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BANGLADESH: Rations will be halved for around one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from next month due to a lack of funds, the United Nations food agency has said. Huge numbers of the persecuted and stateless Rohingya community live in squalid relief camps in Bangladesh, most arriving after having fled from a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar. Successive aid cuts have already caused severe hardship among Rohingya in the overcrowded settlements, who are reliant on aid and suffer from rampant malnutrition. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a letter on Wednesday (Mar 5) that “severe funding shortfalls”…

A formerly “puny” man could not find anyone tall enough to guard him.A few years into his professional career, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander needed to add post-up drills to his summer routine. His trainers, far from the typical troop that surrounds an NBA superstar, couldn’t meet the criteria. Gilgeous-Alexander spends his summers in Hamilton, Ontario, near where he grew up. His morning workouts, which begin at 6 a.m., include a Team Canada assistant coach and six friends from high school.The gang goes by the name of its text chat: “Sunrise Training.” But no regular sunrise trainer is bigger than 6 foot 2.…

The South Korean village of Nogok was shelled after two fighter jets misfired during a drill. The village is in the town of Pocheon, near the border with North Korea.

The F.B.I. arrested an Afghan national charged with playing a role in the deadly 2021 attack on U.S. service members as they carried out a tumultuous evacuation of civilians at Afghanistan’s main airport, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.The man, Mohammad Sharifullah, is accused of helping a suicide bomber approach the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul that August without being detected. The horrific attack killed 13 U.S. military service members and approximately 160 civilians.Mr. Sharifullah was flown back to the United States early Wednesday and charged with violating terrorism statutes. He appeared later that day in federal court in…

On Wednesday morning in downtown Washington, D.C., Keyonna Jones stood on her artwork and remembered the time when she and six other artists were summoned by the mayor’s office to paint a mural in the middle of the night.“BLACK LIVES MATTER,” the mural read in bright yellow letters on a street running two city blocks, blaring the message at the White House sitting just across Lafayette Square. In June 2020, when Ms. Jones helped paint the mural, demonstrations were breaking out in cities nationwide in protest of George Floyd’s murder. The creation of Black Lives Matter Plaza was a statement…

Steve Smith’s one-day international retirement more than two years out from the next 50-over World Cup raises questions about who will be next among his ageing teammates.Mitchell Starc, also 35, immediately comes to mind, especially given he has already declared Test cricket his priority and flagged cutting his workload as he approaches the latter stages of his career.Starc recently mentioned missing the Champions Trophy for a few reasons, including focusing on getting his body right for Test and Twenty20 formats.The left-armer has been one of the very best when it comes to ODI cricket so I will be interested to…

South Korea was holding combined live-fire drills with the United States on Thursday in Pocheon, the Yonhap news agency reported. South Korea’s National Fire Agency said that the bombs were “presumed to have fallen on a village during a South Korea-US joint exercise”. The Gyeonggi-do Bukbu Fire Services said in a statement that 15 people were wounded, out of which two were seriously hurt. One church building and sections of two houses were also damaged, according to the National Fire Agency. “LIKE A THUNDERCLAP” One local resident, who gave only his surname Park, told Yonhap that he had been at…

These are the key developments on day 1,106 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is the situation on Thursday, March 6: Fighting Russian forces attacked an energy facility in the Odesa region in southern Ukraine, the region’s energy firm DTEK said. According to the firm’s statement, this is the fourth attack on the energy infrastructure in the region within two weeks. Attacks in the Odesa region damaged “critical infrastructure” and resulted in power, water and heat outages in the Black Sea territory, regional authorities said. Odesa’s Governor Oleh Kiper said a 77-year-old man was killed by shrapnel in a village outside…

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing a new Democratic challenger in his bid to replace Eric Adams as New York City Mayor, according to reports. New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, 64, will officially launch her campaign with a rally over the weekend, per reporting from FOX 5 NYC. With the Democratic primary just four months away, Adams is expected to immediately petition to secure ballot access. In a statement to media outlets, Adams said New Yorkers couldn’t afford to live in the city, that City Hall was “in chaos,” and alleged that President Donald Trump was “corrupting our city’s…

A Dominican man wanted in his home country for human smuggling that resulted in the deaths of three minors was deported by ICE Miami earlier this week, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).Batista Matos, 36, was sent home on an ICE removal flight for the fifth time on Monday. He departed Miami for Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where he was met by local law enforcement and taken into custody.CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE  Batista Matos, 36, was deported to the Dominican Republic for the fifth time on Monday to face charges in connection with fatal human smuggling. (ICE…