Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday sacked a minister who had threatened to split his coalition government, three weeks

More than 200,000 Rohingya children who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar are at incredible risk and they need urgent support, Unicef said today.

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has said a total of 370,000 Rohingyas have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state since August 25.

Describing the atrocities by Myanmar military as "acts against humanity and violation of human rights", Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Rohingya refugees are Myanmar nationals and it must take its citizens back.

The US ambassador to Afghanistan said on Monday Washington would never allow militants to use the country as a sanctuary, as American and allied troops in Kabul commemorated the September 11 attacks.

Pointing to the ashes of a destroyed village that was once home to dozens of Rohingya Muslim families, the abbot of a nearby Buddhist monastery insisted he knew who had set it ablaze. It was the Rohingya themselves, he said, and there was photographic evidence to prove it.

India comes under fire from the UN Human Rights Council over its threat to deport 40,000 Rohingyas.

Bangladesh Parliament unanimously adopts a resolution urging the United Nations and the international community to exert strong diplomatic pressure on Myanmar government to take back Rohingya people, ensure their safe accommodation and give citizenship rights.

Dhaka reiterates its call to the international community to help Bangladesh with urgent humanitarian assistances to address the current crisis and provide political support to ensure sustainable return of all Rohingya people to their homes in Myanmar.

The United Nations should press the Myanmar government to urgently allow aid to reach the ethnic Rohingya Muslims at risk in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, Human Rights Watch said today.

Blasting the atrocities on Rohingya people, National Human Rights Commission Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque says Myanmar’s persecution is tantamount to genocide.

The 7-year-old Rohingya boy lies on a tattered mattress on the floor of a crowded government hospital in Bangladesh, bandages covering the spot where a bullet fired by Myanmar troops tore through his chest a week earlier.

The United Nations has appealed for aid to deal with a humanitarian crisis unfolding in southern Bangladesh after the number of Muslim Rohingya fleeing Myanmar neared 300,000, just two weeks after violence erupted there.

Two secret tunnels and an illegal explosives factory are found inside the premises of the Dera Sacha Sauda headquarters near Haryana’s Sirsa town on day two of the search by security forces and authorities.

The United States has praised Bangladesh’s generosity in responding to this humanitarian crisis of Rohingyas who according to the latest numbers, nearly 300,000 have fled from persecution in Myanmar since August 25.

Last Tuesday, when we went to the Bangladesh-Myanmar border area to cover news of Rohingya refugees in Ghumdum of Ukhia, we came across a small border bazaar (local market) full of cattle. What amazed us were the price tags of the cows -- most of them were being sold at Tk 10,000 to Tk 15,000.

The Danish government has allocated Tk 256 million to United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) as relief efforts for the newly-arrived Rohingya refugees coming to Bangladesh from Myanmar.

Amid a dramatic increase in the number of refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state, UNHCR calls for urgent action to address the root causes of the recent surge in violence, so that people are no longer compelled to flee and can eventually return home in safety and dignity.

US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce has sent a letter to Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to express his great concern regarding violence against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine.

Two top US Senators -- Dick Durbin and John McCain – have introduced a resolution condemning the horrific acts of violence being committed against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar.