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Updated: 7:20am - Daylpara, Cox's Bazar – Dr Mohammad Hossain has already seen more than 50 injured Rohingya Muslims. Another big number of people are waiting their turn at a nearby mosque in Daylpara village on the banks of the river Naf that separates Bangladesh from Myanmar.

Updated: 7:17am - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Myanmar government to end its military campaign against the Rohingya Muslims, acknowledging that the minority group was being ethnically cleansed in the Buddhist-majority nation. 

Updated: 10:22am - Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein says 'brutal security operation' by Myanmar military against Rohingya has to stop.

Updated: 10:10am - In a marked humanitarian initiative the Bangladesh government will rehabilitate Rohingyas over a 2,000 acre land in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila,

Updated: 9:53am - Pointing to the ashes of a destroyed village that was once home to dozens of Rohingya Muslim families, the abbot of a nearby Buddhist monastery insisted he knew who had set it ablaze.

Updated: 8:00am - Myanmar soldiers barred the entrance to the mosque, men arrived with machetes and petrol cans and then, according to Rohingya Muslim eyewitnesses, the killing began.

Updated: 7:50am - Hurricane Irma has hit Florida with 200km/h winds, flooding the only road connecting the Florida Keys with the mainland and knocking out power to more than 1.6 million homes.

Updated: 7:41am - The alert level for several Vanuatu volcanoes has been raised to level three.

UPDATED: 7:42am - Up to 2,000 Pacific Islanders will be able to work in rural areas of Australia to cover shortages in low and semi-skilled jobs.

UPDATED: 7:30am - Stressing that the US military is now stronger than ever, Trump said, "Hopefully we're not going to have to use it on North Korea. If we do use it on North Korea, it will be a very sad day for North Korea".