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Exposed: Myanmar's Growing Scam Hubs Powered by Elon Musk's Starlink Despite Global Crackdowns
Scam compounds in Myanmar are thriving again, using Elon Musk's Starlink to power billion-pound fraud networks.
Pro-Palestine Protesters Planned To Spray Red Painted Bank Notes At the LSE: Met Police
The Met Police busted the Palestine Action Group's plan to disrupt the London Stock Exchange on Monday by arresting six pro-Palestine protesters across the UK.
Urgent funding is needed for humanitarians to provide life-saving assistance to the victims of Cyclone Mocha
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.
Myanmar erases 55 Rohingya Muslim villages 'to cover up crimes against humanity'
Bulldozers sent in to destroy homes of Muslims who were ethnically cleansed.
Can Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi be charged with crimes against humanity?
UN special rapporteur for Myanmar says the country's de facto leader could be tried for crimes against humanity or genocide.
Myanmar offers to take back all Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh
A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.
Extraordinary ancient 'spider with a tail' discovered in 100-million-year-old amber
Four tiny specimens of the new species have been found, measuring around 2.5 millimetres in body length.
Myanmar Rohingya crisis: Mass graves with corpses 'burned away by acid' unearthed
Soldiers systematically disfiguring murdered Rohingya villagers with acid to deny culpability in war crimes, says Human Rights Watch.
Petrol bomb hurled at Aung San Suu Kyi's home where she spent 15 years during junta rule
Myanmar's state counsellor and the de facto leader was not present in the Yangon house when the attack took place.
Duterte's advice to Suu Kyi: Ignore the 'noisy bunch' of human rights activists
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte feels "pity" about the situation Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi finds herself in regarding the Rohingya criticism.
Barbed wire fences and armed guards: First photos of Myanmar's Rohingya reception camps
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 army admits to killing 10 Rohingya Muslims in first admission of wrongdoing
The Myanmar military has admitted killing 10 Rohingya people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Inn Dinn village.
Will hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees ever go back home to Myanmar?
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.
Chinese tourist kills endangered bear with machine gun 'out of curiosity' in Myanmar
A shocking video emerged online showing an endangered bear being killed inside a cage in Myanmar. The man said he shot the bear after gaining permission from the government.
Reuters demands Myanmar release two journalists arrested for possessing 'important secret papers'
The reporters had been working on stories about Mynamar's military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has caused almost 650,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.
Rohingya rape survivors' harrowing stories of abuse at the hands of the Myanmar military.
Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.
Rohingya crisis: UN human rights chief 'cannot rule out genocide' in Rakhine state
Elements of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims seem to be present in crisis, human rights tsar tells UN council.
Poignant photos and stories of young Rohingya girls forced to marry so their families could eat
Child marriage is common at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where marrying off a young daughter means one less mouth to feed.
Pope Francis tells refugees in Bangladesh: The presence of God is called 'Rohingya'
Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.
Pope Francis urges Buddhists in Myanmar to tackle 'prejudice and hatred' amid Rohingya persecution
Pope's comments mark his first public denunciation of the military's "persecution" of Rohingya Muslims.
Pope Francis urges Myanmar's ethnic minorities to turn the other cheek
In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.
Solar power energising health aid for ailing Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
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.
The 100 most powerful images of the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis
The 100 most powerful images of the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis
Bangladesh and Myanmar sign deal to return Rohingya Muslims
Rohingya live in segregated conditions in the Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where they are regarded as stateless people and unwelcome migrants from Bangladesh.
Huddled masses: Haunting Rohingya refugee photos the world cannot ignore
Award-winning photojournalist Kevin Frayer has returned to Bangladesh to document the hardships faced by the refugees, 60% of whom are children.
Poignant portraits of Rohingya Muslim refugees injured while fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar
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.
'We are not to blame' says Myanmar's army report on Rohingya crisis
A report by the Myanmar army says it is not to blame for the Rohingya crisis as international pressure builds over what has been termed the genocide of the Muslim people.
Desperate Rohingya Muslims risk flimsy rafts or swim 2.5 miles from Myanmar to Bangladesh
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.
Aung San Suu Kyi and Bob Geldof: What they said on the Rohingya crisis
Irish singer and songwriter Bob Geldof protested after having to share the Freedom of the City of Dublin honour with Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi makes first visit to violence-hit Rakhine state amid ongoing Rohingya crisis
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been accused of "ethnic cleansing" by allowing the military to launch an offensive against the Rohingya Muslims.

