UN Human Rights body warned the authorities of Myanmar over the issue of two-children limit on Rohingya...
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The army transported terrified Muslim families by the truckload out of a neighborhood in Lashio where overturned...
Local officials said the new measure was part of a policy that will also ban polygamyin two...
A group named Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh (HIB) has set 13 demands for the government to fulfill to help...
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, which has previously warned of a "humanitarian catastrophe", said some 70,000 people...
Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif looked set Sunday, May 12, to return to power for a...
At least eight people died in a garment factory fire in the capital late Wednesday. The fire...
The Dalai Lama, a foremost Buddhist leader, told an audience at the University of Maryland at the...
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 59, was found guilty on charges of genocide and torture of unarmed civilians during the...
Bangladesh's Hefazaat-e-Islam has recently been thrust onto the centre-stage of national politics by an extraordinary set of...