitions that seek revocation of a new citizenship law amendment in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020.]()
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S. Korean military decides to discharge transgender soldier
South Korea’s military says it has decided to discharge a soldier who recently undertook gender reassignment surgery35m ago![FILE- In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, South Korean Army soldiers patrol during the demonstration of search operation at a training field near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) in Cheorwon, South Korea. In the first such case in South Korea, military of]()
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Davos: Hopes for digital tax breakthrough between France, US
Hopes are rising that a breakthrough in discussions on how to tax digital companies will emerge at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday42m ago![The World Economic Forum logo is seen in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum will take place in Davos from Jan. 21 until Jan. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)]()
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Thai police arrest suspect in robbery that killed toddler
Police in Thailand have arrested a man on suspicion of ruthlessly killing three people, including a toddler, during a gold shop robbery that shocked...48m ago![FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 9, 2020, file image made from a security camera video and provided by Royal Thai Police Crime Suppression Division, shows a person alleged to have shot dead people at a gold shop robbery in a mall in Thailand's central prov]()
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Auschwitz survivor who was just 2 at liberation nurses scars
Only 2 years old and severely ill, Eva Umlauf was one of the youngest prisoners to be liberated from Auschwitz1h ago![Eva Umlauf poses for a photo in Munich, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020. Umlauf was only two years old when she was liberated from Auschwitz. She does not have any conscious memories from her early childhood in the Nazi death camp, but even so the n]()
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China virus outbreak may wallop economy, financial markets
News that a new coronavirus that has afflicted hundreds of people in central China can spread between humans has rattled financial markets and raised...2h ago![Passengers wearing masks walk by as a quarantine officer, center, monitors a thermography during a quarantine inspection at Kansai international airport in Osaka, western Japan, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Chinese health authorities urged people in the]()
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Rescuers resume search for 4 Korean climbers, 3 Nepal guides
Rescuers have taken advantage of improved weather on Nepal's Mount Annapurna to press ahead with a search for four South Korean climbers and three...2h ago![In this Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020 photo, trekkers wait to be airlifted a day after an avalanche hit Mount Annapurna trail in Nepal. Special army and government rescue personnel were searching again on Monday for four South Korean trekkers and their thr]()
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Facing humiliating controls, Lebanese focus fury on banks
Many Lebanese have for long lived beyond their means, supporting their out-sized spending with loans and remittances from diaspora relatives3h ago![FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020 file photo, anti-government protesters smash a bank widows, during ongoing protests against the Lebanese central bank's governor and against the deepening financial crisis, at Hamra trade street, in Beirut, Leban]()
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Jan 21
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5th body found on Tijuana lot; suspect remains in custody
A fifth body has been found on a property in the Mexican border city of Tijuana, and officials say they are beginning to suspect they may have a...Jan 21
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Mexico begins flying, busing migrants back to Honduras
Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops,...Jan 21![Central American migrants cross the Suchiate River from Mexico to Guatemala, near Tecun Uman, Guatemala, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Hundreds of Central American migrants are stranded in a sort of no-man’s land on the river border between Guatemala and M]()
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Jan 21
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New government in crisis-hit Lebanon, but protests continue
A new Cabinet has been announced in crisis-hit Lebanon, breaking a months-long impasse amid mass protests against the country's ruling eliteJan 21![Michel Aoun, Nabih Berri, Hassan Diab]()
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Jan 21
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Dutch court keeps father who isolated family in custody
A Dutch court has detained for three more months a Dutch father accused of shutting his children off from the outside world for years and of...Jan 21
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AP EXPLAINS: How India ended up in turmoil over citizenship
India has been embroiled in protests since Parliament passed a bill amending the citizenship law in DecemberJan 21
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Mexico questions police over disappeared butterfly activist
Prosecutors in western Mexico have called in 53 local police for questioning in the Jan. 14 disappearance of a long-time promoter and protector of the...Jan 21![FILE - In this Dec. 9, 2011 file photo a Monarch butterfly sits on a tree trunk at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary in the mountains of Mexico's Michoacan state. On Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, prosecutors in western Mexico have called in 53 local police offic]()
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Jan 21
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Office of Venezuela's Guaidó raided during his trip abroad
Intelligence police in Venezuela have raided the office of opposition leader Juan GuaidóJan 21![Lawmaker Luis Parra, who broke with opposition leader Juan Guaido and claims the presidency of the National Assembly, leads a session at the National Assembly in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)]()
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Jan 21
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Puerto Rico seeks more help from US after damaging quake
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez is asking the U.S. government to issue a major disaster declaration for 10 additional municipalities following the...Jan 21![In this Friday, Jan. 10 photo, residents from the Indios neighborhood of Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, Milagros Figueroa and Ruben Fantausi, sit under a tarp between vehicles parked on a private hay farm where locals affected by earthquakes have set up sh]()
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Jan 21
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Israeli army kills 3 Palestinians after attack at Gaza fence
The Israeli military said its soldiers killed three Palestinians who crossed the Gaza border fence and threw an explosive device at troops on TuesdayJan 21![Family members of Hamouda Abu Amra gather around campfire to get warm in the winter's cold outside their destroyed house in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020. The five-story house, where 19 people lived, was bombed and destroyed]()
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Jan 21
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Mexico homicide rate edges up in 2019; rate of rise slows
The number of homicides in Mexico rose to 35,588 in 2019, but the rate of annual increase in murders has slowedJan 21![FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2019 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to questions during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City. Shortly before taking office Lopez Obrador decided to create]()
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Jan 21
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Brazil prosecutors charge Vale, individuals in dam disaster
Brazilian prosecutors have filed charges against mining giant Vale, its German auditor and 16 individuals alleging intentional homicide and...Jan 21![FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 file photo, rescue workers in a helicopter search a flooded area after a dam collapsed in Brumadinho, Brazil. Prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais said Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 they will present charge]()
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Jan 21
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Militants kill 36 people in northern Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso's government says militants attacked a market in Sanmatenga province and killed at least 36 peopleJan 21
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Netanyahu tries to rally global opposition to ICC case
Israel's prime minister is calling on the world to take “concrete actions” against the International Criminal Court ahead of a possible war-crimes...Jan 21![Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Gil Cohen-Magen, Pool)]()
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Huawei CFO lawyers say her alleged crimes no crime in Canada
Lawyers for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei argued Tuesday allowing her extradition to the United States would result in Canada bowing...Jan 21![Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, leaves her home to go to B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Wanzhou is in court for hearings over an American request to extradite the executive of the Chinese telecom giant Huawe]()
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Jan 21
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Changing tack, French militants turn off power to press govt
French strikers are using other pressure tactics against government plans to overhaul the pension systemJan 21![French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech as he visits a plant of British-Swedish pharmaceutical group Astrazeneca in Dunkirk, northern France, Monday, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. French President Emmanuel Macron is hosting 180 international busi]()
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Jan 21
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New Cabinet announced in crisis-hit Lebanon ends three-month political vacuum
New Cabinet announced in crisis-hit Lebanon ends three-month political vacuumJan 21
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Brazilian prosecutors accuse Glenn Greenwald in hacking case
Brazilian prosecutors are accusing U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald of involvement in hacking the phones of officials involved in a corruption...Jan 21
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Thunberg tells Davos climate awareness is only first step
Greta Thunberg has wasted little time in pushing back against President Donald Trump's description of climate campaigners as “the perennial prophets...Jan 21![Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg takes her seat prior to the opening session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum will take place in Davos from Jan. 20 until Jan.]()
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Jan 21
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A look back at Auschwitz, 75 years after its liberation
Seventy-five years after the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz by the Soviet Red Army, survivors from around the world will return to the...Jan 21![The railway tracks from where hundreds of thousands of people were directed to the gas chambers to be murdered, inside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz Birkenau or Auschwitz II, in Oswiecim, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019. On January 27, 2020]()
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Jan 21
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Prince Harry reunites with Meghan and Archie in Canada
Prince Harry has reunited with his wife Meghan in Canada as he steps back from royal dutiesJan 21![FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2020, file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after visiting Canada House in London, after their recent stay in Canada. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are to no longer use their HRH titles and wil]()
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Jan 21
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Saudi-led coalition resumes airstrikes near Yemeni capital
Yemeni officials say the Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen is stepping up its bombing campaign near the rebel-held capitalJan 21
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US calls for 'immediate' resumption of Libyan oil production
The U.S. Embassy in Libya is calling for the immediate resumption of oil production in the country, pressuring eastern Libyan forces who have sought...Jan 21
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Allegations bite into business of 'Africa's richest woman'
Portuguese bank EuroBic says it will stop doing business with companies and people linked to its main shareholder Isabel dos Santos after an...Jan 21![In this March 5, 2015 photo, Isabel dos Santos, reputedly Africa's richest woman, attends the opening of an art exhibition featuring works from the collection of her husband and art collector Sindika Dokolo in Porto, Portugal. On Monday, Jan. 6, 2020]()
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Jan 21
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Iran acknowledges Russian-made missiles targeted Ukraine jet
Iran has acknowledged that its armed forces fired two Russian anti-aircraft missiles at a Ukrainian jetliner that crashed after taking off from...Jan 21![People gather for a candlelight vigil to remember the victims of the Ukraine plane crash, at the gate of Amri Kabir University that some of the victims of the crash were former students of, in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020. Iran on Saturday,]()
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Jan 21
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Putin names new Cabinet as key members of Russian govt stay
Russian President Vladimir Putin has formed his new Cabinet, replacing many of its members but keeping his foreign, defense and finance ministers in...Jan 21![Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and New Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin attend a Security Council meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin]()
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Jan 21
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Poland calls on Putin to tell truth at WWII event
Poland has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to refrain from using World War II and Holocaust victims for current political goals and...Jan 21![Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his meeting with ex-Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika and his appointed successor Igor Krasnov in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. The upper house of Russian parliament is set to appro]()
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Violence in northern Syria kills 17, including whole family
Syrian opposition activists say airstrikes on rebel-held parts of northwest Syria and rebel shelling of government-held areas have killed at least 17...Jan 21
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Survivor stories spotlight Auschwitz liberation anniversary
Seventy-five years after the Auschwitz death camp was liberated, Maurice Gluck is one of 75 Holocaust survivors featured in a commemorative photo...Jan 21![In this Friday, Jan. 17, 2020, photo, Holocaust survivor Maurice Gluck, poses for a photo in his home in Ya'ad, northern Israel. Shortly before they were rounded up by Nazi troops in Belgium and deported to Auschwitz in 1942, the parents of three-yea]()
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Jan 21
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NATO chief seeks beefed-up training role in Iraq
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance should boost its military training operation in IraqJan 21![Jens Stoltenberg]()
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Canada to approve new NAFTA free trade deal next week
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will move next week to formally approve the new North American trade agreementJan 21
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Scientists find evidence of oldest impact structure on Earth
The 40-mile wide crater is more than 2.2 billion years old.Jan 21![PHOTO: A Space Station image of the Yarrabubba structure in Australia, site of the oldest known impact crater on Earth.]()
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UK's Lords slam government's Brexit bill over child migrants
Britain’s Parliament has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to think again on part of his key Brexit bill and restore a promise to reunite child...Jan 21![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson steps outside 10 Downing Street, in London, to welcome Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)]()
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UK's Lords slam government's Brexit bill over child migrants
Britain’s Parliament has urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to think again on part of his key Brexit bill and restore a promise to reunite child...Jan 21![Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson steps outside 10 Downing Street, in London, to welcome Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)]()
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Jan 21
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Belarus imports oil from Norway after Russia halts supplies
Belarus has started importing oil from Norway after its main oil provider, Russia, suspended supplies earlier this month amid stalled talks on further...Jan 21![FILE In this file photo taken on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko walk before a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in St. Petersburg, Russia. Russia has halted]()
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Jan 21
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Sled Dog Rally, Year of the Rat, the World Economic Forum: World in Photos, Jan. 21
A look at the top photos from around the globeJan 21![VIDEO: Sled Dog Rally, Year of the Rat, the World Economic Forum: World in Photos, Jan. 21]()
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Britain's EU Journey: When De Gaulle said 'non' twice
Britain officially leaves the European Union on Jan. 31 after a debilitating political period that has bitterly divided the nation since the 2016...Jan 21![FILE - In this Nov. 12, 1944 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, and General Charles De Gaulle, centre, salute at France's Unknown Warrior at the Arc De Triomphe in Paris. Though allies in World War II, De Gaulle twice vetoe]()
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Jan 21
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Many Lebanese say acting FM has no business being at Davos
Lebanon’s acting foreign minister is attending the elite annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss village DavosJan 21![FILE - This Feb. 2, 2019 file photo, Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil arrives to attend the first meeting of the Lebanese cabinet at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanese are campaigning against the participation]()
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Jan 21
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Winter storm lashes Spanish coast, leaves 4 dead, power cuts
A winter storm lashing much of Spain has left 200,000 people without electricity, closed down schools and blocked roadsJan 21![A woman photographs the Mediterranean sea during strong winds in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Jan. 20, 2020. Two people have died as storms carrying heavy snowfalls and gale-force winds lashed many parts of Spain on Monday. The storm has forced the clos]()
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Jan 21
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Abused circus animals arrive at sanctuary
Twelve tigers and five lions have been relocated to South Africa after being rescued from circuses in Guatemala following years of abuse and...Jan 21![One of 17 rescued tigers and lions from Guatemala circuses arrives at the Animal Defender International Wildlife Sanctuary in Winburg, South Africa, Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)]()
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US House Speaker Pelosi visits Auschwitz before anniversary
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has led a six-member congressional delegation to the Auschwitz memorial site in southern Poland ahead of the 75th...Jan 21![In this image provided by the US Consulate General in Krakow, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi places a memorial light on the monument to some 1.1 million victims of the World War II Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau during a visit to the site of]()
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American journalist freed in Lebanon after questioning
An American freelance journalist who was detained in Beirut on suspicion of broadcasting live footage to an Israeli news outlet says he has been...Jan 21
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Bangladesh court orders 231 factories closed to save river
Bangladesh's High Court has asked authorities to shut 231 factories surrounding the highly polluted main river in the nation’s capitalJan 21![FILE- In this Aug. 3, 2016 file photo, laborers work at an aluminum recycling factory near the Buriganga River on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh's High Court has asked authorities to shut down 231 factories surrounding the highly poll]()
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