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The systematic persecution of minority Muslims is on the rise across Myanmar and not confined to the northwestern state of Rakhine, where recent violence has sent nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing, a Myanmar rights group says.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detain 50 Rohingyas for entering the country amid escalating tension in Myanmar's Rakhine state following an attack by insurgents.

Two blasts rock a Myanmar area near the Bangladeshi border, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and thick black smoke, as violence that has sent nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh shows no sign of easing.

A Rohingya woman’s body is recovered from the Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Indonesia's foreign minister is due to meet Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to discuss delivering humanitarian aid to members of Myanmar's Rohingya minority, as Indonesian protesters urged their government to take a tougher line.

Rohingya children and women are being massacred, burnt alive and are fleeing their homes as reports of renewed persecution against Rohingya Muslims living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar dominates international and local media.

More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government says, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.

Scores of Rohingya Muslim refugees offer Eid prayers in Bangladesh, many of them recent arrivals fleeing a surge in communal violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on his first-ever bilateral state visit to Myanmar from September 5-7, the Rohingya issue will figure in his talks with the Myanmar’s top leadership.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a reshuffle of his council of ministers on Sunday in the third such exercise since he assumed charge more than three years ago.

Bangladesh has lodged a “strong protest” with the Myanmar embassy in Dhaka as Myanmar helicopters violated Bangladesh’s airspace near Ukhia in Cox's Bazar where Rohingyas fleeing violence in Rakhine state took shelter.

A United Nations human rights expert has expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, affecting not just the Rakhine and Muslim populations but also other communities.

A Pakistan court brands former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial, but acquits five men accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination.

Rights body, Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) submits a memorandum to the office of Myanmar embassy in Dhaka, demanding that Myanmar government immediately stop repression on Rohingyas and bring them back from Bangladesh to that country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the United States to put pressure on Myanmar to stop pushing-in Rohingya nationals to Bangladesh as US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice Wells pays a courtesy call on the premier at her office in Dhaka.

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About 18,000 Rohingya Muslims are estimated to have crossed into Bangladesh in the last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says, seeking to escape the worst violence in Myanmar's northwest in at least five years.

Two toddlers were among at least six people who died after floods caused by heavy seasonal monsoon rains destroyed homes and disrupted traffic in India’s financial capital, police say.

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