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With a strong cyclone approaching Bangladesh on Saturday, authorities used more than 50,000 volunteers and officials to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people from across the low-lying delta nation’s vast coastal region. CBC | World News
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Myanmar, Bangladesh sign deal for potential return of displaced Rohingya Muslims
Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement covering the return of Rohingya Muslims who fled across their mutual border to escape violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. CBC | World News
Read More »What awaits Bob Rae? Abused Rohingya living in epic squalor in Bangladesh
Bob Rae, Canada’s newly appointed special envoy to the Rohingya refugee crisis, arrived Wednesday in the South Asian region as Myanmar’s fleeing Muslim population continues to seek refuge in Bangladesh, already one of the world’s poorest countries. CBC | World News
Read More »Wild elephants attack Rohingya camps, kill 4 in Bangladesh
Wild elephants have attacked a new camp where Rohingya refugees were sleeping, killing a woman and her three children in southern Bangladesh. CBC | World News
Read More »‘The scale is just vast’: Authorities, aid workers in Bangladesh overwhelmed by Rohingya refugees
The movement of Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh is an exodus of vast proportions that has bewildered even the most seasoned aid workers, writes Nahlah Ayed. CBC | World News
Read More »Canada provides $2.5M in urgent funding for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
The federal government announced on Friday $ 2.55 million in funding to United Nations agencies grappling with a huge influx of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar in recent weeks to escape what the UN’s human rights chief has called a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” CBC | World News
Read More »Tens of thousands of Rohingya pour into Bangladesh amid wave of killings and arson
Aid officials said relief camps were reaching full capacity as thousands of Rohingya refugees continued to pour into Bangladesh on Sunday fleeing violence in western Myanmar CBC | World News
Read More »Bangladesh Cricket: 14-Man Squad For Landmark Australia Test Revealed — With One Surprising Comeback
The Bangladesh National Test Cricket team returns to action this week for the fist time since the Tigers’ historic March 19 defeat of Sri Lanka in the 100th Test played by Bangladesh since the country was granted Test status in 2000. But this time, the opponent is the world’s third-ranked Test side and perennial cricket powerhouse Australia, who will be ...
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