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  Post-pandemic stimulus packages may bring threats to environment

  Agence France-Presse . Paris, France | Updated at 01:39pm on December 08, 2020

  Enormous stimulus packages to boost post-pandemic growth could worsen global warming with huge investments in fossil fuel activities, an international group of researchers has warned...

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  Independent artists fill in the gap of pandemic-hit Bollywood

  Agence France-Presse . Mumbai, India | Updated at 11:50am on December 08, 2020

  Bollywood movie songs normally dominate India’s music charts. But when the coronavirus pandemic put paid to new film releases, it created a huge opportunity for...

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  Indonesia arrests minister over pandemic aid corruption

  Agence France-Presse. Jakarta | Updated at 05:19pm on December 06, 2020

  Indonesia's social affairs minister was arrested Sunday for allegedly taking $1.2 million in bribes linked to food aid for those hit by the coronavirus pandemic....

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  Pandemics, climate change ‘intensify’ global health threats

  Agence France-Presse .Paris | Updated at 10:59am on December 03, 2020

  From small island states to urbanised powerhouses, every country on Earth faces ‘multiplying and intensifying’ threats to human health as climate change renders future pandemics...

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  Virtual child abuse increased worldwide during COVID-19 lockdowns

  Agence France-Presse . Brisbane | Updated at 11:56am on December 02, 2020

  Out-of-school kids and adult predators spending more time at home and on the internet during the coronavirus pandemic is the ‘perfect storm’ driving a spike...

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  Awami League govt has destroyed heath sector: BNP

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 04:48pm on November 25, 2020

  Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Selima Rahman on Tuesday said that Awami League government had destroyed the health sector of the country. While speaking...

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  Two Bangladeshis placed in BBC’s 100 influential women list

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 02:43pm on November 24, 2020

  Two Bangladeshi women are named in the list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2020 revealed by the BBC...

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  Munnujan urges ILO to play active role in reviving economy

  United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 12:37pm on November 07, 2020

  State minister for labour and employment Munnujan Sufian on Friday urged the International Labour Organisation to play an active role in fighting against the coronavirus...

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  Stranded workers demonstrate in Bangladesh for return to Malaysia

  Staff Correspondent | Updated at 03:20pm on November 02, 2020

  Several thousand migrant workers who came to the homeland for enjoying holidays and got stranded due to the coronavirus pandemic, demonstrated in front of the...

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  Vaccine nationalism will prolong pandemic, WHO chief warns

  Agence France-Presse . Berlin | Updated at 10:35am on October 26, 2020

  The head of the World Health Organisation on Sunday called for global solidarity in the rollout of any future coronavirus vaccine, as the number of...