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Coronavirus: Spain reports no new deaths for first time since March
- World
- June 1, 2020, 10:24
Spain has reported no deaths in a 24-hour period from Covid-19 for the first time since March. Emergency health response chief Fernando Simon said th(...)

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: How rape is used as a weapon of war
- Books
- March 28, 2020, 06:00
In Rwanda six years ago, I watched a grown man wail and realised I knew little about the horrors humans inflict on each other. He was a prominent memb(...)

Bangladesh: At least 10 people die in factory fire
- Asia-Pacific
- December 15, 2019, 16:54
At least 10 people have died in a fire at a factory outside Bangladesh’s capital, the second such blaze in the area in less than a week. The fire bro(...)

David McWilliams: What the world’s megacities can teach Dublin
- Opinion
- September 14, 2019, 06:00
Dubai is not for everyone. The glittering metropolis, which erupts out of the desert, captures much that is good and bad about humanity in a few squar(...)

World’s most liveable cities for 2019 revealed
- Abroad
- September 4, 2019, 16:20
Vienna has held off Melbourne to retain the top spot on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index for 2019, further strengthening its(...)

About 3,000 homeless as fire consumes Bangladesh slum
- Asia-Pacific
- August 18, 2019, 18:57
About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the (...)

Dhaka fire: Criminal charges to be filed against building owner
- Asia-Pacific
- March 29, 2019, 17:18
Criminal charges are to be filed against the owner of a building in Dhaka where a fire killed at least 25 people and which had four illegally construc(...)

At least 19 people were killed and 70 injured in a fire in a 22-storey building in the Banani commercial district of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on (...)

Man killed after attempting to ‘hijack’ plane in Bangladesh
- Middle East
- February 24, 2019, 18:35
A Bangladesh flight bound for Dubai made an emergency landing on Sunday in Chittagong after a man attempted to hijack the plane, officials said. The (...)

The problem with banishing Shamima Begum
- Opinion
- February 23, 2019, 03:00
It was, former US chief justice Earl Warren remarked, “a form of punishment more primitive than torture”. For Voltaire, it was not only irrational but(...)