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World in brief: March 5, 2023

BANGLADESH: Fire tore through an overcrowded Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar today, leaving thousands without shelter.

No casualties were immediately reported and no cause of the blaze identified.

Over a million Rohingya refugees remain in Bangladesh, having fled an ethnic cleansing operation by the Burmese army in 2017.

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