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Reality Check: Rohingya migrants; battle for Ramadi; Eurovision & national identity; Israel bus segregation; Viktor Orban.

Rohingya Migrants

Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to provide temporary shelter to thousands of migrants who are stranded at sea.

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The decision to offer shelter to migrants came after protests against official policy to reject further Rohinya refugees by pushing them back out to sea.

Many of the migrants at the centre of the crisis in Southeast Asia are Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. Correspondent Tony Cheng reports on the plight of this long-persecuted minority:

The battle for Ramadi

The Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called for Shiite militiamen to help drive Islamic State extremists out of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province.

This many militias have ties to Shiite Iran, which next door to Iraq but which is also a rival of Sunni Saudi Arabia. International Security expert Paul Rogers on the potential ramifications of different countries and groups getting involved in the battle against IS in Iraq.

Eurovision & politics

It’s a glitzy and glamorous spectacle dismissed by many as superficial. But to others, including historian Dean Vuletic from the University of Vienna, the Song Contest is also a prism through which to examine contemporary European history.

West Bank bus segregation

The Israeali Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has overturned orders from the Israeli defence minister to prevent Palestinians entering Israel from the West Bank from travelling on the same buses as Israelis. Jordana Miller reports:

Orban moving to the right?

Some members of the European Parliament were horrified by comments delivered on Tuesday by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who took a hard line on immigrants, and defended his recent calls for the possible reintroduction of the death penalty. We ask our correspondent Nick Thorpe why Orban is taking such a tough line:

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