ISNA | Mona Houbefekr: New ambassadors of Afghanistan, Italy, Bangladesh and Bolivia to Iran submitted their copies of credentials to President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday.
Press TV- Bangladesh has formally handed over to Myanmar's Home Minister Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe a list of more than 8,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees as Dhaka moves to launch their repatriation under an agreement signed between the two countries last year.
The delivery of the list occurred after officials of the two countries held a meeting ...
Press TV- A deal signed between Bangladesh and Myanmar for the repatriation of Rohingya Muslim refugees into their homeland in Myanmars state of Rakhine may not be implemented soon, authorities in Bangladesh have suggested.
A Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday that the January 21 deadline set as the date for the start of repatriation ...
FNA- The forty-Ninth fleet of the Iranian Navy warships arrived in Bangladesh to join joint military drills in the Indian Ocean.
Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced on Sunday that the Iranian fleet of warships comprising Sabalan destroyer and Bandar Abbas naval logistics vessel docked at Bangladeshi harbor to take part ...
Press TV- Bangladesh says it has agreed with Myanmar on repatriating hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees back to Myanmar amid widespread expressions of distrust of the process among the displaced.
Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali announced on Saturday that the two sides signed a repatriation agreement for the ...
Tasnim Head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Morteza Salimi said the Islamic Republic plans to build a field hospital in Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh.
The Iranian ambassador to Dhaka informed us today that the Bangladeshi government has agreed to designate a plot of land for Iran to build a ...
Press TV- Myanmar and Bangladesh have agreed to immediately halt the outflow of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh and take steps to return them to Myanmar, where the Muslims have been fleeing from because of government-sanctioned violence in the first place.
Myanmars home affairs minister, Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe, and his Bangladeshi counterpart,...
Press TV- At least 12 Rohignya Muslims, including six children, have been killed in yet another boat tragedy in waters off Bangladesh, which is reportedly dealing with a fresh influx of refugees fleeing Myanmars violence-torn Rakhine State.
Police said the boat carrying the refugees from Myanmar capsized in the Bay of Bengal near a fishing village ...
Press TV- Over 10,000 more Rohingya refugees fleeing a military crackdown at home in Myanmars Rakhine State have amassed near a crossing point with Bangladesh awaiting entry into the neighboring country.
The refugees are arriving at the western grove between Letphwekya and Kwunthpin village to emigrate to the neighboring country, the state-...
Press TV - There seems to be no end in sight to the plight of Rohingya Muslims as those members of the community who have fled persecution in Myanmar are now facing difficulties in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
The Indian government announced on Saturday that it would make a case to the countrys Supreme Court for the expulsion of up to 40,000 ...
Financial Tribune- A n Iranian delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs Ebrahim Rahimpour, accompanied by officials from Iranian Red Crescent Society, will leave Tehran for Bangladesh on Friday to help coordinate relief efforts for Rohingya Muslim refugees fleeing the Myanmar Armys persecution.
Iran has to shift its ...
Press TV - Amnesty International and Bangladeshi officials have slammed Myanmars military for using landmines against the Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence at home, causing many of the refugees to sustain seriousinjures or lose their body organs.
The United Nations says 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since the Myanmar ...
Press TV - Myanmar has reportedly been planting landmines across an area of its border with Bangladesh as thousands of Rohingya Muslims are fleeing a bloody crackdown to take refuge in neighboring Bangladesh.
Two government sources in Bangladesh told Reuters on Wednesday that Myanmarese forces had been putting the landmines in their territory ...
IRNA -- Irans Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi voiced Irans deep regret on landslide incident in Bangladesh.
Qasemi, on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, expressing deep sadness towards Bangladesh's landslides resulting in scores of dead and missing, sympathized with Bangladeshi government, people, and the families of the victims of ...
Tasnim An Iranian parliamentary delegation arrived in Dhaka on Saturday morning to attend the 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly meeting.
The Iranian team is comprised of seven lawmakers, including two women.
In the first event on the sidelines of the conference on Saturday morning, two Iranian MPs participated in a meeting of forum ...
Press TV- Bangladesh has urged Myanmar to end months of persecution and violence that have forced thousands of Rohingya Muslims in the northwestern Rakhine Stateto flee across the border.
Foreign Minister A.H. Mahmood Ali made the remark on Thursday after he held talks with a special envoy of Myanmar's State Counselor and Foreign Minister Aung ...
An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale has hit north-central Myanmar, the US Geological Survey says, with tremors felt in neighboring Bangladesh, India and Thailand as well.
The quake, whose epicenter was about 145 kilometers (90 miles) west of the city of Meiktila, and relatively deep at 84 kilometers (52 miles), struck Chauk, a town ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian foreign ministry condemned the Saturday morning hostage crisis which killed at least 28 in Bangladesh, and underlined the necessity for pressuring supporters of extremist groups to prevent spread of such crimes against humanity.
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi deplored the terrorist incident in Dhaka, and extended ...
The latest terror attack in Dhaka, less headline-making in the West, nonetheless shows we must be united in ridding our world of this evil, he tweeted.
Militants killed 20 people, including at least nine Italians, seven Japanese and an American, inside an upmarket restaurant in Bangladesh's capital, before security forces stormed the building and ...
The Bangladeshi army says 20 civilians, all of them foreigners,have been killed by Daesh-linked gunmenafter security forces ended a siege at a cafe in the capital, Dhaka.
Weve recovered 20 bodies. Most them had been brutally hacked to death with sharp weapons at Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury told reporters,...