The United Nation secretary-general’s special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener on Myanmar is preparing to visit that country next month. She said this while paying a courtesy call Bangladesh’s permanent representative to UN ambassador Masud Bin Momen on Monday, according to a press release…

Amnesty International says in a new report that Myanmar's army was not the only group that has slaughtered civilians in the country's volatile west, reports UNB. It accused ethnic Rohingya insurgents of carrying out at least one brutal massacre when the long-running conflict in Rakhine state…

US President Donald Trump warned Tuesday his landmark summit with Kim Jong Un may be delayed, but insisted the North Korean leader is "serious" about denuclearization, reports AFP. Hosting South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House, Trump did little to quell speculation about the…

The death toll from an outbreak of the rare Nipah virus in southern India has risen to at least 10, officials said yesterday, with another 90 people quarantined to try to stem the spread of the disease, reports AFP from New Delhi. Authorities in Kerala state have ordered emergency measures to control…