Heavy shelling from Burma along the Bandarban border district of Bangladesh has forced hundreds of families to flee for safety. Bullets from Burma again landed inside Bangladesh’s Lemuchhari and Bahirmath areas Saturday violating the border, according to fleeing locals. The shelling occurred in a roughly 12-mile area near the border in Burmese...
On Sunday, thousands of Palestinians bid farewell to two men killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank. Mourners participated in the funeral procession for 32-year-old Rabi Arafah Rabi in the city of Qalqilya, Anadolu Agency reports. Rabi died Saturday from wounds sustained from an Israeli bullet to the head at a military checkpoint, [&...
PARIS (AA) – Tears of the Seine, an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally. The film has won a bronze medal at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles. It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on Oct. 17, 1961, in which hundreds of […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s president urged the European Union on Thursday to speed up shipments of air defense systems, noting that nearly a third of the country’s power stations have been destroyed in Russian attacks. In a video address to an EU leaders meeting in Brussels, Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed the latest developments regar...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh on Thursday said Myanmar has agreed to take back the Rohingya refugees under a bilateral agreement signed in November 2017. “The good news is that the current Myanmar government has agreed to take back Rohingya citizens, and is developing facilities in the Rakhine State,” Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The Bangladesh police arrested four people on Tuesday on charges of killing two Rohingya leaders in a refugee camp. The Armed Police Battalion (APBN) said in a statement that the four people arrested are also Rohingya refugees, but from different camps in the southern district of Cox’s Bazaar. Bangladesh is currently [...
Doha, Qatar (AFP): FIFA’s president has sought to overcome lingering doubts about Qatar’s rights record ahead of the World Cup as the global body confirmed it is negotiating a fund for migrant workers who died or were injured. Gianni Infantino said “Qatar has delivered amazing” results with the multi-billion dollar stad...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union has sanctioned 11 Iranian individuals and four entities, including the country’s Morality Police over their role in the death of Mahsa Amini and the violent response to the recent demonstrations. Iran’s Morality Police and two of its key figures Mohammad Rostami and Hajahmad Mirzaei, Iranian Law Enf...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Greece must stop its “harsh treatment” of refugees and “cease its baseless and false charges against Türkiye”, an official said on Sunday. “We urge Greece to abandon its harsh treatment of refugees . . . and to deliver the dignity of government,” Fahrettin Altun, Turkiye’s communications director, said on Twit...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A teenaged Palestinian detainee on Friday succumbed to his wounds in an Israeli hospital. In a statement, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said Mohammad Ghawadra, 17, from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, underwent an opera...
