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The death toll from the Bangladesh building collapse has now reached 610 as searchers clear rubble away from the site, officials said.
Parliament in Muslim-majority Bangladesh got its first woman speaker with the election of Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, 47, a lawyer who was unopposed.
UPI Almanac for Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
An assault by Islamists on a Hindu temple in Chittagong has Bangladesh's govt. considering options.
One protester is dead and dozens injured in clashes with police during the countrywide national day of protest called for by Bangladesh's largest political party.
UPI Almanac for Monday, March 19, 2012.
Police used batons, rubber bullets and teargas to clear the streets of the capital as rioting Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporters called for a general strike.
Clashes broke out in Bangladesh's capital Sunday during a nationwide strike called by the opposition, authorities said.
A Bangladesh court ruling says it was the late Sheik Mujibur Rahman, who proclaimed the country's freedom, thus preserving his father of the nation title.
Two former Bangladeshi prime ministers are trading accusations about alleged assassination plots against them in the lead-up to parliamentary elections.
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