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A motorist rides past as residents talk on an alley at a low-income neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 23, 2020. As the virus spreads, the World Health Organization has pointed out that the future of the pandemic will be determined by what happens in some of the world’s poorest and most densely populated countries. From Mumbai to Rio de Janeiro to Johannesburg the question is: What do you do if there is no space to socially distance yourself from others in some of world’s most unequal regions? (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

From Dhaka to Gaza: How do you socially distance in a crowd?

By VICTORIA MILKO and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL - Associated Press

Bangladesh court orders 231 factories closed to save river

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Fire in Bangladesh factory kills at least 10

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In this Sept. 22, 2019, photo, police officers inspect seized gambling equipment at Victoria Sporting Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Security officials in Bangladesh are on the hunt for cash, gold and illicit weapons in a crackdown Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ordered on illegal casinos, rooting out corruption among political elites that critics say has been allowed to flourish in a troubled democracy with no effective opposition. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Used to impunity, Bangladesh elite face corruption crackdown

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2018, file photo, Rohingya refugees shout slogans against repatriation at Unchiprang camp near Cox's Bazar, in Bangladesh. Myanmar and Bangladesh are making a second attempt to start repatriating Rohingya Muslims after more than 700,000 of them fled a security crackdown in Myanmar almost two years ago, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Myanmar, Bangladesh schedule Rohingya repatriation

By JERRY HARMER and JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

IS claims responsibility for Bangladesh explosion

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Myanmar rescue members help an injured passenger in Yangon International airport, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Yangon, Myanmar. A plane operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway while landing Wednesday evening at Myanmar's Yangon International Airport, injuring at least four people including a pilot, an airline official said. Biman spokesman Shakil Meraj said the accident occurred when the Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 aircraft was landing in bad weather after a flight from Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka. (AP Photo/Aye Win Myint)

Plane skids off wet runway in Myanmar; pilot, 3 others hurt

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FILE- A Dec. 29, 2018 file photo of Bangladesh police's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), a security force focused on combating extremist groups, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Indian and Bangladeshi officials and security experts largely dismissed a fresh threat of violence from an Islamic State-aligned media group, insisting that routine monitoring of would-be militants would prevent a Sri Lanka-style attack from taking place elsewhere in South Asia. Al-Mursalat Media released a graphic on Tuesday of five militants who carried out a 2016 attack at a cafe in the diplomatic enclave of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, according to global terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence. Mufti Mahmud Khan, a spokesman for RAB, told The Associated Press that he didn’t place “any great emphasis” on the threat released by the IS-aligned media group. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath, File)

South Asian security experts downplay Islamic State threat

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

CORRECTS PHOTOGRAPHER'S NAME - A high-rise office building damaged by Thursday's fire is pictured in Dhaka, Bangladesh Friday, March 29, 2019. A Bangladeshi housing official said Friday criminal charges would be filed against the owner of the building where a fire killed dozens of people and which had four upper floors constructed illegally.(AP Photo/Al-emrun Garjon)

Bangladesh police arrest building owners over fatal blaze

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

In this image made from video, firetrucks hose down a building on fire in the Banani area of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 28, 2019. An official in the Fire Department control room says the fire had broken out in an office building in Bangladesh's capital, and some people are feared trapped inside. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh high-rise office building catches fire; 17 dead

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Firefighters work to douse a fire in a multi-storied office building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, March 28, 2019. A fire in a high-rise office building in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday killed seven people and injured dozens more, police said. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu )

Criminal case to be filed in Bangladesh fire that killed 25

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

CORRECTS FIRST NAME This photograph released Monday by Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) from their criminal database shows Bangladeshi youth Mohammed Polash Ahmed who was arrested in 2012 by RAB in a kidnapping case. The man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who may not have been armed, officials said Monday, in a reversal of previous allegations that he was carrying a pistol. ( Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion via AP)

Criminal case filed over Bangladesh hijacking attempt

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Bangladesh’s state-run Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight is seen after it made an emergency landing at the airport in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Sunday, Feb.24, 2019. A Bangladesh air force official says the flight from the capital, Dhaka, bound for Dubai made the emergency landing, after a man allegedly attempted to hijack the plane. (AP Photo)

Hijacking foiled on Bangladesh-Dubai flight, suspect killed

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Dubai-bound flight makes emergency landing in Bangladesh after hijacking attempt

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Flames rise from a fire in a densely packed shopping area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. A devastating fire raced through at least five buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital and killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury)

Deadly Bangladesh fire shows lapses in development

By EMILY SCHMALL and JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

A Bangladeshi woman mourns the death of a relative in a fire, outside a morgue in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. A devastating fire raced through at least five buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital and killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Rehman Asad)

Police investigating negligence in deadly Bangladesh fire

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Firefighters work to douse flames in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. A devastating fire raced through at least five buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital and killed scores of people. (AP Photo/Zabed Hasnain Chowdhury)

The Latest: Death toll in Bangladesh fire lowered to 67

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019, photo, firefighters try to douse flames in Dhaka, Bangladesh. A devastating fire raced through at least five buildings in an old part of Bangladesh's capital and killed scores of people. (AP Photo)

Fire guts ancient part of Bangladesh’s capital, killing 81

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Bangladesh police's elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel patrol on motorcycles ahead of the general elections in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is poised to win a record fourth term in Sunday's elections, drumming up support by promising a development bonanza as her critics question if the South Asian nation's tremendous economic success has come at the expense of its already fragile democracy. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Fears of intimidation, violence as Bangladesh set to vote

By JULHAS ALAM and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Bangladeshi students participate in a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. Five days of protests by tens of thousands of students angry over the traffic deaths of two of their colleagues have largely cut off the capital Dhaka from the rest of Bangladesh, as the demonstrators pressed their demand for safer roads. (AP Photo/A. M. Ahad)

Student protests surge in Bangladesh capital

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