Urging on all sides to deescalate tensions, the European Commission says that it is committed to putting in all efforts to restore aid delivery in Rakhine state of Myanmar.

Amnesty International says the Myanmar authorities' restrictions on international aid in Rakhine state is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific abuses from a disproportionate military campaign.

The Myanmar military has lost contact with a training jet and has kicked off a search for the missing plane, the military said on Tuesday.

Condemning the atrocities committed against the Rohingya community, Maldives today ceased trade ties with Myanmar.

India’s Supreme Court has sought to know the stance of the federal government on a petition challenging its decision to deport illegal Rohingya Muslim immigrants who face religious persecution in Myanmar.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has come under pressure from countries with large Muslim populations including Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan to stop violence against Rohingya Muslims after nearly 125,000 of them fled to Bangladesh.

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The systematic persecution of minority Muslims is on the rise across Myanmar and not confined to the northwestern state of Rakhine, where recent violence has sent nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing, a Myanmar rights group says.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detain 50 Rohingyas for entering the country amid escalating tension in Myanmar's Rakhine state following an attack by insurgents.

Two blasts rock a Myanmar area near the Bangladeshi border, accompanied by the sound of gunfire and thick black smoke, as violence that has sent nearly 90,000 Muslim Rohingya fleeing to Bangladesh shows no sign of easing.

A Rohingya woman’s body is recovered from the Naf river in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Indonesia's foreign minister is due to meet Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday to discuss delivering humanitarian aid to members of Myanmar's Rohingya minority, as Indonesian protesters urged their government to take a tougher line.

Rohingya children and women are being massacred, burnt alive and are fleeing their homes as reports of renewed persecution against Rohingya Muslims living in the Rakhine State of Myanmar dominates international and local media.

More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government says, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades.

Scores of Rohingya Muslim refugees offer Eid prayers in Bangladesh, many of them recent arrivals fleeing a surge in communal violence in neighbouring Myanmar.

As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarks on his first-ever bilateral state visit to Myanmar from September 5-7, the Rohingya issue will figure in his talks with the Myanmar’s top leadership.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will undertake a reshuffle of his council of ministers on Sunday in the third such exercise since he assumed charge more than three years ago.

Bangladesh has lodged a “strong protest” with the Myanmar embassy in Dhaka as Myanmar helicopters violated Bangladesh’s airspace near Ukhia in Cox's Bazar where Rohingyas fleeing violence in Rakhine state took shelter.

A United Nations human rights expert has expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, affecting not just the Rakhine and Muslim populations but also other communities.

A Pakistan court brands former military ruler Pervez Musharraf a fugitive in ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's murder trial, but acquits five men accused of being involved in the 2007 assassination.