Myanmar has brushed off a one-month unilateral ceasefire announced by a Rohingya militant group in Rakhine. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) announced a truce on Sunday (Sep 10), urging Myanmar's army to lay down weapons as well, reports the BBC. But government

At least eight people are dead, including the suspect, after a shooting at a home in Plano, Texas, authorities in North Texas said Sunday night (Sep 10). The shooting occurred around 8:00pm in the city less than 20 miles (32.19 kilometers) northeast of Dallas. Plano police spokesman

DHAKA: Myanmar finds itself increasingly isolated diplomatically as violence against the country's Muslim minority Rohingya spurs a humanitarian crisis, but an analyst said the country has found one prominent ally: India. CNBC, an American basic cable, internet and satellite

DHAKA: Forced out of their home country, Rohingya Muslims share their experiences of crossing to Bangladesh. Many women of the Rohingya refugees share experiences of giving birth on the way to the border. Al Jazeera, the state-funded news network of Qatar, reported on Sunday (September

DHAKA: Rohingya Muslim insurgents in Myanmar started a one-month unilateral ceasefire from Sunday (September 10) to ease the humanitarian crisis in northern Rakhine state, reports BBC. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) also urged Myanmar's army to lay down weapons as well.

DHAKA: Nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state into Bangladesh in the 15 days since new violence erupted and the United Nations is braced for a further surge, officials said. The exodus figure has jumped about 20,000 in a day and from 164,000 on Thursday.

DHAKA: At least 58 people died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the southern coast, reports CNN. The magnitude 8.1 quake, which was felt as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City, was registered off Mexico's southern coast just as heavy rains

DHAKA: At least 58 people died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the southern coast, reports CNN. The magnitude 8.1 quake, which was felt as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City, was registered off Mexico's southern coast just as heavy rains

DHAKA: At least 58 people died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Mexico in a century struck off the southern coast, reports CNN. The magnitude 8.1 quake, which was felt as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City, was registered off Mexico's southern coast just as heavy rains

DHAKA: An earthquake described by Mexico's president as the country's strongest in a century has struck off the southern coast, killing at least 33 people. The quake, which President Enrique Peña Nieto said measured 8.2, struck in the Pacific, about 87km (54 miles) south-west

DHAKA: India on Thursday (Sep 7) refused to sign a declaration adopted at an international conference as it carried a reference to violence in Rakhine state of Myanmar, from where 125,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh. An Indian parliamentary delegation, led by Speaker Lok Sabha

DHAKA: A deadly magnitude 8.1 earthquake-struck off of the southern coast of Mexico early Friday (September 8) — raising fears of a tsunami, reports New York Post. The US Geological Survey reported that the powerful temblor struck 20 miles under the Pacific near Mexico’s border

DHAKA: The Rohingya are the world's largest stateless community and one of its most persecuted minorities. The Times of India on Thursday (September 07) reported that more than 2,50,000 new refugees have since flooded into Bangladesh bringing with them harrowing stories of murder,

DHAKA: The Rohingya people, who have entered Bangladesh after fleeing from the violence in Rakhine State of Myanmar, will not be allowed back in without proof of citizenship, said the National Security Adviser (NSA) of Myanmar U Thaung Tun. The decision was made in a National Security

DHAKA: Hurricane Irma hammered a string of northeast Caribbean islands, thrashing them with rain and winds of up to 180 mph, and leaving at least nine people dead. The hurricane battered several islands, including Barbuda, St. Martin and the British Virgin Islands. Its howling winds

DHAKA: The de facto leader of Myanmar and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday (Sep 6) issued a statement on the current violence and Rohingya crisis of Rakhine state that has sparked worldwide criticism.   Suu Kyi blamed the “terrorists” for spreading “misinformation”

DHAKA: Officials in Florida's Key West and popular Caribbean tourist islands ordered people to evacuate on Tuesday (Sep 5) as Irma, a “potentially catastrophic” Category Five hurricane, was set to make landfall. The monster hurricane coming on the heels of Harvey, which struck

DHAKA: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Myanmar at a tricky time when the country and its de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi are increasingly coming under sharp international criticism due to the plight of Rohingya Muslims. Modi’s three-day visit is expected to cover a

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is “begging for war” with his latest and most powerful nuclear bomb test, the US envoy to the United Nations has said. Nikki Haley told an emergency meeting of the Security Council in New York that America did not want a war but its patience was

Two explosions, sound of gunfire and thick black smoke in a Myanmar area near the Bangladeshi border on Monday (Sep 4) have been reported in International media amid the ongoing violence in Rakhine state and intrusion of nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingyas to Bangladesh. Quoting locals,