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The UN has drawn up a contingency plan to feed up to 700,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar after some 480,000 fled to Bangladesh over the past month and arrivals continue. A senior official from the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) told AFP they were now prepared to provide massive food and other emergency aid if the influx continues in ...

Bodies of 45 Hindus have been discovered in three mass graves in the Myanmar’s conflict-torn northern Rakhine state, the officials said blaming Muslim insurgents for the killings. Rakhine state has been in a turmoil since August 25 after Rohingya militants launched deadly attacks on police posts. Border Guard Police Maj. Zayar Nyein told Associated Press that two of the graves, ...

Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico with a one-two punch of high winds and driving rain before beginning its deliberate march toward the Dominican Republic. Early Thursday, the National Hurricane Center said the storm had regained “major hurricane status,” upgrading it to Category 3. The center said at 2 a.m. that Maria’s maximum sustained winds had risen to almost 115 miles ...

A magnitude-7.1 earthquake stunned central Mexico on Tuesday afternoon (local time), killing at least 138 people as buildings collapsed in plumes of dust. Thousands fled into the streets in panic, and many stayed to help rescue those trapped. Scores of buildings collapsed into mounds of rubble or were severely damaged in densely populated parts of Mexico City and nearby states. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU China has opened a highway in Tibet to the Nepal border, which is startegically important and could be used for civilian and defence purposes in future. The 40.4-kilometre highway in Tibet between Xigaze airport and Xigaze city centre officially opened to the public  with a short section linking the national highway to the Nepal border. It will ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU A British Airways flight from Paris was evacuated at Charles de Gaulle airport here on Sunday for security reasons after passengers were told a direct threat had been made towards the aircraft. Flight BA 303 was due to take off for London when the incident occured, with police and fire engines surrounding the plane on the tarmac, ...

The latest round of talks between India and Pakistan on Indus Water Treaty concluded without reaching an agreement, the World Bank has said even as it assured that both countries will continue to work to resolve the issues in an amicable manner. “While an agreement has not been reached at the conclusion of the meetings, the World Bank will continue ...

At least 22 people were today reported injured in the incident of explosion at the Parsons Green station of the London Tube – the underground metro rail service. The police confirmed that ‘Improvised explosive device’ (IED) was used in London underground train attack. The London police is treating this attack as an act of terrorism. The explosion took place on ...

North Korea fired an unidentified missile eastwards over Japan and into the Pacific on Friday, Seoul and Tokyo said, its latest provocation amid high tensions over its banned weapons programmes. The launch, from near Pyongyang, came after the United Nations Security Council imposed an eighth set of sanctions on the country over its ballistic missile and atomic weapons programmes. That ...

Some 370,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar and entered Bangladesh since an upsurge in violence late last month, the United Nations said today. “An estimated 370,000 Rohingya have entered Bangladesh after fleeing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state since August 25,” Joseph Tripura, a spokesman for the UN refugee agency, told AFP. The true figure could be even higher as many new ...