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Production personnel perform a visual inspection of filled vaccine vials inside the Incepta plant on the outskirts of Dhaka in Bangladesh Saturday Feb. 13, 2021. In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. Yet the factory is operating at just a quarter of its capacity. It is one of three factories that The Associated Press found on three continents whose owners say they could start producing hundreds of millions of COVID-19 vaccines on short notice if only they had the blueprints and technical know-how. (AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how

By MARIA CHENG and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Bangladeshi students clash with police during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday, March 1, 2021. About 300 student activists rallied in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday to denounce the death in prison of Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer and commentator who was arrested last year on charges of violating a sweeping digital security law that critics say chokes freedom of expression. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

300 activists rally in Bangladesh to denounce prison death

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - IN this Feb. 15, 2021, file photo, Rohingya refugees headed to the Bhasan Char island prepare to board navy vessels from the south eastern port city of Chattogram, Bangladesh. The United Nations said Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, that a group of Rohingya refugees is adrift in a boat in the Andaman Sea without food or water, and that their families are worried that many may have already died. (AP Photo, File)

UN: India searching for Rohingya adrift without food, water

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE- In this Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, a Bangladeshi activist sets up a light on a poster displaying a portrait of Avijit Roy, a prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger as others gather during a protest against his killing in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday sentenced five members of a banned militant outfit to death and a sixth man to life in prison for the 2015 killing of the blogger known for speaking out against religious fundamentalism. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad, File)

Bangladesh sentences 5 to death for killing blogger

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees headed to the Bhasan Char island prepare to board navy vessels from the south eastern port city of Chattogram, Bangladesh, Monday, Feb.15,2021. Authorities sent a fourth group of Rohingya refugees to the newly developed island in the Bay of Bengal on Monday amid calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh sends more Rohingya refugees to new island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE- In this Nov. 1, 2015 file photo, Bangladeshi people carry the body of Faisal Arefin Deepan, a publisher of secular books, during his funeral in Dhaka, Bangladesh, . A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants tied to a banned group for the 2015 killing of the publisher of books on secularism and atheism. (AP Photo/ A.M. Ahad, File)

8 sentenced to death in Bangladesh for killing publisher

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE- In this Jan. 16, 2018 file photo, a Rohingya Muslim offers afternoon prayers at a make shift Mosque at Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's bazar, Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh are condemning the military coup in their homeland and saying it makes them more fearful to return. A brutal counterinsurgency operation by Myanmar’s military in 2017 drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims to neighboring Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Rohingya refugees fear returning to Myanmar after coup

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees walk to board a naval vessel to be relocated to to the island of Bhasan Char, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2021. Authorities in Bangladesh sent a group of Rohingya refugees to a newly developed island in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. The government insists the relocation plan is meant to offer better living conditions while attempts to repatriate more than 1 million refugees to Myanmar would continue. (AP Photo/Azim Aunon)

Bangladesh sends more Rohingya to island despite concerns

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Rohingya refugees board a naval ship to be transported to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Officials in Bangladesh sent a second group of Rohingya refugees to the island on Monday despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees left Cox’s Bazar voluntarily under government management. Authorities say the refugees were selected for relocation based on their willingness, and that no pressure was applied on them. But several human rights and activist groups say some refugees have been forced to go to the island, located 21 miles (34 kilometers) from the mainland. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh sends 3rd group of Rohingya refugees to island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2018, file photo, Rohingya refugees bathe at a hand water pump at Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, where they have been living after feeing violence in Myanmar. A fire in a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, has destroyed hundreds of homes. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Fire destroys hundreds of homes in Rohingya refugee camp

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Rohingya refugees travel in a naval ship to be transported to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Officials in Bangladesh sent a second group of Rohingya refugees to the island on Monday despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees left Cox’s Bazar voluntarily under government management. Authorities say the refugees were selected for relocation based on their willingness, and that no pressure was applied on them. But several human rights and activist groups say some refugees have been forced to go to the island, located 21 miles (34 kilometers) from the mainland. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh navy ships take 1,804 Rohingya to isolated island

By ABDUR RAHMAN JAHANGIR - Associated Press

An aerial view of huts at a refugee camp from where Rohingya refugees were moved to an island called 'Bhasan Char' in Balukhali, Bangladesh, Monday, Dec. 28, 2020. Officials in Bangladesh sent a second group of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island in the Bay of Bengal on Monday, despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. More than 30 buses carrying about 1,500 refugees left their camps in Cox’s Bazar district on the way to the island, a government official involved with the process said. (AP Photo/Shafiqur Rahman)

Bangladesh sends 2nd group of Rohingya to isolated island

By ABDUR RAHMAN JAHANGIR - Associated Press

A Rohingya refugee woman who is among those being moved to an island called ‘Bhasan Char’ cries outside a transit area where they are temporally housed in Ukhiya, Bangladesh, Thursday, Dec.3, 2020. (AP Photo/ Shafiqur Rahman)

Bangladesh begins relocating Rohingya refugees to island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees board a ship as they are ferried to Bhasan Char, or floating island, in the Bay of Bengal, from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020. Authorities in Bangladesh have begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process. (AP Photo/Saleh Noman)

First Rohingya refugees arrive at isolated Bangladesh island

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Supporters of Islami Oikya Jote, an Islamist political party, hold up an effigy representing French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest against the publishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Muslims in the Middle East and beyond on Monday called for boycotts of French products and for protests over the caricatures, but Macron has vowed his country will not back down from its secular ideals and defense of free speech. Posters read &quot;France is the enemy of humanity. World citizens fight back.&quot; second left, &quot;Muslims of the world stand against insults to the prophet,&quot; third right and &quot;Stop buying products from France. In the name of the Prophet,&quot; left. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Hundreds of Muslims hold anti-France protest in Bangladesh

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Protesters deface a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron during a protest over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem insulting and blasphemous, outside the French Embassy, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Muslims in the Middle East and beyond on Monday called for boycotts of French products and for protests over the caricatures, but France's president has vowed his country will not back down from its secular ideals and defense of free speech. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Thousands in Bangladesh protest against French cartoons

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A women’s rights activist among those protesting against gender based violence holds a placard outside the Parliament in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Oct.9, 2020. Bangladesh's Cabinet has approved an increase in the maximum punishment in rape cases to death from life imprisonment after a series of recent sexual assaults triggered protests. (AP Photo/ Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Bangladesh’s Cabinet approves death penalty in rape cases

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List 2/4 of sports events affected by coronavirus pandemic

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