Three unions under Ukhia upazila and Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar district -- areas inhabited by Rohingya refugees from Myanmar -- have been declared red zones to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

A Rohingya man has died from Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia upazila.

An Argentine court has moved one step closer to opening a historic investigation against Myanmar’s military and civilian leadership over genocide against the Rohingya people, the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK) says.

Stormy weather thwarted a landmark moment for private rocket company SpaceX and NASA, forcing launch directors in Florida to postpone what would have been the first flight of US astronauts into orbit from American soil in nine years.

Myanmar authorities claimed to have submitted a compliance report to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Turkey-based Anadolu Agency reports.

The flight data recorder from the Pakistani airliner that crashed into a residential neighbourhood of Karachi has been found, an official said on Saturday, as the death toll rose to 97.

Three more Rohingya refugees tested positive for Covid-19 in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar today.

Eighteen more people, including a Rohingya refugee from Ukhia, have tested positive for Covid-19 in tests conducted at Cox’s Bazar Govt Medical College.

Twenty-four people, including a Rohingya refugee, tested positive for Covid-19 today in Cox’s Bazar. The latest positive case of a Rohingya refugee contracting the virus is increasingly worrying for the 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in 34 camps in Teknaf and Ukhia upazilas of Cox’s Bazar.

Three more Rohingya refugees have tested positive for Covid-19 at Ukhia refugee camp a day after the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the camp.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), today extended its tripartite deal with Myanmar for improving conditions in Rakhine state for Rohingyas to return and live with other communities.

Thousands of migrants stranded “all over the world” are facing a heightened risk of Covid-19 infection, says António Vitorino, director general of International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency.

Philippine regulators today shut down the country's largest media company and a frequent target of President Rodrigo Duterte's tirades, a day after its 25-year congressional franchise expired.

Bangladesh has sent a small group of Rohingyas, who entered the country a couple of days ago from Myanmar in small boats, to Bhashan Char island.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on governments to systematically include migrants, irrespective of legal status, in their programmes and policies aiming to address the Covid-19 pandemic.

UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has called upon the United Nations to step up its efforts to protect civilians in Rakhine and Chin states of Myanmar, alleging ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by the Myanmar military there.

Pushing hundreds of starving and persecuted Rohingya refugees back out to the sea in the full knowledge that they have no safe place of refuge elsewhere are fundamental violations of their human rights, says Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya survivors and activists.

The Pentagon has officially released three short grainy videos showing "unidentified aerial phenomena", report several media including CNN and The Guardian.

The Bangladesh government should immediately allow the Rohingya refugees stranded on board two trawlers in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore and receive necessary food, water, and health care, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.

The UN Refugee Agency warned of life-threatening consequences if annual monsoon preparations cannot be completed on time in Bangladesh amid the global outbreak of Covid-19.