DHAKA: More than 500 migrants including Bangladeshis were detained in a latest crackdown by the Malaysian government against undocumented immigrants.  Malaysia started the crackdown on Saturday (September 1) after a government deadline for illegal immigrant workers to go back to their

The US military says it is cancelling $300m (£230m) in aid to Pakistan over what it calls Islamabad's failure to take action against militant groups. President Donald Trump has previously accused Pakistan of deceiving the US while receiving billions of dollars. Pentagon

Theresa May has insisted she will not be forced into watering down her Brexit plan during negotiations with the EU. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister says she will "not be pushed" into compromises on her Chequers agreement that are not in the "national interest". But

A supervisor at Sochi airport in Russia has died during an emergency response after a landing plane careered off the end of the runway into a riverbed and caught fire, officials have said. Russian health ministry said 18 people were injured in the accident, which occurred at about 3am

A Bangladeshi origin UK man who plotted to kill Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide attack has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years. Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, from north London, was convicted last month of preparing acts of terrorism, reports

The United States is ending all funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, the US State Department says. It described the organisation, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), as "irredeemably flawed". The US administration has "carefully reviewed" the issue

A new book on the Rohingya crisis written by Myanmar military propagandists uses fake photographs and a chilling rewriting of history in what appears to be an attempt to justify the killing of thousands of Rohingya over the last year in attacks by the army that the UN has condemned as

The sale of energy drinks could be banned in England to anybody under 18, amid fears they are damaging children's health, the prime minister has said. The government has launched a public consultation on its plans to make it illegal to sell the drinks to children. Energy drinks

The outgoing UN human rights chief says Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have resigned over the military's violent campaign against the Rohingya Muslim minority last year. Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein told the BBC the Nobel Peace prize winner's attempts to

The Nobel Peace Prize to Aung San Suu Kyi will not be withdrawn in the light of a United Nations report that said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings of Muslim Rohingya, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Wednesday (Aug 29). On Monday, UN investigators said

Myanmar has rejected a UN report which called for top Burmese military figures to be investigated for genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority. Government spokesman Zaw Htay said the country didn't agree with or accept "any resolutions made by the Human Rights Council".

British fishermen were calling for military help after their French rivals allegedly petrol-bombed a trawler in a battle over scallops. Tempers have flared between the two groups over claims UK vessels are 'pillaging' the shellfish from international waters. Now British

China on Tuesday (Aug 28) said that putting pressure is not helpful in resolving the Rohingya issue of Myanmar after United Nations investigators said Myanmar's military had carried out mass killings of members of the minority. A UN report issued on Monday (August 27) marked the

The United Nations has accused the Saudi-UAE military alliance of committing possible war crimes in Yemen, adding there was "little evidence of any attempt ... to minimise civilian casualties." In a damning report on Tuesday, the UN said air attacks had caused the most direct civilian

Malcolm Turnbull has said he will quit Australia's parliament on Friday following his ouster as prime minister by party rivals, local media report. Mr Turnbull was replaced by Scott Morrison last week in a bid to end infighting that had crippled the centre-right government. The

Facebook banned the army chief of Myanmar and removed other pages tied to the country's military on Monday (August 27). The move came after a UN probe called for him to be prosecuted for genocide over a crackdown on Rohingya Muslims, reports the times of India. "We are banning

A UN report has said top military figures in Myanmar must be investigated for genocide in Rakhine state and crimes against humanity in other areas. The report, based on hundreds of interviews, is the strongest condemnation from the UN so far of violence against the Rohingya. The

The pilot of the US-Bangla plane that crashed at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport in March, killing 51 people, appears to have lied to the control tower during the landing procedure and was smoking continuously inside the cockpit during the one-hour flight from Dhaka to

A Myanmar court on Monday (Aug 27) postponed ruling on whether two Reuters journalists violated a state secrets law while reporting on the Rohingya crisis, a judge said, with a new date set for next week. “The verdict will be announced on Sept 3,” said district judge Khin Maung

Two people were killed and 11 others injured when a gunman opened fire on Sunday (August 26) at a popular waterfront mall in Jacksonville, Florida, where a video game tournament was being held. Graphic recordings from the scene captured gunshots ringing out and the screams of terrified