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• 200,000 Rohingya rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camps
• Pope, urging prayers, says Amazon forest vital for our Earth
• Journalist killed in Mexico

200,000 Rohingya rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camps Posted: 25 Aug 2019 09:21 AM PDT Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh camp Sunday to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. During the brutal August 2017 offensive, around 740,000 of the Muslim minority escaped Myanmar's Rakhine state -- joining those who had fled earlier persecution. A total of nearly one million refugees now live in three dozen squalid camps in Bangladesh's southeastern border district of Cox's Bazar. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Pope, urging prayers, says Amazon forest vital for our Earth Posted: 25 Aug 2019 06:22 AM PDT Pope Francis said Sunday that the Amazon forest is vital for our Earth and is urging prayers that fires there are quickly controlled. Francis added his voice to the chorus of international concern that the blazes in Brazil will have grave repercussions on the world's environmental health. The pontiff, who is from the neighboring South American nation of Argentina, told the public in St. Peter's Square that "we're all worried" about the vast Amazon fires. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Journalist killed in Mexico Posted: 25 Aug 2019 12:25 AM PDT The head of a Mexican news website was found stabbed to death in the center of the country, authorities said Saturday, the 10th such killing this year. The body of Nevith Condes Jaramillo "was found Saturday morning... showing injuries from a sharp object," the state prosecutor said in a statement. Condes Jaramillo, 42, was the head of a local news site in Tejupilco and was also an announcer on a community radio station. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

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