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On April 24, 2013, a clothing factory complex near Bangladesh's capital collapsed, killing at least 1,138 workers. - Factory safety - In Bangladesh, a month after the disaster, unions and multinationals signed an agreement on monitoring safety in clothes factories.

Bangladeshi garment worker Sumi Akhter feared for her safety, but was told to start her shift or risk forfeiting her wages. Huda was detained by police in 2016 for reporting on wage protests in garment factories and spent months in jail, which he believes was retribution for showing Rana Plaza was at risk of collapse.

Customers at a Bahrain jewellery store study displays of pearls that are, unusually, 100 percent natural -- the result of attempts to preserve a centuries-old industry. "Each person... who owns or gets a piece of jewellery that contains natural pearls knows no one else has the same."

Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family's conservative media empire of fuelling the 2021 US Capitol riots.

Asian markets fell Friday on lingering recession worries as data indicated the US economy was slowing down, while Federal Reserve officials pressed their case for further interest rate hikes to battle stubborn inflation. But while that suggests inflation could come down, there is a worry that a recession is coming.

On his farm in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil's grain basket, Ilson Jose Redivo finished planting his corn crop a few weeks ago, acting quickly once he'd harvested the soybeans that he'd grown on the same fields.

Elon Musk's long promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the have-paids from the have-nots. "My Twitter account says I've subscribed to Twitter Blue.

Von Miller's girlfriend, Megan Denise, is an American internet model, licensed medical esthetician, and entrepreneur who previously worked as an exotic dancer.

Twitter began the mass removal of its blue ticks on Thursday, as the symbol previously used to signify a verified account vanished from users including the Pope, Donald Trump and Justin Bieber. But on Thursday high-profile accounts, as well as those of many reporters at AFP and other news organizations, appeared to have had the checkmarks removed.
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