About 18,000 Rohingya fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh last week, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim group, tries to escape the worst violence in northwestern Myanmar in the last five years.
Great Britain has asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council. About the escalating violence between the ethnic Muslim group Rohingya and the security forces in Myanmar. The session should take place on wednesday.
Sohel Rana, the owner of the Bengal textile factory that collapsed in 2013, was convicted of corruption for three years in prison on Tuesday.
Since the opening of last week's Wednesday of giro 6868 for victims of the floods in South Asia, 55,000 euros have been collected.
At least 59 insurgents and 12 members of security forces were killed in Myanmar on Friday when rebels in the state of Rakhine attacked thirty police stations and a military base.
Deaths due to floods due to severe monsoon rains in India, Bangladesh and Nepal have risen to over 1200 in recent days. The authorities in these countries said on Friday. According to the Red Cross, almost 41 million people were affected by the monsoon season, which is extremely severe this year. The relief organization fears that the situation is deteriorating even further, as the rain showers continue.
The Red Cross calls on the Dutch to help map the floods affected Nepal, Bangladesh and India. According to the aid organization, in some cases, care providers do not know where affected villages are located or how they can come to bring goods. The Red Cross has therefore decided to ask for help.
The Malaysian police arrested about four hundred people during a large-scale anti-terrorist operation in the capital Kuala Lumpur. According to the authorities, the suspects are from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
The European Union is laying the groundwork for a ban on Libya people involved in the smuggling of human beings and the freezing of their European bank assets on Monday. Russia and China block such sanctions through the UN, reason for EU countries to prepare measures themselves.
At least 43 people have been killed in Bangladesh by landslides. According to local authorities, heavy rainfall caused large mudflows, causing homes to be buried and tens of thousands of people missing. 'The death penalty is probably still going on,' said a police spokesman.
The Red Cross is working with man and power at work in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to help victims of the cyclone Mora. The relief organization reported Tuesday that the death toll in Sri Lanka has increased by natural violence to 177.
Pope Franciscus does not visit South Sudan this year. According to Italian media, the trip was delayed for safety reasons.
Two alleged Muslim extremists blamed themselves on Sunday when the police attacked a house in western Bangladesh. Two police officers were seriously injured, the local police chief told reporters.
Thousands of angry Bengals protested again in the capital Dhaka on Friday against the image of a Bengali variant of Lady Justitia, which stands before the Supreme Court in the city.
The number of people worldwide smoke decreases proportionally, but in 2015 there were still 933 million. Tobacco addiction that year was responsible for 6.4 million deaths. According to a large study, the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015, published in the journal The Lancet.
Symantec suspects that some large banks have become a victim of the same hacker collective that previously include Sony and hacked the central bank of Bangladesh. According to security experts are more than one hundred companies- mainly banks- since October last year under fire. The means suggest that it is the notorious Lazarus Group.
In a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar are four million methamphetamine pills were found. A monk is associated with the party drug representing a street value of at least 7.5 million.
The army and police in Myanmar have been guilty of mass murder and rape of Rohingya. Moreover, burned his village of the Muslim Rohingya. It is therefore very likely that there had been crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. That the United Nations Human Rights Council said Friday.
Police in Bangladesh on Friday two Islamist extremists killed in a firefight in Dhaka. One of the two was considered the prime suspect in hostage in a cafe in the Bangladeshi capital last July, in which twenty people were slain.
During fighting in the Central African Republic on Thursday killed again members of the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA). This time it was five peacekeepers from Bangladesh.
Textile workers in Bangladesh who went on strike for better pay, his massive layoffs. According to unions in the Asian country, which produces most of the clothing in the world after China, at least 3,000 people have been driven out of the lane. The authorities kept the fired 1,600.
Neighbors call it the 'potato woman 'and her grandson three starts crying when he sees his grandmother. Life is lonely painful for the woman whose body is covered with hundreds of tumors. But Hosineara Begum from Bangladesh did not always look so frightening.
The UN Office for Human Rights has called on the Government of Myanmar to allow independent observers to the state of Rakhine. The agency claims to receive daily reports of atrocities against Rohingya Muslims are not recognized as citizens by the authorities.
The global banking system SWIFT, which is used to settle international payments, is often the target of hacking attacks than was previously known. SWIFT warned banks in early November for more attacks, according to a letter which Reuters has seen.
The United Nations have to visit the Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged the northwest of the country. She must reassure citizens in the border area that they are safe, despite reports that soldiers have raped Rohingya Muslims, civilians killed and houses destroyed.
Hackers have 2 billion rubles (29 million euros) more away locks of accounts with the Russian Central Bank. Which on Friday announced the Central Bank of Russia, reports Reuters.
Myanmar's army is engaged in a 'collective punishment' of the Muslim minority in the west of the country, 'ethnic cleansing' as the ultimate goal. That accusation voiced strong UN official John McKissick Thursday told the BBC.
More than three thousand people have fled from Myanmar to China, due to fighting between the government and rebels. Among them are injured refugees. Stray shells are even cases across the border on Chinese soil, saying China.
Hundreds of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to stay out of the grip of the Burmese army. In recent days there has been heavy fighting between the army and Rohingya Muslims.
Fighting between the military and what the Myanmar government calls a militant Islamic group, have this weekend dozens of lives. The encounter took place in the Rakhine province in the northwest of the country.
