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FILE- In this May 11, 2016, file photo, musician-activist Bob Geldof speaks to reporters following his speech at the CFA Institute annual conference in Montreal. Geldof says he is returning his Freedom of the City of Dublin honor because it is also held by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, accusing her of complicity for what he and others, including the United Nations, call &quot;ethnic cleansing&quot; of Rohingya Muslims in the Asian nation. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Geldof to turn in Dublin honor to protest plight of Rohingya

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Army Ranger describes battles of faith, fury in Iraq

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In this Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, file photo, a Rohingya Muslim man, Muhammed Yunus, 28, who has not eaten for the past three days grimaces in pain as he along with others wait along the border for permission to proceed to refugee camps near Palong Khali, Bangladesh. More than 600,000 Rohingya from northern Rakhine state have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when Myanmar security forces began a scorched-earth campaign against Rohingya villages. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Lawmakers pressure Trump admin to sanction Myanmar military

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Myanmar charges foreign journalists, others for flying drone

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A firefighter walks at a burnt building following a fire at the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, in Yangon, Myanmar. A fire has nearly destroyed the luxury teakwood hotel popular with foreigners in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Fire rips through luxury Myanmar hotel, 1 body recovered

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In this image made from Oct. 16, 2017, video released by UNHCR, thousands of Rohingya refugees arrive in Anjuman Para, Bangladesh, from Myanmar. Over 500,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees have fled violence in Myanmar and arrived in Bangladesh over the past seven weeks. (Roger Arnold/UNHCR via AP)

Thousands more Rohingya Muslims cross border into Bangladesh

By DAR YASIN - Associated Press

Myanmar's Ambassador to Japan Thurain Thant Zin speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Myanmar’s ambassador to Japan says there is no ethnic cleansing or genocide of Rohingya Muslims in his country despite violence that has led a half million of them to flee the country. (AP Photo/Koji Ueda)

Myanmar envoy denies genocide against Rohingya Muslims

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

In this Oct. 2, 2017 photo, newly arrived Rohingya refugee Yosar Hossein, 7, carries his baby sister Noyem Fatima and walks followed by his other siblings and mother Firoza Begum on a mud bank leading to a Bangladesh army run processing center where they will be allotted their camp, in Teknaf, Bangladesh. Barefoot and still wearing his school uniform, the 7-year-old is among more than a half million persecuted Rohingya Muslims fleeing neighboring Myanmar. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

AP PHOTOS: A Rohingya boy’s struggle to reach Bangladesh

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United Nations Ambassador from U.S. Nikki Haley address U.N. Security Council meeting on Myanmar's Rohingya crisis, Thursday Sept. 28, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

The Latest: Myanmar denies ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Muslims

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FILE- In this Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017, file photo, Muslim protesters shout slogans as they hold posters of Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and Wirathu, the leader of Myanmar's nationalist Buddhist monks during a rally against the persecution of Rohingya Muslims, in Jakarta, Indonesia. When Rohingya Muslims fled persecution and slaughter in Myanmar in past decades, tens of thousands found refuge in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

Business ties complicate Muslim states’ response to Rohingya

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Royhingya refugees from Myanmar receiving food from Bangladeshi aid workers Associated Press photo

Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar must be managed

By Sajeeb Wazed

Alishaan, a Rohingya Muslim man, carries his sick mother Aishya Khatoon to a hospital at Taiy Khali refugee camp, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017. More than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch &quot;clearance operations&quot; in Rakhine state. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

The Latest: US envoy: Alleged abuses should be investigated

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Rohingya Muslims stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Kutupalong refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. With Rohingya refugees still flooding across the border from Myanmar, those packed into camps and makeshift settlements in Bangladesh are desperate for scant basic resources and fights erupt over food and water. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Bangladesh truck carrying Rohingya Muslim aid crashes; 9 die

By ESTHER HTUSAN and JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

The Latest: US calls for meeting on weapons proliferation

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Rohingya Muslims, who crossed over recently from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand in a queue to receive food being distributed near Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. More than 500,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh in the past year, most of them in the last three weeks, after security forces and allied mobs retaliated to a series of attacks by Muslim militants last month by burning down thousands of Rohingya homes in the predominantly Buddhist nation. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

‘Historic exodus’ from Myanmar: US gives $32M for Rohingya

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a televised speech to the nation at the Myanmar International Convention Center in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. After a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims sparked allegations of ethnic cleansing, Suu Kyi said her country does not fear international scrutiny. (AP Photo)

Aung San Suu Kyi, under fire over Rohingya, defends Myanmar actions

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FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2017 file photo, flames engulf a house in Gawdu Zara village, northern Rakhine state, Myanmar. Security forces and allied mobs have burned down thousands of homes in Northern Rakhine state, where the vast majority of the country's 1.1 million Rohingya lived, in recent weeks. (AP Photo, File)

Rohingya Muslims are being wiped off Myanmar’s map

By ROBIN McDOWELL - Associated Press

A Rohingya Muslim man Abdul Kareem walks towards a refugee camp carrying his mother Alima Khatoon after crossing over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, at Teknaf, Bangladesh, Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017. United Nations agencies say an estimated 409,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since Aug. 25, when deadly attacks by a Rohingya insurgent group on police posts prompted Myanmar's military to launch &quot;clearance operations&quot; in Rakhine state. Those fleeing have described indiscriminate attacks by security forces and Buddhist mobs. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Bangladesh restricts Rohingya refugees, starts immunization

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

A Rohingya Muslim woman, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, wails siting beside her relative who fell unconscious after the boat they were traveling in capsized at Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Nearly three weeks into a mass exodus of Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar, thousands were still flooding across the border Thursday in search of help and safety in teeming refugee settlements in Bangladesh. The woman survived. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Fleeing Rohingya Muslims watch as homes burn in Myanmar

By Julhas Alam - Associated Press

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, center, meets with a Rohingya Muslim child at Kutupalong refugee camp, near the border town of Ukhia, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Hasina visited the struggling refugee camp that has absorbed some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled recent violence in Myanmar, a crisis she said left her speechless. (AP Photo/Saiful Kallol)

The Latest: Indonesia sends 34 tons of aid for Rohingya

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