[POLA] Saudi factory fire kills 16 Bangladeshis, Dhaka announces
Bangladesh’s foreign ministry reported “the tragic deaths of 16 Bangladeshi nationals in a fire at a sofa manufacturing factory in Riyadh” in its Monday statement.
Bangladesh’s foreign ministry reported “the tragic deaths of 16 Bangladeshi nationals in a fire at a sofa manufacturing factory in Riyadh” in its Monday statement.
The Philippines is the first major landmass facing the Pacific cyclone belt and the archipelago is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons each year.
More than 300 firefighters and 21 aircraft are battling a wildfire in Tírig, eastern Spain, which has burned 810 hectares since breaking out on Friday.
Hundreds of costumed paddleboarders floated down Moscow’s Yauza river on Sunday for an annual stand-up paddleboard carnival, cheered on by live bands and crowds on the bridges above.
Hundreds of kayakers paddled through Copenhagen harbour on Sunday waving Greenlandic flags, marking the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples in a show of solidarity with Greenland.
The six killed by Colombian forces on Sunday include four members of a splinter faction of the former FARC guerrilla group, as well as, two members of the Gulf Clan, Colombia’s main drug cartel, in Antioquia department in the northwest.
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