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Today, tens of thousands of foreign fighters joined Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

What will become of their families now the self-declared califet is crumbling.

Ill-informed gossip can be deadly we hear in Madagascar making it harder to fight disease.

We find out what a chocolate king and a man called a clown by some have to do with corruption

in Ukraine. And we settle down with a drink to watch Canadian, not American football, and try not to talk politics.

Bangladesh has long offered refuge to Rohingya people trying to escape persecution in Myanmar. But since August, huge numbers have crossed the border,

fleeing violence and Rakhine State. A deal has been signed between the two countries

to return the refugees, but how and when that might happen is

unclear. They don't have homes to go back to. Their houses have been burnt and their possessions

destroyed. And as Justin Rolat found, thousands more Rohingya refugees remain stranded on the beaches of Myanmar, still hoping to leave.

Nobody wanted to take us out onto the nuff, the slow-moving river that divides Bangladesh from

Myanmar. It was only when we got formal permission from the Bangladesh border guard that a

fishermen finally agreed.

Abble's boat was beautiful, a graceful wooden crescent.

The ancient diesel engine was not.

It coughed out clouds of black smoke as it sputtered into life.

Even from the Bangladeshi side, I could see the smudge of colour

on the top of the beach.

As we chugged closer, it resolved into a row of tents. There were black silhouettes stick figures moving,

the last stragglers from the great tide of Rohingya refugees that has poured into Bangladesh recently. They must have seen the boat coming

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