Persecuted Rohingya get reprieve from White House aid freeze

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President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze is putting US-backed programs across Asia in peril. But the new White House has made an exception for aid to at least one group: the Rohingya. Most live in refugee camps in Bangladesh, having fled a military purge in their native country of Myanmar. US food aid to the Rohingya will continue — for now — with Rohingya refugees currently facing new threats to their survival. The World’s Patrick Winn reports.