Hezbollah targets Israeli troops on Lebanese border, sirens in Beirut

Powerful criminal networks in Southeast Asia extensively use the messaging app Telegram which has enabled a fundamental change in the way organised crime can conduct large-scale illicit activity, the United Nations said in a report on Monday.

Muhammad Yunus, Bangladesh’s interim leader, is urging the international community to take action on the Rohingya crisis.

In August 2017, a deadly crackdown by Myanmar`s army on Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State sent hundreds of thousands fleeing across the border into Bangladesh. Those persecuted joined around 300,000 people already in Bangladesh from previous waves of displacement, effectively forming the world`s largest refugee camp. Today, Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Rohingyas in Cox`s Bazar and Bhasan Char, where refugees reside in 33 extremely congested camps. Not a single Rohingya has been repatriated so far, though there were attempts to begin repatriation in the past years.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is set to visit Bangladesh on October 4, 2024. The Prime Minister will visit Bangladesh only for hours after completing his visit to Pakistan. Even though it will be a `very short` visit with duration of `four hours maximum` planned at the last moment, both countries are seeing the visit as official one. The visit will marks a pivotal moment in the diplomatic and economic landscape of both nations. 

The recently aggravated ethnic tensions in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) between the Bengalis and ethnic minorities have presented the country with a set of new political, social, and security challenges. Since the country is already in turmoil as a result of the recent political upheaval, the conflict in the CHT adds a threat to the country’s socio-political stability, and so it requires prompt, just, and equitable solutions.