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Massive fire rages through clothing market in Bangladesh capital

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube A massive blaze raged through a retail complex with 3,000 shops in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 4, 2023. There were no immediate reports of casualties but almost all shops were destroyed. Bongo Bazar market is popular among bargain shoppers looking for Western fashion brands. The market sells clothes produced in the city’s textile factories that have…

How Zimbabwe uses gold smuggling to evade sanctions choke

Zimbabwe’s government is using smuggling gangs to sell gold worth hundreds of millions of dollars, skirting some of the consequences of tough Western sanctions imposed on the country over human rights abuses, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can reveal. The smuggling feeds into an enormous money-laundering operation, all facilitated by Fidelity Gold Refinery, a subsidiary of Zimbabwe’s central bank, and enabled, in some cases, directly…

What's driving the recent unrest in Kenya? | Inside Story

Kenya has seen several days of protests and unrest, sparked by a rising cost of living and political divisions. Opposition leader Raila Odinga is leading the demonstrations and calling on president William Ruto to resign. Odinga lost last year’s election by a small margin to Ruto and says he was cheated out of victory. So, can the government contain this turmoil? or will it escalate?…

US and South Korea stage largest joint military drills in years as North Korea test-fires missiles

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube South Korean and US troops staged joint military drills and practised building pontoon bridges to ferry armoured vehicles on March 15, 2023. The joint exercise involved 400 soldiers with 50 pieces of military equipment and two Apache helicopters. North Korea condemned the joint drills as a rehearsal for invasion and proof of hostile policies by Seoul…

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