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  • Over the past 48 hours, Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have resulted in at least two Palestinian deaths and eleven injuries.
  • A "final, agreed upon text of the peace deal has been reached" between the US and Iran, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, with "next steps" still to be decided.
  • Iranian state media's description of an agreement, according to US President Trump earlier on Friday, has "nothing to do with the terms that were agreed to, in writing."
  • Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has stated that a deal with the United States to put an end to fighting in Iran is close and includes reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
  • A mass shooting in Midland, Texas, on Friday morning resulted in one death and ten injuries. The alleged gunman is dead after a confrontation with police, according to authorities.
  • Monitoring group SITE reported on Friday that an Iran-affiliated hacking group known as Handala claimed to have breached FBI drones and vowed to target the 2026 World Cup.

Tag: Bangladesh Cox Bazar Refugee Camp

December 9, 2020

Rohingya Relocation Bhasan Char Island

For the last three years, most of the 700,000 Rohingyas who fled violence in Myanmar have been living in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar

March 17, 2020

Lives of Rohingya ‘Better’ in Bangladesh...

The United Nations last week launched an appeal for more than $800 million this year to support some 855,000 Rohingya refugees and 444,000 Bangladeshis in host communities in southeastern Bangladesh

March 3, 2020

Bangladeshi Forces Gun Down 8 Rohingya...

According to a local human rights activist, Monday’s killings marked the deadliest day of violence involving suspected Rohingya criminals in Bangladesh

July 10, 2019

Cox Bazar Flooding

At least 47 water distribution points and network, and over 600 latrines have been affected or damaged, increasing the risk of Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD), to which children are especially vulnerable

June 7, 2019

UNHCR Provides Quality Education to Rohingya...

55 per cent of refugees in the Rohingya settlements in Cox’s Bazar, South-Eastern Bangladesh, are children under the age of 18. However, 36 per cent of Rohingya youngsters aged 3-14 and 91 per cent of youth and adolescents still lack access to any learning opportunities in the refugee sites

April 5, 2019

UN: Climate Change in Bangladesh Could...

The U.N. Children’s Fund says climate change in Bangladesh is threatening the lives and futures of 19 million children or one-third of all children under age 18 in the country

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