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Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at risk from landslides in the coming monsoon season and should be relocated to a remote island, the country's Foreign Minister said on Thursday, a move opposed by many refugees.
Bangladesh wants to move 100,000 of the nearly one million
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Bangkok, Thailand
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The Indian state of Kerala is offering free flats to homeless people, an ambitious model that activists say other states must follow as a nationwide "Housing for All" plan falls short.
The first 145 families moved into their newly constructed flats in a
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Dakar, Senagal
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Giving more food aid in Ebola-struck parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo could help stop the spread of the second-biggest outbreak in history, aid agencies said on Wednesday.
Food shortages are a long-standing problem in the central African country, where about 13
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Police in Nepal arrested four Christians, including a woman from the US, at a hotel early Tuesday morning on charges of "conversion by allurement", Morning Star News reports.
The US-based news organisation, which covers the persecuted church, reports that police detained the four at their hotel in Ghorahi, about 420
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- ADELA SULIMAN
London
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The world lost 12 million hectares of tropical tree cover last year - the equivalent of 30 football pitches a minute - researchers said on Thursday, warning the planet's health was at stake.
It was the fourth highest annual decline since records began in
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Durban, South Africa
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Rescue workers were digging through collapsed buildings along South Africa's eastern coast, where more than 50 people were killed when heavy rain caused flooding and mudslides, authorities said on Wednesday.
Hundreds have been displaced, mainly in the port city of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal province.
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Wellington, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia
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Tens of thousands gathered in Australia and New Zealand at Anzac Day memorials on Thursday amid heightened security following the shooting massacre at Christchurch mosques and deadly suicide bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka.
A Sri Lankan Government minister
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Garment workers in Bangladesh face lower wages and exploitation as fashion brands have failed to compensate factories for safety improvements backed by big labels, labour leaders said on Wednesday, six years after the deadly Rana Plaza disaster.
The collapse of the factory on the outskirts
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Bangkok, Thailand
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The threat of death sentences against a couple who set up an offshore home near a Thai island, has sparked a debate on the growing "seasteading" movement and the right to create floating settlements to cope with the effects of climate change.
Thailand's
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Troyer Goldman has a “complicated” relationship with religion. While he recognises that much of his moral framework is built on Christian principles, he identifies as neither Christian nor religious.
But on Easter Sunday, Goldman, 21, was singing along loudly and “feeling the rhythm of the music” of
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Friends, family and supporters of prominent Christian author Rachel Held Evans are pooling funds to help cover her medical expenses after she was hospitalised over the weekend and placed into a medically induced coma.
Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu, authors and faith leaders who co-curate the Evolving
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Colombo, Sri Lanka
Reuters
The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the bomb attacks in Sri Lanka that killed 321 people in what officials believe was retaliation for assaults on mosques in New Zealand.
The claim, issued through the group's AMAQ news agency, was made after
