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UN agency calls for aid as thousands flee Myanmar daily
August 31, 2017
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CWN Editor's Note: Some 400,000 people have left Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh, 18,500 of them since August 25. The Vatican newspaper covered this story on the front page of its August 31 edition; Pope Francis will visit Myanmar in November.
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