News in Brief
Massive fire hits Rohingya camp
AP – A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said.
No casualties were reported immediately at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque, a fire service official.
North Korea: UN should urge halt to US-South drills
AFP – North Korea’s Foreign Ministry called on the United Nations to urge a halt to joint military drills by Seoul and Washington, state media reported Sunday.
The drills and rhetoric from the allies have pushed tensions to an “extremely dangerous level,” Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong said in a statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency.
The statement came after officials from Seoul and Washington announced on Friday more than 10 days of large-scale military exercises from March 13
to 23.
UK PM vows to end asylum claims from small boat arrivals
BBC – Anyone arriving in the UK on a small boat will be prevented from claiming asylum, under new legislation expected to be unveiled on Tuesday.
PM Rishi Sunak, who has made “stopping the boats” one of his top priorities, told the Mail on Sunday: “Make no mistake, if you come here illegally, you will not be able to stay.”
A new “rights brake” could stop lawyers using the right to family life to stop deportations, the paper says.