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‘Constant danger’: Life after leprosy, a long neglected disease

Dan Izzett has lived with leprosy’s effects on his body for 70 years, and has lost much to what he calls an “ancient, fascinating, very unkind disease”. The Zimbabwean former

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Winter Pitha: Heartwarming roadside delicacies

There is hardly any person who has come to mega city Dhaka from a rural area but does not have a sweet memory of eating pitha, steamed or fried cake,

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Char Women Challenge 4IR

“Earlier I haven’t seen any automated single-needle sewing machine but now we are operating six types of multi-needle machines to make many innovative products,” said Najma Begum, a divorcee and

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Global firms help Myanmar’s military make weapons: Report

Myanmar’s military is producing a vast range of weapons to use against its own people thanks to supplies from companies in at least 13 countries, former top UN officials say.

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An unseen presence: Fear of tiger attack grips 6 villages along Sundarbans

The residents of six villages near the Sundarbans are literally living in fear for their lives as a hundred footprints of two tigers were spotted in Sonatala village of Bagerhat’s

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UN calls for urgent help to combat acute child malnutrition

The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition “before it is too late” in countries being hammered by the food crisis.

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The covert winter wave of Covid-19

In late October 2022, epidemiologists and infectious disease experts around the world began to notice an unsettling trend. As the epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explained in a Twitter thread, there was

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Iran: Jailed activist Qolian describes brutality in letter

One of Iran’s most prominent female activists has described how confessions are forced out of prisoners, in a letter written inside a notorious jail. Sepideh Qolian has been serving a

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Harry attacks lack of royal defence for Meghan

Prince Harry has accused the Royal Family of failing to defend his wife Meghan in the controversy over a Jeremy Clarkson newspaper column. In an ITV interview, the Duke of

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Sri Lanka crisis forcing children out of school

Ten-year-old Malki is too excited to stay in bed. She’s up an hour before her two sisters and two brothers so that she can scrape some bright red gloss off

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