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02 Aug

Tourists, villagers flee as wildfires ravage Turkish resorts

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Wildfires raged near Turkey’s holiday beach destinations of Antalya and Mugla and in the surrounding countryside for a fifth day as the discovery of more bodies raised the death toll to eight while villagers lost their homes and animals. Residents and tourists on Sunday fled the danger in small boats while the coast guard and two navy ships waited out at sea in case a bigger evacuation was needed. Fires also enveloped Mugla province’s Mazikoy, and villagers who evacuated were devastated. Residents had to flee nearby Cokertme village as flames neared. Some got on boats and others left by cars…

By 2025, Covid will have cost world between $16 tn and $35 tn

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By 2025, Covid-19 will have cost the world between $16 trillion and $35 trillion, as per McKinsey. The world is unlikely to ever reach global herd immunity, but it can contain the virus with a combination of vaccines, improved testing, and smarter quarantining, based on known outbreaks, rather than large, blunt lockdowns, McKinsey said in a report. Obstacles to worldwide vaccination remain huge: while 49.6 per cent of inhabitants of high-income countries had received at least one dose of the vaccine as of July 14, only 1 per cent of those in low-income countries had. In the next two decades,…

Dhaka blast: Police rule out foul play and suspect leak gas

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The boom was so powerful that it shattered the windows of nearly a dozen nearby buildings. According to Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Shafiqul Islam, the blast damaged seven surrounding buildings and two passenger buses, killing seven people and injuring 400 others, 50 of whom were gravely injured. The severly injured were taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.The Dhaka Community Hospital treated around 300 patients, according to AZM Rahmatullah Shabuj, the hospital's outdoor in charge, who added that the victims had largely cuts on their bodies or…