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Rohingya Muslims fleeing unrest in Myanmar have been injured by multiple blasts along the border with Bangladesh, raising fears that the area has been deliberately mined.
Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh in the past 10 days following an uptick in fighting between militants and Myanmar's military in strife-torn western Rakhine state.
Cyclone Mora swept through Bangladesh on Wednesday, sweeping away thousands of primitive huts that many of the Rohingya Muslim refugees were living in.
Those executed included two Kuwaitis, two Egyptians and one each from Bangladesh, the Philippines and Ethiopia.
Amid the growing threat of the Islamic State group, Bangladesh is putting to death a leader of another fundamentalist group responsible for a wave of militant attacks.
The UN General Assembly will meet next week to discuss the conflict in Gaza, after the death toll reached over 5,000.
All five UN security workers kidnapped by al-Qaeda in Yemen have now been released.
Crossings from Libya have increased this year - and become even more deadly.
UNHCR reported has reported a dramatic increase in the number of people attempting to cross the Andaman Sea this year.
Each year many Rohingya risk their lives boarding rickety vessels to reach Malaysia.