German Fenerbahçe midfielder, Mesut Ozil, has donated €101,000 ($120,770) to the Turkish Red Crescent for an aid campaign run during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Anadolu news agency reported. The...
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UK The "powerful and dangerous" Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has suffered a major setback in its bid to shut down a lawsuit over the hacking of WhatsApp. Facebook, which...
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US Dabirul Islam Choudhury OBE has just celebrated his 101st birthday at his London home with his son. It would have been a huge celebration surrounded by many of his...
A Turkish military cargo plane carrying hospital supplies and a field hospital departed for Bangladesh early Saturday following the March 22 deadly blaze in Cox's Bazar which shelters thousands...
After a year of impasse, the UN and Bangladesh finally reached a consensus on a first-hand visit by the UN delegation to the Rohingya relocation site on a remote...
Rohingya refugees who have been residing in Saudi Arabia for decades will not be sent back to Bangladesh, a top Bangladeshi diplomat said on Wednesday following a recent visit...
An investigation by Al Jazeera revealed that the Bangladesh government spent nearly $330,000 on phone-hacking equipment made by an Israeli company despite the 2 countries not having any diplomatic relations
The notorious Israeli NSO Group, whose invasive Pegasus spyware is alleged to have been used to target human rights defenders and journalists around the world, is under renewed investigation...
Libyan security forces have arrested one of the main suspects in the murder of 30 mostly Bangladeshi migrants in the city of Mizdah, south of the capital Tripoli, last...
Over 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since the Gulf state was awarded the 2022 football World Cup ten years ago, the Guardian has revealed. Findings compiled from a range...
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Sri Lanka A Saudi woman has been convicted of murdering her Bangladeshi maid by a criminal court in Saudi Arabia, in a ruling rights groups in the South Asian nation said...
United Nations spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric on Tuesday said the UN is deeply concerned by the situation of nearly 31,000 foreign children detained in Al-Hawl and Rouge refugee camps in...
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UN Israeli-made surveillance equipment sold via a convicted criminal is being used by the Bangladeshi government to target political opposition
Bangladesh on Monday began relocating the 2nd batch of Rohingya refugees to a remote island, amid concerns from rights groups, Anadolu reports. Speaking to Anadolu Agency over the phone,...
An Israeli cabinet minister has confirmed that there is a fifth Muslim-majority country in Asia that could soon normalise relations with Tel Aviv, but clarified that it is not...
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UAE Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today received credentials from envoys of five countries. Erdogan welcomed the new ambassadors of China, Japan, Luxembourg, Latvia and Bangladesh at the presidential complex...
Turkey's state aid agency on Sunday finished handing out blankets to 5,000 Rohingya families in Bangladesh's refugee camps on the eve of the arrival of winter, Anadolu Agency reports. "As part...
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it has sent 154 migrants from Libya to their countries of origin, Xinhua news agency reports. According to report, last week, 154 Bangladeshi migrants returned...
Saudi Arabia has reportedly threatened to return Bangladeshi workers from the kingdom if the country does not issue passports to some 54,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been living in...
Turkey has offered to export 15,000 tons of onions to Bangladesh amid a price hike due to an export ban by India. "Turkey has offered to export 15,000 tons...
Turkey will restore a Bangladeshi naval ship that was damaged during the deadly blast at the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut earlier this month, the Turkish National Defence...
Bangladesh police said on Monday they have arrested three men over the trafficking of hundreds of young women taken to Dubai on the promise of jobs in hotels and...
Details of human trafficking in Kuwait which saw the arrest of an MP from Bangladesh suggests that the scandal is not simply a case of one single rogue lawmaker....
The 30 migrants slain by traffickers in Libya on Wednesday had been abducted while crossing the country in search of work and then tortured to extract a ransom, Bangladesh's...
A 100-year-old Londoner walking 100 laps while fasting has raised a staggering $170,000 in aid of refugees. Following in the footsteps of Captain Tom Moore, fellow centurion Dabir Choudhury...
Reaching 100 years of age is itself a rare and amazing feat. But Londoner Dabir Choudhury, is looking to do the unthinkable for most his age by walking 100...
The Humanitarian Fund of Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has donated more than $43 million to the UN Refugee Agency to support displaced populations in Yemen, Lebanon, Bangladesh and Chad, UNHCR said in a press release on...
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Yemen![Rohingya's wait for food aid, provided by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on 30 November 2017 [Fırat Yurdakul/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_11-30Turkey-continues-critical-aid-to-Rohingya-refugees20171130_2_27210191_28343007.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
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The coronavirus pandemic has presented a serious test to how different societies and countries can work together to tackle an unprecedented force. Many governments and individuals have grappled the...
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Anjuman Rahman Arab silence on the looming genocide of the Uyghur Muslims in China is deafening. Supposedly influential and powerful Arab states look on as the persecution continues. There are an...
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WHO Egypt's highest Islamic authority Al-Azhar thanked the Gambian government on Tuesday for filing a criminal case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Court condemning "the killings, abuse, genocide...
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Yvonne Ridley We are approaching that time of year when people of many faiths and none come together in unity to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, which serves as a stark reminder...
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Serbia An anonymous source close to law enforcement in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has exclusively informed MEMO that Deputy Prime Minister Mansour bin Zayed has ordered the reduction of Moroccans serving...