Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has blamed the international community for stoking tension between the Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslims.In an exclusive interview with Singapore state-owned broadcaster Channel News Asia, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate said: “I would appreciate…
Malaysia (AP/UNB) — Malaysia’s government on Saturday defended plans for a protest rally to condemn what it called “ethnic cleansing” of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority, saying it has an obligation to ensure that its neighbor takes steps to prevent the…
Dhaka – Namita Rani Das, mother of Rasraj who was arrested for hurting religious sentiments through an alleged Facebook post, on Friday demanded the release of her son immediately, claiming her son innocent as he was illiterate and incapable of…
New York – New satellite imagery of Burma’s Rakhine State shows 820 newly identified structures destroyed in five different ethnic Rohingya villages between November 10-18, 2016, Human Rights Watch said today. The Burmese government should without further delay invite the…
Dhaka – The 19th anniversary of the signing of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord was observed on Friday with renewed call for full implementation of the landmark deal.
The United Nations sought an infantry battalion composed of 850 personnel from Bangladesh for its peacekeeping mission.The battalion will be deployed to meet the immediate requirement in Wau area of South Sudan.In this regard a recent request has been sent…
Four-thousand US sailors and marines from the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) have arrived in the Mediterranean Sea after transiting the Suez Canal, according to a release from the US navy. The group, which is comprised of an amphibious assault…
A top UN envoy has warned the Syrian city of Aleppo risks becoming “one giant graveyard” as the government advances on rebel-held areas.Stephen O’Brien pleaded with UN Security Council members to protect civilians “for the sake of humanity”.At least 34…
Bangladesh has received a copy of the parliament building’s original design, prepared by the famous American architect Louis I Kahn, from the University of Pennsylvania.Kahn designed the structure in the early 1960s, when the regime of Pakistan’s first military ruler,…
Dhaka – Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, popularly known as Santu Larma, on Wednesday threatened to go on a ‘non-cooperation movement’ to put pressure on the government to fully implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)…
Marwan Bishara Fillon’s nationalistic rhetoric has transgressed into National Front territory. Francois Fillon, the seasoned French politician who won the weekend’s Republican primaries is nothing like Donald Trump; the two are very different political animals with different characters and different…
Cox’s Bazar – Members of Boarder Guard of Bangladesh (BGB) sent back some 37 Rohingyas to Myanmar following their attempt to intrude Bangladesh territory though the Naf River on Monday night.
Dhaka: Under US pressure, Pakistan had in November agreed to grant independence to what was then East Pakistan, former US diplomat Henry Kissinger has revealed in an interview in the latest issue of The Atlantic magazine. Instead, Pakistan attacked India…
New York (AP/UNB) — You might have thought about it, heard it. A lot. You might have even felt it: Dictionary.com’s word of the year is “xenophobia.” While it’s difficult to get at exactly why people look words up in…
Mosul (AP/UNB) — Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul fought each other around trucks delivering humanitarian aid as they jostled for scant supplies on Monday, while government troops fighting to retake the city from Islamic State militants inched closer…
Seattle (AP/UNB) — A man with a terminal lung disease has completed the Seattle Marathon while towing his oxygen tank.
By Patrick Winn If Myanmar’s notorious army is to be believed — that’s a very big if — its soldiers are facing a highly deranged adversary. Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames. All of them belong…
Ohio — A shooting at Ohio State University sent seven people to the hospital Monday morning, the Columbus Fire Department said shortly after the school sent a series of tweets telling students to shelter in place and to “Run Hide…
The Burmese government should allow human rights monitors and independent journalists prompt and unfettered access to northern Rakhine State to investigate alleged widespread property destruction and other rights abuses against ethnic Rohingya, Human Rights Watch said today.At a news conference…
Baghdad (AP/UNB) — Rekindling sectarian rivalries at a sensitive time, Iraq’s parliament on Saturday voted to fully legalize state-sanctioned Shiite militias long accused of abuses against minority Sunnis, adopting a legislation that promoted them to a government force empowered to…
Los Angeles (AP/UNB) – A civil rights group has called for more police protection of mosques after several in California received letters that praised President-elect Donald Trump and threatened Muslim genocide. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, said the…
Dhaka – BNP on Saturday urged the government to stand beside the oppressed and displaced Rohingya people of Myanmar. “We every day find news in newspapers and on the Facebook how Muslim Rohingya people are being brutally tortured and burnt…
Dhaka – A case was filed against 33 people, including a ruling party MP, upazila nirbahi officer, managing director of Rangpur Sugar Mill and officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj police station, in connection with the attack on Santal people in Gobindaganj upazila…
The BNP has urged the government to stand by the Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing Myanmar amid escalating violence. “Rohingya’s are drowning while trying to flee violence. The government is not allowing them to enter,” senior leader Khandker Mosharraf…
Pakistan’s army says a mosque has been targeted at an army facility in northwest Pakistan, resulting in a shootout in which four of the attackers and two soldiers have died.
Iraq — Wailing and pounding their chests in grief, a dozen women clad in mourning black gathered around a tomb in the massive cemetery in Iraq’s holy Shiite city of Najaf. A short distance away, a grief-stricken man cried silently…
Dhaka – Noting that they have taken all-out steps to check the influx of Rohingyas into Bangladesh, Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Maj Gen Abul Hossain on Friday sought local people’s help in this regard, UNB news…
They come by the thousands.Rohingya refugees from Myanmar’s northwestern Rakhine state are flooding across the border into Bangladesh.They’re fleeing violence that has plagued the state for weeks. Some refugees told CNN they suffered rape, torture, or saw their homes burned…
Paris (AP/UNB) – France published an official notification Thursday urging businesses to use labels to identify goods produced in the Israeli settlements, prompting a swift condemnation from Israel. It was not immediately clear whether the notice published in the French…
Dhaka – Bangladesh today sought international supports to end the Rohingya crisis amid continued influx of the minority Muslims in its territory and offered its assistance for social reconciliation and economic uplift of people in bordering Rakhine State of Myanmar.In…