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Refugees from Kobani gather at a Turkish border crossing waiting to return home after Kurdish militia regained control of the strategic border town. Nathan Frandino reports.
Indonesian authorities on Thursday rescued at least 69 Rohingya refugees who had been at sea for weeks after their boat capsized a day earlier. The refugee group's wooden boat and another vessel trying to help them both capsized on Wednesday, with survivors estimating that around 150 Rohingya had been on board with dozens swept away. Rescuers had rushed to save the group of Rohingya after they spotted them in the water, stranded and holding onto an overturned boat off the coast of western Aceh province. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with residents of Blendecques, a town in France's northern region of Pas-de-Calais, as the nearby river Canche burst its banks again in a region already affected by several episodes of flooding. IMAGES
Indonesian officials register hundreds of Rohingya refugees at an unused immigration building in Lhokseumawe city in Aceh province. They are part of the latest influx of Rohingya who arrived at Sabang island the day before. IMAGES
More than 200 Rohingya refugees were relocated from the beaches of a remote Indonesian island on Wednesday as authorities drive them in trucks and prepare them to be transported by ferry to a temporary shelter. More than 1,000 desperate and exhausted Rohingya have landed on the shores of Aceh province in the last week. IMAGES
More than 200 Rohingya refugees are huddled on the beaches of a remote Indonesian island after weeks adrift on a wooden boat, as authorities rejected locals' efforts to push the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority back to sea. IMAGES
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