Mohammad Akhter Hossain, a young Rohingya man, was sitting in front of a shanty in a sprawling refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, a district in southern Bangladesh.   He stared out aimlessly, his eyes searching for what remains an unknown future. Hossain, 32, was soon whisked away...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said that his administration was working with Pakistan in a "very positive way" in the fight against terrorism. Addressing more than 100,000 people at a stadium in Ahmedabad, capital of India’s western province of Gujarat, Trump said: “The United States...

UN chief Antonio Guterres launched a "call to action" on Monday against rising attacks on human rights, highlighting the persecution of minorities and "alarming levels of femicide". "Human rights are under assault," said the secretary-general as he opened the UN Human Rights Council's main...

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has submited his resignation to the king, his office said Monday.  Speculations are rife over what led to the resignation with local media reporting two different scenarios. Malaysiakini, an online news portal, quoted an unnamed source...