
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday that at least 6,700 Rohingya Muslims were killed in the first month of a Myanmar army crackdown on rebels in Rakhine state that began in late August. The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 ...

A Russian resolution on the international inquiry into chemical attacks in Syria has been rejected by the UN Security Council, shortly after Russia vetoed a rival proposal by the US, calling it flawed and unbalanced. The US and Russia both put forward their respective resolutions to the UN Security Council ...