More than 500,000 Rohingyas from Myanmar were jointly registered by the Bangladesh authorities and UNHCR as of Wednesday, the UN Refugee Agency said. For most of these Rohingyas, it is the first time they have a proof of their identity, a secure identity card. The biometric, fraud-proof cards are being…

Eight people accused of helping fund ethnic Rakhine rebels, including several deported from Singapore, were formally charged under counter-terrorism laws in a Myanmar court yesterday. Myanmar's military has been locked in battle for months with the Arakan Army (AA) in crisis-hit northern Rakhine…

US immigration officials say they have temporarily released about 300 people who were arrested in a massive raid in Mississippi on Wednesday. Democrats and rights groups have condemned the arrests as "cruel". Nearly 700 workers from seven agricultural processing plants were arrested for allegedly…

A ‘criminal’ was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Katakhali in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Chinu Mia, 38, son of Nurul Islam. He  was wanted in 19  cases. AKM Mehedi Hasan, officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj Police…

Two hundred survivors and relatives of victims of March's massacres at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, are undertaking the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia to "pray for the martyrs". "I want the world to know who Atta Elayyan was," said 27-year-old Farah Talal, dressed…