International

GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...

A group of prominent community activists and politicians, including eleven Nobel peace prize winners, have written to the UN Security Council urging them to help end the suffering of the Rohingya Muslims living in the Rakhine province in Myanmar. The ...

Manjurul Islam, a member of the Bangladesh Parliament for the Gaibandha Sundarganj constituency, has died after being shot by three gunmen who attacked him at his home in Bamandanga of Sundarganj in northern Bangladesh. Mr Islam was injured in the ...

Last month a UN inquiry came to the conclusion that the Syrian Government had twice used the highly poisonous gas chlorine against its own people. In August there were allegations that chlorine had been used for a third time, and ...

Human Appeal has just revealed that the hospital it operates in Aleppo has narrowly escaped disaster last Sunday. As an air strike took place, a bomb dropped just yards away from the hospital’s side entrance. It left a crater two ...

Islamic Relief – one of the only NGOs still operating inside the beleaguered Syrian city of Aleppo – has called for an immediate truce in the area. The charity fears that the 300,000 residents left in the city could be ...

Major multinationals have been reviewing their investment in Bangladesh after the terror attack in Dhaka last week. The companies are concerned that the attack may be a signal that further attacks will come, which could problems ranging from increasing risks ...

Life in Dhaka changed forever on Friday, as the city discovered that it seems to have become a target for ISIS activity. The incident began when gunmen burst in to the Holey Artisan Bakery, a somewhat upmarket café, known to ...

Hillary Clinton has formally acknowledged that she now has enough delegates in place to be chosen as the Democratic Party’s candidate for US President. Winning the vote isn’t always a guarantee of going on to be the official candidate, but ...

Mystery surrounds the murder of Mahmuda Aktar, wife of Superintendent Babul Aktar, in Chittagong today. Immediate responses to the murder centred on speculation that Ms Aktar was killed because of her husband’s leading role in police investigations into the Jamayetul ...