A man from Bangladesh who wanted to hijack a plane on Sunday had a toy gun with him. That is what the police report in Bangladesh. He did not have real weapons or explosives.
A Boeing 737 with 142 passengers on board has returned to the airport of Chittagong city in Bangladesh. A passenger would have tried to hijack the plane. The man behaved...
In the case of violent skirmishes in the parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, at least twelve people were killed.
The repatriation of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar does not start as scheduled on Thursday, two sources say Wednesday to Reuters news agency.
Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court ICC is conducting a preliminary investigation into the violence against the Rohingya. Hundreds of thousands of members of that Muslim minority have fled to neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar.
The American authorities are going to prosecute a suspected North Korean hacker. This Park Jin Hyok is associated with cyber attacks on Sony Pictures and the central bank of Bangladesh. He would also be behind the distribution of hostage software Wannacry.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) also deals with the issue of the Rohingya from Myanmar. This has determined magistrates of the international court. This allows research into the alleged persecution and deportation to Bangladesh of the Islamic Rohingya.
The United Nations is alarming the fate of half a million minor Rohingy refugees in Bangladesh. They live in crowded camps, have no access to good education and do not know when to return safely to their homeland Myanmar.
The United States has issued new sanctions against four Myanmar soldiers and two infantry divisions of the Asian country army. According to Washington, they are guilty of violating human rights against the Muslim population of Rohingya.
Spanish football can be viewed free of charge via Facebook on the Indian subcontinent from Friday. LaLiga and Facebook have signed a contract for this. All 380 LaLiga matches are available this season for free for viewers in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
A British hostage who was arrested after the massacre in a restaurant in Dhaka, will be released after two years. The Bangladesh authorities have concluded that Hasnat Karim had nothing to do with the drama in the Holey Artisan Bakery, where 22 people were killed in a hostage drama.
Dozens of students have been injured in protests in Bangladesh. The students have been protesting for seven days because of the poor road safety in the country. The immediate cause was the death of two students; they were hit by a speeding bus last week.
At least eight migrants, including six children, were stuck in Libya in a container. Another ninety other people who have been removed from the container are in critical condition. They have been transferred to a hospital, local authorities say.
Members of the Muslim Rohingya minority continue to flee Myanmar. Said Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that more than 11,000 Rohingya had migrated to Bangladesh since the beginning of this year.
After the wave of violence that erupted against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar last year, a baby boom is now expected in the refugee camps just across the border in Bangladesh.
A rebel movement of the harassed Muslim population in western Myanmar, the ARSA (Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army), has been guilty of mass murders. The human rights organization Amnesty International has reported that new evidence makes clear that Rohingya fighters last year certainly made one slaughter among men, women and children who were Hindu.
In a food distribution in Bangladesh, at least nine deaths occurred. Approximately 40 people were injured, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports.
At least ten women were killed in a charity campaign in Bangladesh. The owner of a steel factory distributed clothing, resulting in chaos.
After a failed first launch attempt, it was still possible to get a new type of the Falcon 9 rocket into space.
The American space company SpaceX has the first commercial cargo ever delayed the launch of the Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket would have to bring a satellite for the government of Bangladesh into orbit around the earth.
A court in Bangladesh sentenced two men to death for the murder of a professor just over two years ago. Three others got a lifetime.
In the Malinese city of Timbuktu, loud explosions have been heard at a UN base where a blue helmet was killed last week and several people were injured after an attack by Muslim extremists.
Myanmar has repatriated on Saturday the first five of the almost 700,000 Rohingya refugees who stayed in camps in Bangladesh. Last week, a senior UN official said that conditions in Myanmar were not favorable for repatriation.
In an attack on a base of French and UN forces in Timbuktu, a blue helmet was killed on Saturday. The attackers fired dozens of mortar grenades on the base and detonated two cars with explosives. They were close to approaching because they disguised themselves as UN soldiers.
Certainly two blue helmets were killed in Mali by attacking a UN base at Adjelhoc, in the northeastern Kidal region. Ten others were injured. Nothing has yet been published about the nationality of the victims.
Tens of Rohingya refugees arrived by boat in Thailand on Sunday, where they were stranded after a storm. According to local authorities, it is the first time in more than a year that Rohingya is visiting Thailand. Human rights organizations fear that more will cross the dangerous crossing, because of crowded camps in Bangladesh.
The four UN soldiers who were killed by an explosion in Mali on Wednesday are from Bangladesh. Their four seriously injured colleagues also come from that Asian country, the United Nations said.
Three women who have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize have criticized the Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The Iranian Shirin Ebadi, Máiread Maguire from Northern Ireland and the Yemeni Tawakkul Karman demand an end to the human rights violations against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.
The European Union is taking steps to impose sanctions against Myanmar because of the continuing murders and rapes by security forces in the state of Rohingya. EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs will commission Monday in Brussels to prepare punitive measures against high-ranking military personnel who are guilty of human rights violations.
