On Thursday, Marine Le Pen took her xenophobic and discriminatory discourse a step further – espousing anti-equality and anti-rights positions that reject core values of the French constitutional and political system.According to Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National…
Human rights activists have warned of a worsening campaign of harassment in Crimea against Crimean Tatars, including political arrests, trials and kidnappings.Crimean Tatars lived in the area for centuries before it was settled by either Russians or Ukrainians, but now…
Beirut (AP/UNB) – Islamic State militants recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Syrian troops Sunday, according to both sides in the battle, scoring a major advance after a year of setbacks in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
Jerusalem (AP/UNB) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he believes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will be a good friend to Israel and hopes the two countries can work together to dismantle the international nuclear agreement with Iran.
Cairo (AP/UNB) – Sunday morning Mass was drawing to a close at the chapel next to St. Mark’s Cathedral, the seat of Egypt’s ancient Coptic Orthodox Church, when Magdy Ramzy said there suddenly was a “shattering explosion like nothing I…
Pabna – BNP on Sunday criticised the Election Commission (EC) for its stance on holding Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) without deploying army, saying the Commission is being used as an Awami League office. “The Chief Election Commission does what the…
A bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials say.Dozens of others were injured in the blast in a chapel adjoining St Mark’s cathedral during a Sunday service.Many…
Istanbul (AP/UNB) —Twin attacks by a suicide bomber and a car bomber near an Istanbul soccer stadium Saturday night killed 29 people and wounded 166 others in the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation confronting an array of security…
A cross-party group of 70 British parliamentarians urged the UK government to ‘intensify pressure’ on the Myanmar government and allow full humanitarian access to Rohingya Muslims in the North Rakhine State of Myanmar.“Together with the international community, the UK government…
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the U.S. electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter.…
The UN has urged Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit northern Rakhine state, where the army is accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.The Nobel peace prize winner has faced growing…
Dr. Wakar Uddin PA, USA – The present situation in Arakan is dire as the Myanmar armed forces are continuing the brutal assaults on Rohingya civilian population in Maungdaw and Buthidaung in Northern Arakan/Rakhine state. The growing humanitarian crisis in…
At least 50,000 militants from so-called Islamic State have been killed since the US-led coalition started fighting in Iraq and Syria two years ago, a US military official has said.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today sought Myanmar to resolve the issue of their minority Rohingya community using political means, saying military measures could not be the answer to the problem, as newly appointed Danish ambassador in Dhaka Mikael Hemnid Winther…
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected members of Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) Bangladesh from a reported ‘militant training camp’ in port city Chittagong’s Colonel Haat area on Thursday. The arrestees were identified as Nazim…
Dhaka – The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has surrounded a suspected militant hideout at Colonel Haat in Chittagong.
Iraqi air force kills at least 52 civilians waiting for salaries in western city of al-Qaim with dozens of others hurt. At least 52 people – including many women and children – have been killed when air strikes by Iraqi…
Hawaii (AP/UNB) — Surprise, fear, anger and pride overcame Jim Downing as Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor. Then a newlywed sailor, he recalled a Japanese plane flying low and slow in his direction as he rushed to his battleship from…
Seventy-five years after a Japanese admiral led the attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, the mayor of his hometown is joining his Honolulu counterpart to mark the anniversary — as friends.Tatsunobu Isoda, the mayor of Nagaoka, Japan,…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said Bangladesh is providing shelter to the Rohingyas who are coming here losing everything, but ruled out the possibility to accept all.”We’re giving shelter to those who’re coming here losing everything, but it’s also…
By David Gilbert Well that was quick. Just 24 hours after the European Union criticized them for failing to fulfill their promise to tackle the proliferation of extremist content on their platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and YouTube have announced a…
Islami Andolon Bangladesh (IAB) has announced a programme to organise long march towards Myanmar on December 18 if the atrocities on Rohingya Muslims aren’t stopped.
Rights group alleges security forces held up emergency vehicles and harassed patients after protests turned violent. At least 80 civilians have been killed and about 12,000 wounded in almost five months of confrontation in Kashmir [EPA]At least 80 civilians have…
Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is to visit Pearl Harbor, becoming the first leader of his country to go to the US naval base in Hawaii. Japanese forces launched a surprise attack on the base in 1941, killing 2,300 US…
Dhaka – The European Union has urged the Myanmar government to address the underlying causes of the situation in Rakhine State involving Rohingya Muslims. The call came in the wake of the recent escalation of violence in the region along…
A Dhaka court on Monday deferred submission of the investigation report in connection with the terror attack on the Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1.
(CNN)Celebrations, tears of joy, chanting and drumming rang out among thousands of protesters at the Standing Rock site after the US Army Corp of Engineers announced it will look for an alternate route for the Dakota Access Pipeline to cross…
They have been described as the world’s most persecuted people. Rejected by the country they call home and unwanted by its neighbours, the Rohingya are impoverished, virtually stateless and have been fleeing Myanmar in droves and for decades. In recent…
Dhaka-Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser Dr Gowher Rizvi yesterday said the government is committed to fully implement the CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) peace accord.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak led a protest rally Sunday against what he called a “genocide” of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, as he urged Asian neighbors and the world to step up the pressure to stop the violence.Najib said the…