Canada, Britain and main EU countries join Myanmar genocide case

November 17, 2023

Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Britain have teamed up to join the genocide case over Myanmar’s treatment of the Muslim Rohingya minority before the United Nation’s top court in The Hague, the court said on Thursday evening, Reuters reports. The countries filed a joint declaration of intervention with the court, formally known as […]Continue Reading

Third batch of around 250 Rohingya arrive in Indonesia

November 16, 2023

About 250 desperate Rohingya refugees reached western Indonesia on a decrepit, overcrowded wooden boat on Thursday, bringing the total number reported by local officials to have arrived this week to nearly 600, AFP reports. The boat holding the members of the persecuted Myanmar minority, many barefoot and some pleading for help, sat just off the […]Continue Reading

Fear grows for patients inside Gaza hospital, cut off after Israelis arrive

November 16, 2023

Palestinian medics said on Thursday they are increasingly afraid for the lives of hundreds of patients and medical staff at Gaza’s biggest hospital, cut off from all links to the outside world for more than a day after Israeli forces entered, Reuters reports. Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli soldiers had removed dead bodies from the […]Continue Reading

Turkey’s Erdogan labels Israel a ‘terror state’, slams its backers in West

November 15, 2023

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday Israel was a “terror state” committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza, sharpening his repeated criticism of Israeli leaders and their backers in the West, Reuters reports. Speaking two days before a planned visit to Germany to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Erdogan said Israel’s military Continue Reading

Bombarded twice in Gaza, 4-year-old Ahmed loses parents, then legs

November 15, 2023

The boy keeps asking for his parents, and he wants to get up and walk, but his parents are dead and his legs have been amputated, Reuters reports. That is the plight of Ahmed Shabat, a four-year-old boy whose parents were killed when their home in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northeastern corner […]Continue Reading

Commander of PCJSS armed wing arrested in Rangamati

November 14, 2023

STAFF REPORTER, RANGAMATI Security forces have arrested Shantimoy Chakma, a company commander of the armed group of the Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS) in Rangamati.  He was apprehended on Monday evening (13 November) from the K.K. Roy Road in the hill district town. It is known that the arrested Shantimoy Chakma hails from Sarowatali […]Continue Reading

Myanmar border clash echoes in Bandarban: residents hear explosions

November 14, 2023

GHUMDHUM CORRESPONDENT After a nine-month lull, the border area near Tumbru border at Ghumdhum in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari is once again witnessing signs of unrest, with sounds of mortar shell explosions emanating from inside Myanmar. Around 2 PM on Monday, locals reported hearing loud noises suggestive of heavy artillery, reigniting concerns in the border community. Continue Reading

Amdassador: EU sustaining its support to Rohingya crisis

November 13, 2023

NEWS DESK The visiting delegation of the European Union (EU) on Monday exchanged views with the Rohingyas in the camps and assured them of their continued support. “Intense program in Bangladesh for Deputy Managing Director for Asia and the Pacific at the European External Action Service (EEAS) Paola Pampaloni with a visit on Monday to […]Continue Reading

Russian naval ships at Bangladeshi port after 50 years

November 12, 2023

A Russian naval group has called at the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh for the first time in almost half a century, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene, TASS reports. The Pacific Fleet’s naval group comprises the large anti-submarine warfare ships Admiral Tributs and Admiral Panteleyev and the oceanic tanker Pechenga. The combat ships […]Continue Reading

Iran President Raisi says action, not words, needed on Gaza

November 11, 2023

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the time had come for action over the conflict in Gaza rather than talk as he headed to Saudi Arabia to attend a summit on the war between Israel and Hamas militants, Reuters reports. “Gaza is not an arena for words. It should be for action,” Raisi […]Continue Reading