French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said attacks on Myanmar's Rohingya minority amounted to "genocide. France will work with other members of the U.N. Security Council for a condemnation of "this genocide which is unfolding, this ethnic cleansing," Macron said in an interview with the ...
The Bangladeshi prime minister demanded Tuesday that Myanmar allow the return of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled recent violence in the Buddhist-majority nation — a crisis she said left her speechless. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Bangladesh would offer the refugees temporary ...
Bangladesh has agreed to free land for a new camp to shelter some of the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled recent violence in Myanmar, an official said Monday. The new camp will help relieve some pressure on existing settlements in the ...
Bangladesh's foreign minister said Sunday that genocide was being waged in Myanmar's violence-racked Rakhine state, triggering an exodus of nearly 300,000 Muslim Rohingya to his country. "The international community is saying it is a genocide. We also say it is a genocide," A.H. Mahmood Ali ...
Thousands of people uprooted by violence in Central African Republic are taking refuge in a hospital after armed groups looted and burned a camp for the displaced, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. At least 10,000 people are staying on the grounds ...
Iraq's Yazidis marked three years Thursday since Islamic State launched what the United Nations said was a genocidal campaign against them, but their ordeal is far from over despite the ouster of the jihadi fighters. Militants were driven out of the last part of the ...
A network of leading science institutes in Germany will begin identifying thousands of brain specimens belonging to people killed by the Nazis because they suffered from a disability or were ill. The three-year-long research project into the human remains in the Max Planck institutes' possession ...
Namibia's Herero people are heartened that Germany is keen to atone for the genocide of their ancestors, but they expect something that Berlin says it cannot give. "What we want is our land," said Alex Kaubtauuapela, 74, whose parents survived the extermination of 80 percent ...
A Cambodian Supreme Court chamber on Wednesday upheld a life sentence for two top cadres of the 1970s Khmer Rouge found guilty of crimes against humanity, a decision a U.N. envoy said sent a message to leaders in North Korea and elsewhere. Most of the ...
The United States circulated on Thursday to the 15-member United Nations Security Council a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions amid warnings by a senior U.N. official of possible genocide. Political rivalry between South Sudan's President Salva ...
President Francois Hollande acknowledged Saturday France's "broad responsibility" for the internment of thousands of Roma by the World War II Vichy regime and in the early months of the postwar government. "The day has come, and this truth must be told," Hollande said on the ...
Peering through binoculars, a young man watched as Islamic State extremists gunned down handcuffed men and then buried them with a waiting bulldozer. For six days he watched as IS filled one grave after another with his friends and neighbors. The five graves at the ...
