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Huge blaze at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh kills five and 20,000 flee their shanty homes

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Five people are feared dead and at least 20,000 Rohingya have fled a huge blaze engulfing shanty homes at refugee camps in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said Monday, in the third fire to hit the settlements in four days. Nearly one million of the Muslim minority from Myanmar, many of whom fled a military crackdown in … Read more

Sea shanty has taken over TikTok as users upload their own renditions of the traditional folk songs

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Sea shanties are taking over TikTok as users are rushing in their droves to upload their own renditions of the traditional folk songs to the video sharing site. The craze began when Scottish postman Nathan Evans’ rendition of Leave her Johnny, which was often the last song sung at the end of a voyage by … Read more