(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The European Union has finally admitted that the plight of the oppressed Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar likely constitutes ethnic cleansing.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Nearly 20 percent of high school and university students in Indonesia support the establishment of a caliphate in the world's largest Muslim-majority country over the current secular government, a new survey showed this week.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The threat of cholera is like a "ticking bomb" for Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya refugees who have flooded into Bangladesh, the head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) says.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won pledges from Japan of help with fighting terrorism and assistance in building the country's crumbling infrastructure, as he met with Japan's prime minister on Monday during a visit to the country.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar's government began harvesting rice from farmland abandoned by Rohingya in northern Rakhine on Saturday, officials said, a move likely to raise concerns about the prospect of return for more than half a million refugees who have fled communal violence in the area.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar and Bangladesh on Tuesday agreed to cooperate on the repatriation of Rohingya refugees and took steps to boost border security as relations between the neighbors have been strained by the continuing flow of refugees into Bangladesh.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Cooperation of Iran, Turkey and Iraq has foiled US sinister plot to create a new crisis in the Middle East, Head of Iran-Vietnam parliamentary friendship group said.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Philippines' five-month battle with ISIS-linked militants in the southern city of Marawi has ended, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana announced on Monday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - More than 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh since violence erupted in northern Rakhine in August, said a UN report.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Sexual predators and human traffickers are flocking to Rohingya refugee camps on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border looking to exploit vulnerable women and children of the suppressed Muslim minority, aide groups have warned.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is blaming the Myanmar military for the humanitarian crisis that has caused more than a half-million refugees to flee the country. Lawmakers are urging “meaningful steps” be taken against military leaders.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Amnesty International says Myanmar security forces killed at least hundreds of people during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Philippines city of Marawi has been liberated from ISIS-affiliated militants following a five-month standoff, President Rodrigo Duterte announced Tuesday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Two of the men responsible for the capture of the Philippine city of Marawi have been killed in clashes with armed forces.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Malaysia on Monday rolled out the red carpet for Qatar's emir, who is on his first trip to Southeast Asia four months after a diplomatic crisis erupted between his nation and four Arab countries.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Nearly 14,000 children who have lost one or both parents are among the more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who crossed in Bangladesh to escape violence in Myanmar, an official said Sunday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Kofi Annan has urged the UN Security Council to push Myanmar to accept the return of half-a-million Muslim Rohingas sheltering in Bangladesh. The former UN chief said otherwise a “festering problem” would remain.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The senior sunni Iranian cleric Molavi Abdolhamid described the crimes committed against the Rohingya Muslim community in Myanmar as 'shocking and intolerable'.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Authorities in Beijing have shut down a well-known Islamic bookstore and publishing house and detained its founder on "terrorism" charges amid a nationwide security operation ahead of the ruling Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly congress this month.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh, the United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives Tuesday.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A senior United Nations human rights official called on Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday to stop the violence and discrimination against the Muslim Rohingya minority.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pope Francis is set to visit Myanmar in November as the Buddhist country's military is widely blamed for committing ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslim minority.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - At least 12 Rohingya refugees, mostly children, drowned when their boat capsized on the way to Bangladesh, police said on Monday, the latest victims of violence in Myanmar that has forced more than half a million people from their homes.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Winners of a competition titled “Ashura Through Art” were honored in a ceremony at the Iranian Cultural Center in Manila, the Philippines.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Canberra's Islamic community finally has a new place of worship, 17 years after plans were first made.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) is looking to back a push by Japanese firms planning to invest in Malaysia’s Sharia-compliant halal market, an SMBC official said.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A UK charity has warned that about 145,000 Rohingya refugee children pouring into Bangladesh to stay safe from a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar government are now at risk of severe malnutrition.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A former Malaysian ambassador has hit out at the recent arrests of more than 200 Iraqi Shia Muslims, saying this could court condemnation from the United Nations Human Rights Commission.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) - More than 200 Iraqi nationals were arrested in Selangor recently for taking part in Ashura mourning.
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(AhlulBayt News Agency) -Followers of AhlulBayt (a.s.) observed a mourning ceremony on the occasion of Imam Hussain's martyrdom anniversary in Bangkok, Thailand.
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