Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York – Members of the Rohingya community who fled violence in Myanmar have addressed a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Tuerk, poses for a picture. Christiane Oelrich/dpa Violence is on the rise in ...

A “new wave of global instability is hitting Myanmar at the worst possible moment,” a UN official in the country warned on ...

The head of the Myanmar's junta Min Aung Hlaing has swapped his uniform for the top civilian office, but the move is unlikely to bring peace or even create distance from the authoritarian system ...

(Bloomberg) -- For years, Myanmar’s Rohingya — a Muslim minority cast by nationalists as outsiders — have lived in legal and political limbo, as their rights have been steadily stripped away. The long ...

Myanmar hit back Tuesday at a report by UN investigators calling for tougher sanctions against the country's powerful military to squeeze its business empire, accusing the probe of trying to harm the ...

Myanmar's military denies accusations by the UN and US that it has committed ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in northern Rakhine state. An army-led crackdown has forced some 620,000 people to ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Myanmar heard accusations that it is responsible for genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority at the top court of the United Nations, as long-awaited hearings began ...