The Myanmar military leadership, including its commander-in-chief and five top generals, must be investigated and prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes over its actions against the Rohingyas, a UN fact-finding mission said.

Facebook yesterday banned Myanmar's army chief and other top military brass after a UN investigation recommended they face prosecution for genocide for a crackdown on Rohingya Muslims.

The report run by a Nepalese newspaper over the investigation findings on the US-Bangla plane crash led by their government is 'false' and 'baseless', says Captain Salahuddin M Rahmatullah, head of Aircraft Accident Investigation Group of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

An independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar formed by the UN Human Rights Council outlines in its report four key common characteristics of the operations of the armed forces of Myanmar in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States.

The United Nations (UN) and international community must ensure that the repatriation of displaced Rohingyas only occurs when it is safe, voluntary and dignified, with explicit human rights protections in place, including citizenship, an independent fact-finding mission recommends.

Myanmar’s recently-formed commission of enquiry “will not and cannot provide a real avenue for accountability, even with some international involvement’’, according to a UN probe report on the atrocities” against the Rohingya community.

Myanmar’s military carries out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingyas in the country’s Rakhine State with “genocidal intent”, UN investigators say.

Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has not used her de facto position as the Head of Government to prevent the atrocities against the Rohingya community, according to the report of a fact-finding mission of the United Nations.

Australia has urged Myanmar to take action on human rights violations and welcomed the establishment of Myanmar's Commission of Enquiry, which needs to be provided with authority to respond comprehensively to abuses.

The verdict in Myanmar's prosecution of two Reuters reporters accused of breaching the country's Official Secrets Act is postponed until September 3 because the judge overseeing the case is in poor health, a court official says.

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early yesterday, killing two people and injuring more than 250, officials said.

The Rohingyas who moved to Bangladesh reached an important milestone on August 25, 2018. The first anniversary of the exodus from their homeland in Myanmar was observed with solemnity in Bangladesh, Myanmar, and everywhere that the Rohingya diaspora have now spread out to.

The United States will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the "abhorrent ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday.

The UN Fact-finding Mission on Myanmar draws up a non-exhaustive list of alleged perpetrators of atrocity crimes against the country’s Rohingya community, indicating priority subjects for investigation and prosecution under international law.

The United States will continue to hold accountable those responsible for what he described as the "abhorrent ethnic cleansing" of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.

Singapore has the fastest 4G network followed by South Korea and Australia in the Asia-pacific.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani reject resignations tendered a day earlier by three senior security officials, the government says.

One in two Rohingya children who fled to Bangladesh without their parents were orphaned by brutal violence, a new Save the Children study said yesterday.

The Rohingyas in Cox's Bazar's refugee camps yesterday recalled the horrors of killings, rapes and torching of their houses by the Myanmar military exactly a year ago.

Bangladesh has planned to begin the relocation process of the Rohingya refugees, who fled the brutal military crackdown in Myanmar last year, from all refugee camps to Bhashan Char from September.