The refugee crisis engulfing Myanmar and neighboring Bangladesh is far larger than previously believed, according to the latest data released by UN agencies on Friday in Geneva. An estimated 270,000 million Rohingya Muslims have fled the deadly violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and have arri
Britain flew additional aid supplies to the Caribbean on Friday after Hurricane Irma flattened homes and schools and flooded hospitals, causing the British Virgin Islands to declare a state of emergency. The governor of the islands, Gus Jaspert, said in a message to the archipelago, whose 28,000 inh
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would discuss trade and military issues with the emir of Kuwait at the White House on Thursday, as well as tensions over Qatar. Trump, welcoming Kuwait’s Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah to the White House, said Kuwait was helping the United States in the G
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he and congressional leaders had discussed the possibility of jettisoning a long-standing cap on US government debt, saying it is not really needed. Trump met at the White House with congressional leaders from both parties and overruled Republicans and
NATO said it will be keeping a close eye on a major military exercise with Belarus next week, in a region still on edge after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. NATO and the US have powerful airborne radars deployed in drones that they can use to track the movement of tanks, trucks and oth
German consulates in the United States have seen a significant rise in requests for citizenship since November 2016, data collected by the German foreign ministry shows. Total citizenship applications – including those filed by US citizens already living in Germany – are reported yearly,
Social media network Facebook said on Wednesday it had found that an operation probably run from Russia spent $100,000 on thousands of US ads promoting divisive social and political messages in a two-year-period through May. Facebook said 3,000 ads and 470 “inauthentic” accounts and page
European Union’s security chief Julian King warned on Thursday that there is a “real risk” of increased funding for attacks in Europe as ISIS loses ground in the Middle East. “As we have success against ISIS on the ground in Iraq and Syria, they are moving funds out of Iraq and Syr
Residents in parts of the Miami metro area are under mandatory orders to leave their homes Thursday morning as Hurricane Irma barrels toward the region after killing several people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and causing devastation on other islands as one of the most powerful Atlantic s
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called on Thursday for the world to put the “greatest possible pressure” on North Korea to abandon its nuclear missile program. “The international community must unite in applying the greatest possible pressure on North Korea,” he said just
Turkish police shot dead on Wednesday an ISIS militant who was preparing to stage an attack on a police station in southern Turkey, the interior ministry said. The assailant, wearing a vest packed with explosives, was killed outside the police station in the Yenisehir district, which security source
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday voiced his concern about violencetaking place in Rakhine state in Myanmar, calling on authorities to take steps to provide Muslim Rohingyas there with “a normal life.” Nearly 150,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed the border to Bangladesh in less than
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Myanmar authorities on Tuesday to end violence in the country’s Rakhine state, which he warned was “creating a situation that can destabilize the region.” Guterres told reporters he had written to the UN Security Council
South African opposition parties petitioned the country’s highest court on Tuesday in a fresh bid to impeach President Jacob Zuma, who is battling multiple legal cases and corruption allegations. According to AFP, The opposition asked the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg to order parliamen
North Korea announced on Tuesday that it has “more gift packages” in store for the United States as the uproar over its test of a hydrogen bomb continued to ripple. Han Tae Song, ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the UN in Geneva, said: “The recent self-defense measur
Over 600,000 people are suffering from cholera in Yemen, announced the World Health Organization and Yemeni health ministry on Tuesday. They revealed that the outbreak has infected 612,703 people and killed 2,048 since it began in April, and some districts are still reporting sharp rises in new case
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday that violence against the country’s Rohingya Muslims was a violation of human rights. He told Suu Kyi in a telephone call that the violence was a deep concern to the Muslim world, adding that he will send his
Hyundai Motor Co said it had banned production at one of its factories in China Tuesday after a supplier refused to supply parts due to delays in payment. This is its second such incident in weeks. Hyundai has seen in China sales slump as a result of the diplomatic tensions between the two nations,
French President Emmanuel Macron met on Monday with Venezuela opposition leaders in an effort to tackle the South American country’s dire humanitarian situation in wake of its ongoing political crisis. Julio Borges, president of the National Assembly, and Freddy Guevara, the legislature’s firs
The euro extended gains on Tuesday on growing expectations that any concerns the European Central Bank flags about its strengthening at a meeting this week will have a limited impact. “Any attempt to jawbone the currency lower by the ECB will be limited in its impact as the broader market expects po
