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Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters and the 2016-2017 president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. He was the lead Reuters correspondent for President Barack Obama's 2012 campaign and interviewed the president at the White House in 2015. Jeff has been based in Washington since 2008, when he covered the historic race between Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Jeff started his career in Frankfurt, Germany, where he covered the airline industry before moving to Brussels, Belgium, where he covered the European Union. He is a Colorado native, proud graduate of Northwestern University and former Fulbright scholar.
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Myanmar army opens probe amid reports of killings, abuse of Rohingya Muslims
YANGON Myanmar's military has launched an internal probe into the conduct of soldiers during a counteroffensive that has sent more than half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, many saying they witnessed killings, rape and arson by troops.
Aid groups call for access to Myanmar conflict zone
YANGON, Sept 28 International aid groups in Myanmar have urged the government to allow free access to Rakhine State, where an army offensive has sent 480,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh but hundreds of thousands remain cut off from food, shelter and medical care.
Government will take over burned Myanmar land: minister
YANGON Myanmar's government will manage the redevelopment of villages torched during violence in Rakhine state that has sent nearly half a million Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh, a minister was reported on Wednesday as saying.
U.N. medics see evidence of rape in Myanmar army 'cleansing' campaign
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh Doctors treating some of the 429,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in recent weeks have seen dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks, U.N. clinicians and other health workers said.
Saviors or profiteers? Bangladesh fishermen rescue Rohingya, for a price
SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh For tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, an informal fleet of small wooden fishing boats has meant deliverance from what they say is an indiscriminate assault on their villages by the Myanmar army.
U.N. brands Myanmar violence a 'textbook' example of ethnic cleansing
GENEVA/SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh The United Nations' top human rights official on Monday slammed Myanmar for conducting a "cruel military operation" against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, branding it "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing". | Video
Rohingya crisis fans communal tensions across Myanmar
YANGON/SHAMLAPUR, Bangladesh Communal tensions appeared to be rising across Myanmar on Monday after two weeks of violence in Rakhine state that have triggered an exodus of about 300,000 Rohingya Muslims, prompting the government to tighten security at Buddhist pagodas.
Suu Kyi says Myanmar trying to protect all citizens in strife-torn state
YANGON/COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday her government was doing its best to protect everyone in the strife-torn state of Rakhine, as the estimated number of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh leapt by 18,000 in one day, to 164,000.
Rohingya say their village is lost to Myanmar's spiraling conflict
(Story refiles to add dropped word 'not', in paragraph 10, in the September 7th story)
Exclusive: U.N. expects up to 300,000 Rohingya could flee Myanmar violence to Bangladesh
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh Up to 300,000 Rohingya Muslims could flee violence in northwestern Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh, a U.N. agency official said on Wednesday, warning of a funding shortfall for emergency food supplies for the refugees. | Video
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