(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pope Francis has arrived in Bangladesh from Myanmar, urging the international community to address the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the country.
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Myanmar’s army chief: No religious discrimination here
November 29, 2017 - 10:17 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar’s military chief has blatantly denied the heavily-documented cases of horrific violence against the Muslim Rohingya minority in the Southeast Asian country, telling visiting Pope Francis that “no religious discrimination” is taking place there.
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UN seeks report from Myanmar on rapes, deaths of Rohingya women
November 29, 2017 - 5:02 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A United Nations women’s rights panel called on Myanmar on Tuesday to report within six months on rapes and sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls by its security forces in northern Rakhine state and measures taken to punish soldiers.
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Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of Oxford award over Rohingya crisis
November 28, 2017 - 4:07 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Aung San Suu Kyi has been formally stripped of the Freedom of the City of Oxford award over her response to the repression of her country’s Rohingya Muslims.
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Iran, Bangladesh navy delegation discuss bilateral matters
November 28, 2017 - 1:48 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Iranian naval delegation, who is in Bangladesh to attend International Maritime Search and Rescue Exercise (IMMSAREX), met and talked with Bangladesh navy head in Dhaka.
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Rights groups: Myanmar wiping out witnesses to Rohingya repression
November 27, 2017 - 9:46 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Activists who reported Myanmar’s Rakhine state crackdown on Rohingya are being targeted by troops there, rights groups said.
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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Islamophobe of year
November 27, 2017 - 4:29 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi was announced the 2017 International Islamophobe of the Year on Sunday.
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Pope visits Myanmar in shadow of Rohingya crisis
November 27, 2017 - 4:08 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pope Francis arrived in Myanmar on Monday on a delicate visit for the leader of the Roman Catholic church to a majority-Buddhist country that the United States has accused of “ethnic cleansing” against its Muslim Rohingya people.
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Philippines presses for Shia-Sunni dialogue
November 26, 2017 - 11:12 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Jose Claveria De Venecia, the special envy of Philippine President Duterte for intercultural dialogue, is pushing for talks between Sunni and Shia Muslims, no matter how “difficult”, “slim” and “almost impossible” it may sound.
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Myanmar, Bangladesh sign deal to repatriate Rohingya Muslims
November 25, 2017 - 4:01 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Bangladesh and Myanmar have signed a deal for the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees, who have taken shelter in the border town of Cox's Bazar after a brutal crackdown by the military.
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Atrocities against Rohingya Muslims may be war crimes: UN envoy
November 23, 2017 - 3:24 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Widespread atrocities against Rohingya Muslim women and girls have been orchestrated and perpetrated by Burma's military and may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, the UN envoy on sexual violence in conflict has said.
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China proposed three-phase plan for Rohingya issue
November 21, 2017 - 8:54 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - China has proposed a three-phase plan for resolving the Rohingya crisis, starting with a ceasefire, that has won the support of Myanmar and Bangladesh, the Foreign Ministry said.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi blames world conflicts on illegal immigration
November 20, 2017 - 4:00 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has come under global scrutiny for backing an ethnic cleansing campaign against the country’s unwanted Muslim population, has blamed “illegal immigration” for conflicts and “spread of terrorism” across the world.
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EU's Mogherini visits Rohingya camps in Bangladesh
November 20, 2017 - 1:28 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - EU foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, visited Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh on Sunday before flying to Myanmar for a meeting on the crisis.
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China forces Huawei to deny phone alarm function favors Muslims
November 18, 2017 - 8:38 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Chinese tech giant Huawei has denied favouring Muslims with its phones equipped with alarms for prayers after it was "viciously attacked" by Chinese netizens, state media reported.
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HRW report accuses Burmese soldiers of atrocities
November 16, 2017 - 4:08 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Burmese soldiers have gang raped Rohingya women in continued violence against the Muslim minority in the Rakhine state, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
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Tillerson expresses concerns about credible reports of violence against Rohingya Muslims
November 15, 2017 - 4:38 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met with Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, expressing deep concerns about “credible reports” of government-sanctioned violence against Rohingya Muslims.
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Rohingya massacre: Accounts of rape, burning children and murder
November 14, 2017 - 9:35 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Discarded and left for dead, Mumtaz says she found herself on top of a mound of charred, entangled bodies.
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Chinese President offers condolences to Iran, Iraq over earthquake
November 14, 2017 - 5:54 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent condolences to his Iranian and Iraqi counterparts over a massive earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border area on Sunday, and pledged steadfast supports to the two nations at this hard time.
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North Korea says Trump begging for nuclear war
November 11, 2017 - 3:45 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - North Korea has claimed Donald Trump "begged for a nuclear war" on the Korean peninsula during his first tour of Asia.
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Arbaeen pilgrims participate in collection of aid for Rohingya refugees
November 6, 2017 - 10:01 PM(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Tents have been set up by the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) on the paths of Arbaeen pilgrims to collect aid for Rohingya Muslim refugees.
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EU admits Rohingya Muslims face ethnic cleansing
November 6, 2017 - 4:30 PM(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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20 percent of Indonesian students support Isis
November 3, 2017 - 8:39 PM(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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Cholera risk ticking bomb for Rohingya refugees
November 2, 2017 - 10:29 PM(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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Japan offers Philippines aid for rebuilding, fighting terrorism
October 30, 2017 - 6:10 PM(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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Myanmar starts harvesting farmland abandoned by Rohingya Muslims
October 28, 2017 - 4:43 PM(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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Myanmar, Bangladesh agree to halt outflow of Rohingya Muslims
October 25, 2017 - 3:46 PM(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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Iran, Turkey, Iraq cooperation foils US plot in region: Boroujerdi
October 25, 2017 - 11:45 AM(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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Philippines declares end of battle with ISIS in Marawi
October 23, 2017 - 5:29 PM(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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UN says over 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh
October 23, 2017 - 12:53 PM(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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