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China lays out a plan to resolve Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis in Myanmar
China called for a ceasefire in Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis that's displaced 600,000 and been characterized by the UN as "textbook ethnic cleansing."Myanmar does not consider the Rohingya...
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US State Department officials accuse Rex Tillerson of violating US law on...
A dozen US State Department officials accused Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating the US law on child soldiers.They allege Tillerson should not have excluded Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan...
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Brutal images show the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar that the US just called...
They've been called "the most persecuted minority in the world."Subjected to rape, killings, and the destruction of their villages, more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from...
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Pope Francis meets Myanmar's leadership but might not even bring up the word...
Pope Francis is in Myanmar, where the government stands accused of an ethnic cleansing campaign that's sent hundreds of thousands of Muslims fleeing for Bangladesh.The Pope called for "unity in...
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Pope calls for peace amid 'ethnic cleansing' in Myanmar but won't even speak...
Pope Francis called on Myanmar to embrace peace during accusations of the military ethnically cleansing the country of Rohingya Muslims.An estimated 625,000 Rohingya Muslims fled the mostly Buddhist...
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Satellite images show how large the Rohingya refugee camps have grown as...
More than 620,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in the last three months.There are now over 800,000 Rohingya living in two camps — Kutupalong and Balukhali — around Cox's Bazar...
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Myanmar blocks UN human rights investigators just before scheduled visit
GENEVA (Reuters) - Myanmar has told the U.N. independent investigator into human rights in the country that it will not cooperate with her or grant her access to the country for the rest of her tenure,...
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Myanmar invited to US-Thailand military exercise, despite accusations of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Myanmar military, which has been accused of ethnic cleansing against the country's Muslim Rohingya minority, has been invited back as an observer in a major multinational...
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Myanmar's president calls for rewrite of military-drafted constitution, fair...
Myanmar's president called for a reform to the country's military-drafted constitution and justice for recognized minorities as over half a million Muslims in the country's Rakhine state have been...
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Rohingya insurgents say they have no option but to fight Myanmar's...
Rohingya Muslim insurgents said on Sunday they have no option but to fight Myanma. The statement came two days after the insurgents, known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, wounded six Myanmar...
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Myanmar military finally admits it killed some captured Rohingya civilians
The Myanmar admitted that it killed 10 Rohingya civilians in September on Wednesday. The US ambassador to Mynamar said it was an important step that will hopefully bring more transparency to what the...
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Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to resettle 650,000 displaced Rohingya...
Bangladesh and Myanmar have agreed to complete the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a crackdown from Myanmar's army into Bangladesh last year.The UN has called Myanmar's...
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Why China sees Myanmar's Rohingya crisis as an opportunity
Myanmar's government has been embroiled in battle of rhetoric over its alleged ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, but unlike the west, China sees an opportunity amid the affair.For China, Myanmar's...
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Philippines Duterte tells Myanmar's leader human rights activists are 'just a...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte dismissed human rights activists as "just a noisey bunch" in a conversation with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose country is going through a crisis with...
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UN says Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims has the 'hallmarks of genocide'
The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar said Thursday that the Myanmar military's violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear "the hallmarks of a genocide."Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have...
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Confidential UN report says North Korea earned $200 million from banned...
A confidential report reveals that North Korea violated UN sanctions and earned almost $200 million fom banned commodity exports.North Korea is also believed to have supplied weapons to Syria and...
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The US is going to participate in military drills with Myanmar after accusing...
Lawmakers are demanding Myanmar's exclusion from US-led military exercises in neighboring Thailand next week amid pressure for more American sanctions in response to atrocities against Rohingya...
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Myanmar bulldozes Rohingya villages in possible attempt to hide evidence of...
First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to literally erase the Rohingya Muslims from the earth.Rights groups say Myanmar is destroying crucial...
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UN says Myanmar likely carried out 'acts of genocide' against Rohingya Muslims
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights chief said on Wednesday that he strongly suspected that "acts of genocide" may have taken place against Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar's northern Rakhine...
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US Holocaust museum revoked top humanitarian award to Aung San Suu Kyi over...
The US Holocaust museum in Washington revoked a top humanitarian award to Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi.The museum said the decision was based on Suu Kyi's failure to condemn and stop military...
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