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A 19-year-old British woman has bravely spoken out about being sexually assaulted by 30 men during a chaotic New Year's Eve celebrations in Milan.

The high concentration of arsenic levels has been attributed to seasonal flooding and rising sea levels.

A new study has made some frightening revelations about the harmful impact of air pollution on people living in South Asian countries.

The UN request urgent funding for their life-saving assistance to the victims of Cyclone Mocha, which killed over 450 people, in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The appeal will also help support thousands of Rohingya people, after the storm destroyed refugee camps.

A new report released by UNICEF, the children's agency of the UN, says that South Asian countries have the highest number of child brides in the world.,

A 15-year-old boy from Bangladesh was playing hide and seek when he fell asleep in a shipping container and found himself in a new country six days later.

Two Islamist militants managed to escape from the premises of a crowded court in Dhaka on Sunday.

At least 25 people lost their lives after the boat they were travelling in overturned in a river near the town of Boda in Bangladesh on Sunday.

In a tragic incident reported from Bangladesh, a British family of five lost three members within the span of just one week.

At least 49 people were killed and more than 450 were injured after a fire broke out at a container depot in Sitakunda, Bangladesh.

At least six people lost their lives after a cargo vessel collided with a ferry carrying dozens of people on the Shitalakhsya River in central Bangladesh on Sunday.

The nation's president will issue the ordinance to address the country's high level of sexual violence and abuse against women.

A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.

Myanmar finally allowed the world's media in to Rakhine state to show they are ready to welcome back some of the Rohingya Muslims who fled the country.

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

The government has promised to find all the missing people amid concerns that the victims could be subjected to enforced detentions.

Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.

Child marriage is common at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where marrying off a young daughter means one less mouth to feed.

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.

UN Migration Agency IOM estimates nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have so far taken refuge in makeshift settlements in different parts of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar area.

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed Myanmar's security forces and "local vigilantes" for what he called "intolerable suffering" by the Rohingya.

Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer has returned to Bangladesh to document the hardships faced by the refugees, 60% of whom are children.

Rohingya Muslims who were injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar's northern Rakhine state showed their wounds to Reuters photographer Jorge Silva at refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

Zana Yusif has been jailed for 15 years after he killed vulnerable Bangladeshi grandfather Tarek Chowdhury, 64, in a cell at the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre in London.

Rohingya Muslims are so desperate to leave Myanmar they are willing to risk their lives by crossing a four-kilometre (2.5-mile) stretch of water on flimsy makeshift rafts or even swimming to Bangladesh.

A young Hindu man reportedly wrote a "blasphemous" post on Facebook, infuriating the Muslims in the area.

Shakib Khan had erroneously used Ijajul Mia's number in a film that led to him being flooded with calls from the actor's admiring female fans.

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