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Bangladesh
Fire Destroys Clothing Market
A massive fire began this morning, blazing through the popular clothing market, Bongo Bazaar, in Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka. The fire spread quickly and continued to burn for six hours, causing 600 firefighters from around the city to join forces in an effort to extinguish the flames. Thousands of shops were destroyed in the fire, containing garment products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Many of the shop owners had purchased an excess of clothing materials in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim festival marking the end of Ramadan. Although the cause of the fire is still unknown, fires are common in commercial areas of Bangladesh due to a lack of fire safety standards and prevention resources.
This map depicts the location of the clothing market affected by the fire in Bangladesh's capital. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Barron's
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Iraq
Oil Shipments to Resume
Authorities in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have come to a new agreement with the central government to resume oil shipments to Turkey. The shipments will head to Ceyhan, Turkey via pipeline from Kurdish territory in northern Iraq, after having been halted last month when a business tribunal ruled that Kurdistan couldn't ship oil without approval from the Federal government in Baghdad, forcing Turkey to close the pipeline. The shutdown caused a spike in prices over the last few weeks, however the new agreement will resume with around 400,000 barrels of oil heading to the market every day.
This map depicts the Ceyhan pipeline, which delivers oil from Iraqi Kurdistan into Turkey and is set to resume operations. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: Bloomberg
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United States
Oil Pipeline Challenged Again
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a water permit needed by Equitrans Midstream Corp to restart construction on the Mountain Valley pipeline in West Virginia, marking the latest setback for the $6.2 billion project. Before the 303-mile (488 km) proposed project can cross through the state’s streams and wetlands, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection must reconsider the permit. Landowners and environmental groups sued in 2022 after the agency ignored Equitrans' history of violating state water regulations when it first issued the permit under the Clean Water Act. The vacation of the permit is one of the final roadblocks for the project, which is 94% complete despite having already doubled in cost and being more than four years behind schedule. The final pipeline will be governed under the United States Natural Gas Act.
This map depicts the Mountain Valley Pipeline running from Wetzel County in West Virginia to Pittsylvania County in Virginia. Click on the map to learn more.
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By 1900, which empire ruled over 25 percent of the world's population?
A: British Empire
The United Kingdom is made up of the island of Great Britain, which includes England, Wales, and Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland, just 12 miles away across the Irish Sea. South of Northern Ireland is the country of Ireland, which gained independence from the UK in 1937. Wanting to grow and find wealth similar to Portugal and Spain around the 16th Century, the UK began establishing colonies that would eventually become the United States. In 1607, Jamestown, or current day Virginia, was the first English settlement in the Americas. After the UK lost its earliest American colonies when the US gained independence after the Revolutionary War, the UK shifted its attention eastward. Establishing the East India Trading Company to trade with what is now India, Indonesia, and other parts of southeast Asia, the trading company's control eventually led to full colonization of the region in 1858, specifically of India. Around this time, along with huge settlements across Africa, Canada, Australia, and throughout the Caribbean and many Pacific Islands, the British colonies around the world were coalesced to become the British Empire, which by the 1900s ruled over a quarter of the world's population. Following the World Wars of the 20th Century, the UK was unable to continue supporting its overseas colonies as it was recovering from the wars, and by the mid 1950s, colonies around the world sought their independence.
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