"I swear to God I need help," said the man quietly on the other end of the line.
The Ethiopian, who calls himself Mike, said he is being held with 450 others in a building inside Myanmar, along the country's border with Thailand.
They are among the (...)
MADINAH — A fourth batch of pilgrims hosted under the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' Guests Program for Hajj, Umrah and Visit has arrived in Madinah.
The current batch of guest pilgrims includes 250 men and women from 14 countries from South (...)
"I just wanted to own a house and pay off my debts — that's why I decided to sell my kidney," says Zeya, a farm worker in Myanmar.
Prices had soared after a military coup in 2021 triggered civil war. He could barely feed his young family and was (...)
A 22-member Bangladeshi delegation of political leaders, civil society activists, academics and journalists has begun a 10-day visit to China.
They will be having talks with Chinese government officials and senior members of the ruling Communist (...)
Asha Roy, 17, was excited to take part in a women's football tournament, but her hopes were dashed as Islamists forced the organizers to cancel the match in northern Bangladesh.
Shortly before the game began earlier this month, the Islami Andolan (...)
More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centers in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand.
The workers, more than half of whom were from African or Asian (...)
Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her government tried to cling on to power using systematic, deadly violence against protesters that could amount to "crimes against humanity", the UN has said.
UN human rights investigators accused (...)
Protesters in Bangladesh have vandalized and set fire to the former family home of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as well as those of other members of her party.
The unrest was sparked by news that Hasina would address the country via social (...)
Mangala Pradhan will never forget the morning she lost her one-year-old son.
It was 16 years ago, in the unforgiving Sundarbans — a vast, harsh delta of 100 islands in India's West Bengal state. Her son Ajit, just beginning to walk, was full of (...)
Police in the Indian city of Mumbai have arrested a man in connection with a knife attack on Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan last week.
Khan, one of India's biggest stars, was stabbed by an intruder at his home, in an attack that shocked the country. (...)
UK Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq has resigned after growing pressure over an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.
She had referred herself to the prime minister's standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, after questions about links to her (...)
Myanmar's army bombed a village under the control of the Arakan Army, killing about 40 people and injuring at least 20 others, officials of the ethnic minority group and a local charity said Thursday.
Hundreds of houses burned in a fire triggered by (...)
China has approved the construction of what will be the world's largest hydropower dam, stoking concerns about displacement of communities in Tibet and environmental impacts downstream in India and Bangladesh.
The dam, which will be located in the (...)
A Labour minister has been named in an investigation into claims her family embezzled up to £3.9bn (Tk 590 billion) from infrastructure projects in Bangladesh.
Tulip Siddiq, 42, who as the Treasury's Economic Secretary is responsible for tackling (...)
The end, when it came for the BGP5 barracks, was loud and brutal. First, a crackly speaker calling out for their surrender; then, a thunderous barrage of artillery, rockets and rifle fire that tore chunks out of the buildings in which hundreds of (...)
A war of words between Bangladesh and neighbor India is threatening to spiral out of control following protests and counter-protests over the alleged ill-treatment of Hindu minorities in the country.
Diplomatic relations between the neighbors and (...)
The arrest of a Hindu monk in Bangladesh has triggered a fresh war of words with neighbor India over the condition of minorities in the country.
Chinmoy Krishna Das, a spokesperson of a Bangladesh-based Hindu organization, was arrested on sedition (...)
People in India's capital Delhi woke up to a thick layer of smog as the air quality deteriorated to severe levels in the city.
Delhi and its neighboring cities are experiencing pollution levels that are at least 30-35 times the safe limit (...)
Authorities in India are evacuating nearly 1.5 million people from the path of an approaching cyclone in the eastern states of Odisha (formerly Orissa) and West Bengal.
Thousands of relief workers have been deployed to minimize damage from Cyclone (...)
RIYADH — The Saudi Professional Accreditation Program, launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, has so far verified the skills and accredited more than 209,500 workers in various professions covering over 1,000 occupations (...)
A Bangladeshi court has ordered an arrest warrant for former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India in August after she was ousted by mass protests.
Hasina is wanted by Bangladesh's International Criminal Tribunal (ICT) for her alleged (...)
The relationship between neighbors India and Bangladesh continues to remain frosty more than a month after former prime minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted from power. While Hasina's stay in India remains an irritant, a recent interview by (...)
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's firm has denied fresh allegations that Swiss authorities had frozen $310m (£236m) of their funds in Swiss bank accounts.
US-based short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged that the action was part of a money (...)
Bangladesh's transitional government chief, Muhammad Yunus, has called on former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to refrain from making political statements while in India, stating that her remarks are causing discomfort between the two neighboring (...)
The death toll in Bangladesh from heavy rainfall and flooding caused by overflowing rivers has climbed to 59 as of late Saturday, with monsoon rains wreaking havoc across the country for nearly two weeks.
Authorities report that the floods have (...)
