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• French hiker missing in Italy nine days found dead

  18-08-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of a French hiker who disappeared nine days ago south of Naples was found Sunday, local Italian authorities said. "The body of Simon Gautier has been found a short while ago," the authorities in Sapri, near Belvedere di Ciolandre where the 27-year-old hiker was found dead. Gautier called for help on August 9, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs, but was unable to give his location other than "in the middle of nowhere, on the coast".
  
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• Far-right and antifa groups both claim victory at Portland

  18-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  With both the left and the right declaring victory following a long-hyped rally that had Portland, Oregon, on edge it seems the liberal city will continue to be a flashpoint in an increasingly divided country.City officials were mostly relieved that a downtown gathering Saturday of more than 1,000 far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators wasn't as violent as feared."I'm grateful this was largely a peaceful event," Mayor Ted Wheeler said.
  
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• Migrant rescue ship stuck off Italy rejects Spain port offer

  18-08-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A charity vessel carrying 107 rescued migrants and stuck in limbo off Italy on Sunday rejected an offer to go to Spain as "absolutely unrealistic" because of the "humanitarian emergency" on board.Spain had offered to take in the Proactiva Open Arms ship anchored off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, slamming Italy's "inconceivable" refusal to allow it to dock after 17 days at sea.Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, has refused to allow migr
  
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• 'Fox is different': Donald Trump slams Fox News, questions favored network's poll

  18-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump blasted Fox News, questioning what has long been a favored network for the president after a recent poll found his approval rating slipping.
  
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• 4 Louisiana men to plead guilty in Mississippi bribe scheme

  18-08-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Four Louisiana men say they'll plead guilty to charges that they tried to bribe a Mississippi sheriff with $2,000 in casino chips, seeking lucrative jail contracts.Michael LeBlanc Sr. of Baton Rouge, Michael LeBlanc Jr. of Prairieville, Tawasky Ventroy of Opelousas and Jacque Jones of LaPlace have filed notices this month in federal court in Jackson saying they will change their previous not guilty pleas.All are accused of scheming to win contracts to sell inmates phone service and commissary go
  
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• Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana governor during Katrina, dies at 76

  18-08-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Blanco was the first elected female governor in Louisiana's history. She died Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
  
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• Hundreds answer husband's viral post to attend funeral of El Paso mass shooting victim

  18-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Margie Reckard, one of 22 killed in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, was honored by more than a thousand people.
  
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• 13 Arrested as Far-Right Rally Clashes With Counter-Demonstrators in Downtown Portland

  18-08-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday for a long-hyped rally that attracted President Donald Trump’s attention and resulted in at least 13 arrests.
  
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• The Latest: Families bury their dead after wedding attack

  18-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States envoy who is negotiating with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan says the peace process needs to be accelerated in the wake of a deadly attack on a wedding in the capital, which was claimed by the local Islamic State affiliate.Zalmay Khalilzad said in a Twitter post Sunday that success in the peace process — one that includes the Taliban talking with the Afghan government and other Afghans — will put the country in a "much stronger" position to defeat the IS
  
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• Cathay Remains Under Scrutiny After CEO Takes Fall for Protests

  18-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is counting on the resignation of its British chief executive officer, Rupert Hogg, to move beyond the tumult that saw its employees’ participation in the Hong Kong protests draw the ire of Beijing. But will it be enough?Incoming CEO Augustus Tang has the delicate task of continuing to placate China, an increasingly important market for the 72-year-old airline, while also minimizing the fallout from staff, customers and investors as the unrest in
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march for democracy in latest Hong Kong protest against China

  18-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Heavy rain failed to keep hundreds of thousands of protesters from swarming Hong Kong streets Sunday to rally against the Beijing government.
  
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• Apple CEO warns Trump about China tariffs, Samsung competition

  18-08-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has spoken with Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook about the impact of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports as well as competition from South Korean company Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.Trump said Cook "made a good case" that tariffs could hurt Apple given that Samsung's products would not be subject to those same tariffs.
  
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• Massachusetts RMV suspends 869 more drivers two months after deadly N.H. motorcycle crash

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Massachusetts RMV has now suspended more than 2,400 drivers for out-of-state violations that weren't processed. More are likely.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters flood city streets for largest rally in weeks

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A sea of democracy activists flooded the streets of Hong Kong Sunday under torrential rains in a peaceful demonstration to city leaders that their movement still draws wide public support, despite mounting violence and increasingly stark warnings from Beijing. Hundreds of thousands of umbrella-carrying protesters poured across the heart of Hong Kong island, defying both the downpour and a police order not to march from a park where they had gathered earlier for a rally. Weeks of demonstrations h
  
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• Drug dealer spared jail after telling judge his baldness had ruined his life

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge spared a drug dealer from jail after hearing his alopecia had led to a life of ridicule and that selling drugs was a way of making friends. Cameron Bridges started selling drugs after being frozen out by his peers for much of his school life and to support his £150 a day cocaine habit. Bridges, of Polperro, Cornwall, admitted possession of cocaine, ketamine and cannabis with intent to supply, as well as possession charges and assaulting an emergency worker. Truro Crown Court h
  
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• After El Paso shooting, Mexican Americans can no longer be ambivalent minority

  18-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  We think of ourselves as both an immigrant ethnic group and a racially oppressed minority. After El Paso, that is a luxury we can't afford.
  
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• White House economic adviser: 'I sure don't see a recession'

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow dismissed fears about a possible recession after a roller-coaster week for stocks.
  
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• Tons of pot found in truck full of jalapeno peppers in California, Border Patrol says

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog picked up on something strange Thursday night in a tractor-trailer shipment of jalapeno peppers at a San Diego crossing, the agency says in a release.
  
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• Yuba City man dies in apparent suicide in standoff after police answer assault call

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A 29-year-old man died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Yuba City apartment during a standoff with police on Friday, according to a Yuba City police press release.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi warns cuts in foreign aid could jeopardize budget deal

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Pelosi warned that such a package could be approved only by Congress.
  
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• Leaked UK memos warn of food, drug shortages in Brexit chaos

  18-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Secret British government documents have warned of serious disruptions across the country in the event that the U.K. leaves the European Union without a trade deal on Oct. 31, according to a report.The Sunday Times newspaper published what it said was what the British government expects in the case of a sudden, "no-deal" Brexit.Although the grim scenarios reportedly outlined in the government documents have long been floated by academics and economists, they've been repeatedly dismissed as scare
  
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• Migrants jump off rescue boat to try to reach Italian island

  18-08-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government's hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to let the 107 passengers disembark."We have been warning for days, desperation has its limits," said Open Arms founder Oscar Camps, who released a video showing four migrants wearing orange life vests swimming toward Lampedusa island.In the evening, Open Arms urgently requested permission to enter Lamped
  
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• Mexico City assesses monument damage after anti-rape march

  18-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City's iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous protest over a string of alleged rapes by police.The deputy director of artistic patrimony at the National Fine Arts Institute, Dolores Martínez, said at the base of the statue that officials were assessing the damage to the Angel and other points in the capital that protesters attacked.Protesters wrote phrases like "They don't take ca
  
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• CDC probes lung illnesses linked to e-cigarette use

  18-08-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating a "cluster" of lung illnesses that it believes may be linked to e-cigarette use after such cases were reported in 14 states.The CDC said there was no evidence that an infectious disease was behind the illnesses and that more information was needed to determine whether they were in fact caused by e-cigarette use.The CDC is working with health departments in Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Indiana and Minnesota on the investigat
  
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• U.N. pleads for more help to relieve Venezuelan refugee crisis

  18-08-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed on Sunday for more humanitarian aid for Venezuelan refugees pouring into neighboring countries where they are overwhelming social services and sparking local tensions.Grandi had planned to visit the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima this weekend, but authorities advised him to cancel due to protests by residents unhappy with the arrival of more than 500 Venezuelans a day.Some 180,000 have stayed in Brazil.
  
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• Danish PM says idea of selling Greenland to U.S. is absurd

  18-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Greenland is not for sale and the idea of selling it to the United States is absurd, Denmark's prime minister said on Sunday after an economic adviser to President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. interest in buying the world's largest island."Greenland is not for sale.Greenland is not Danish.
  
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• Man charged in connection with Manhattan rice cooker scare

  18-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Larry Griffin, a homeless man from West Virginia, is charged with placing two devices that looked like pressure cookers in a New York City subway station.
  
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• San Francisco homeless man accused of attacking woman wearing ankle monitor

  18-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC7 News has confirmed that the man accused of attacking a woman outside her San Francisco apartment building has been fitted with an electronic monitor.
  
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• Far-right Proud Boys claim 'mission success' in antifa protest, vow to hold monthly Portland rallies

  18-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The far-right Proud Boys claimed success and vowed monthly protests in Portland after an 'End Domestic Terrorism' rally in Oregon's largest city.
  
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• 7 shot after random Snapchat invites to ‘instant house party,’ Texas cops say

  18-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  An “instant party” in Texas ended with a car chase and several people shot, police say.
  
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• 'No recession in sight' says Trump's top economic adviser

  18-08-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. economy will remain strong through 2020 and beyond, President Donald Trump's top advisers on the economy and trade said Sunday.
  
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• The Israeli spacecraft that crashed on the moon spilled microscopic 'water bears' that can live in space

  18-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Beresheet spilled tardigrades, invisible tiny critters that are capable of living in extreme conditions ⁠— including space.
  
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• UK strips citizenship from dual national 'Jihadi Jack'

  18-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain has revoked the citizenship of a dual national Muslim convert to the Islamic State group dubbed "Jihadi Jack" being held in northern Syria, leading Canada to accuse the UK of off-loading its responsibilities.The move targeting Jack Letts, 24, who was a dual UK-Canadian national, has prompted a diplomatic row with Ottawa, Britain's Mail on Sunday reported.
  
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• Kuwait says emir recovered from 'setback'

  18-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Kuwaiti state media on Sunday reported Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had "recovered", shortly after Iran's foreign minister indicated that the 90-year-old was unwell.The emir "has recovered from a setback and is in good health now", Kuwait's official news agency KUNA said, citing a palace statement, without specifying the nature of the "setback".Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier on Sunday wished Sheikh Sabah a "speedy recovery" after talking with the Gulf state's of
  
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• 'That is ridiculous': Andrew Gillum rips Rick Santorum for claiming guns aren't 'problem' in mass shootings

  18-08-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum slammed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's stance on gun control as “ridiculous” for saying guns are not the “problem” in mass shootings.
  
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• Sacramento files lawsuit to ban 7 men from business district

  18-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of Sacramento has filed an unusual lawsuit to ban seven men considered to be a "public nuisance" from a popular business corridor.The lawsuit alleges the men are "drug users, trespassers, thieves ... and violent criminals" who have illegal weapons and ammunition and have forced police to dedicate an "excessive amount" of resources to the Broadway corridor.City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood filed the suit Aug. 9 in Sacramento Superior Court, according to a copy posted online by The Sacrame
  
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• Hours-old baby abandoned in Maryland woods found by passerby, hospitalized in stable condition

  18-08-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The infant was left in a wooded area in suburban Washington on a 90-degree day without so much as a diaper, according to police.
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell's sister spotted packing up bags near home where socialite was rumoured to be staying

  18-08-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Ghislaine Maxwell's sister has been spotted packing up bags near the secluded beach front mansion the British socialite had been hiding out in after her former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein was rearrested for child sex trafficking charges. Ghislaine, 57, was thought to have been staying at the property owned by Scott Borgerson, in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts for some time but has not been seen in the area for several weeks amid intense scrutiny. However The Daily Telegraph observed her
  
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• Dick Cheney to appear at Trump 2020 fundraiser as Republican establishment bows to president

  18-08-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Dick Cheney will appear at a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to an invitation for the event, in a sign that the Republican establishment will publicly back his re-election bid.Mr Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 as an outsider and has often clashed with senior figures in the party, such as Mitt Romney and the late John McCain.However, an invitation to a luncheon fundraiser in Jackson, Wyoming, shows Mr Cheney will appear alongside Iva
  
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• Italian Left in 11th-hour push to solve political crisis

  18-08-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy’s center-left Democratic Party (PD) and its former rivals of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement are exploring a potential, last-ditch alliance to shape a new government and avoid snap elections, which would likely lead to a sound victory of Matteo Salvini's League.   The surprising alliance between the two sides, which have been constantly battling each other in the past year, shaped up in parliament as the only option to derail plans by Interior Minister Salvini to pull
  
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• IS bomber kills 63 at Kabul wedding as US finalises pullout

  18-08-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Joy and celebration turned into horror and carnage when an Islamic State suicide bomber targeted a packed Afghan wedding hall, killing at least 63 people in the deadliest attack to rock Kabul in months, officials and witnesses said Sunday.The massive blast, which took place late Saturday in west Kabul, underscores both the inadequacy of Afghanistan's security forces and the scale of the problem they face as Washington and the Taliban finalise a deal to reduce the US military presence in Afghanis
  
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• Duke of York pictured inside mansion of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

  18-08-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Peering out from behind the 15ft-high solid oak door Prince Andrew is seen to catch himself and check if anyone is watching as he waves goodbye to an attractive brunette. And it may be little surprise that he was concerned that someone might spot him in the doorway of the £63million Manhattan mansion, as it belonged to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. A video of the encounter emerged as the Duke of York faced a growing list of questions over this association with the financier wh
  
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• Sudan's former dictator Omar al-Bashir due in court for corruption trial

  18-08-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Omar al-Bashir, the ousted former president of Sudan, is expected to stand in court on Monday for the first stage of a corruption trial which could see him jailed for many years. Bashir took power in a 1989 coup but was deposed in April after mass protests and security forces deciding to withdraw support for his brutal regime, which was behind an alleged genocidal campaign in the Darfur region. The 75-year-old former dictator is in prison awaiting the trail, where he faces allegations of po
  
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• The Latest: Hong Kong protesters disperse peacefully

  18-08-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters gathered outside Hong Kong's government headquarters have peacefully dispersed after fellow demonstrators urged them to go home.Sunday's pro-democracy rally, attended by hundreds of thousands, concluded a rare peaceful weekend in the city, which has been beset by violent clashes between protesters and police.Many protesters, however, did not follow the pre-approved guidelines laid out by the authorities.
  
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• Ohio Police Arrest White Supremacist Who Allegedly Threatened to Attack Jewish Community Center

  18-08-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly threatening to attack a local Jewish community center.
  
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• Earthquake cluster slams Kansas county with 11 quakes in 5 days

  18-08-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A county in central Kansas experienced a pretty shocking uptick in seismic activity last week — 11 earthquakes in five days.
  
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• Iranian tanker sets sail from Gibraltar after US detention request rejected

  18-08-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iranian tanker caught in a standoff between Tehran and the West left Gibraltar on Sunday night, shipping data showed, hours after the British territory rejected a US request to detain the vessel further. British Royal Marines seized the tanker in Gibraltar in July on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria, a close ally of Iran, in violation of European Union sanctions. That triggered a series of events that have heightened tensions on international oil shipping routes through
  
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• Pete Buttigieg says Trump voters are 'looking the other way on racism'

  18-08-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Americans who vote to re-elect President Donald Trump in 2020 are, at best, "looking the other way on racism," said Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg.
  
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• Argentina Faces Fresh Turmoil From Resignation, Debt Downgrades

  18-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Life just got a whole lot tougher for Argentina’s Mauricio Macri a week after his shock primary-election defeat sent markets into a tailspin.The embattled president is suddenly grappling with the resignation of his economy minister and a double downgrade to the nation’s debt. Meanwhile, his opponent Alberto Fernandez, now favorite to win the presidency on Oct. 27, is calling on Macri to renegotiate the terms of a record $56 billion credit line with the International Mo
  
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• 10,000 homeless after fire razes Bangladesh slum

  18-08-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday.The fire broke out at in Dhaka's Mirpur neighbourhood late on Friday and razed around 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire services official Ershad Hossain told AFP.Many residents -- largely low-income garment factory workers -- were not in the slum as they had left their homes to celebrate the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday with their fa
  
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