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Bangladesh children sweat at home as heatwave shuts schools
Classes are cancelled across Bangladesh due to searing heat, but high school student Mohua Akter Nur found the soaring temperatures at home left her in no state for homework.Bangladesh authorities expect to reopen schools from April 28, before temperatures are expected to recede.
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China warns Blinken over deteriorating ties in talks
China on Friday urged US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to address rising disagreements or risk a "downward spiral" between the two powers as talks opened in Beijing."Should China and the United States keep in the right direction of moving forward with stability, or return to a downward spiral?
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Indian election resumes as heatwave hits voters
India's six-week election juggernaut resumed on Friday with millions of people expected to line up outside polling stations in parts of the country hit by a scorching heatwave.Earlier this week, India's election commission said it had formed a task force to review the impact of heatwaves and humidity before each round of voting.
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Oil: 'Mother of corruption' in Venezuela
Corruption in Venezuela's oil industry is a many-headed monster that has devoured billions of dollars in taxpayers' money in the past 20 years, experts say. To date, oil-related graft has cost the country tens of billions of dollars, with "very little chance of getting it back," she said.
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Frozen in time: Colombian town's unexplained mummies
In a small town high in the Colombian Andes, Clovisnerys Bejarano kneels before a glass box holding the petrified corpse of her mother, who died 30 years ago, but looks as if she might just be asleep. In the late 1980s, some 50 mummies were found in the mausoleum every year, but the rate has declined to a handful per year, said Vergara.
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17 States Sue Over Rule Giving Workers Time Off For Abortions
The EEOC's new guidelines are a "radical interpretation" of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, one attorney general claimed.
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Family Of Trans Woman Killed In Front Of Miami City Ballet Says The System Let Her Down
"Nobody deserves this, to die like this,” Andrea Doria Dos Passos' stepfather said.
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