Myanmar army chief says Rohingya Muslims not native, refugee numbers exaggerated
"They are not the natives, and the records prove that they were not even called Rohingya but just Bengalis during the colonial period"
Afghan civilian casualties from air strikes rise more than 50 percent, says U.N.
More than two thirds of the civilian victims were women and children
Thousands evacuated in Vietnam as floods, landslides kill 46
More than 17,000 households have been evacuated and more than 200 homes have collapsed
We need a global community to fight climate change
The only way to take on dirty energy and climate change is to build movements of people
Brutal Myanmar army operation aimed at preventing Rohingya return -U.N.
"Almost all testimonies indicated that people were shot at close range and in the back while they tried to flee in panic"
Genocide trial against ex-Guatemalan dictator Rios Montt to restart
New trial will revisit the earlier accusations that Rios Montt ordered massacres leading to deaths of at least 1,771 Ixil Mayan Indians
Campaigners set sights on marital rape after India child bride ruling
Along with Niger, Guinea, South Sudan, Chad and Burkina Faso, India is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage
Poor nations suffer most deaths, economic pain from wild weather
People making $1,000 a year or less are most likely to die in disasters, research shows
The grief and despair of the Rohingya can be stopped
The Rohingya in Myanmar need to be afforded the most basic of human rights: to a nationality and to a safe home
Trapped Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar get first substantial food aid in months
More than half a million Rohingya villagers have fled to Bangladesh to escape what the United Nations has called a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing"