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Rohingya Refugees at Risk from Diptheria
Medical team to go to Bangladesh to save thousands of Rohingya refugees at risk from diptheria.
An emergency medical team is being sent to Bangladesh, to save thousands of Rohingya refugees at risk from a deadly outbreak of diptheria; a camp in the occupied West Bank may be the most exposed place to tear gas in the world; and tennis star Andy Murray's brother-in-law believes he has become the youngest person to reach the South Pole solo. Scott Sears, a lieutenant in the First Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles, pulled a sled and supplies for 38 days through 150mph winds in temperatures of -50c.
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