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Rights group: Myanmar army building on razed Rohingya land

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Nepalese rescuers stand near a passenger plane from Bangladesh that crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta)

Plane carrying 71 people crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Nepalese rescuers stand near a passenger plane from Bangladesh that crashed at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shreshta)

Plane carrying 71 people crashes, catches fire in Kathmandu

By Binaj Gurubacharya - Associated Press

Myanmar defends deployment of troops to Bangladesh border

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This file photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday, May 12, 2014, shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaking to the camera. (AP Photo) (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. sharpens focus on ISIS in Asia and Africa

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Complex laws contributed to woes of dad fighting deportation

By RICK MONTGOMERY - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 4, 2017 file photo, a Rohingya woman living in no man's land washes a pot from a stream near Cox's Bazar's Tumbru area, while smoke rises from fires across the border in Myanmar. A Bangladeshi official says Myanmar has agreed to resettle more than 6,000 Rohingya Muslims who have been stranded in a no man's land between the two countries, as plans for the repatriation of hundreds of thousands of others have been delayed over concerns for their safety if they return to Myanmar. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Myanmar to resettle 6,000 stranded Rohingya refugees

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Bangladesh's Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan, second right, receives Myanmar's Home Minister Kyaw Swe, second left, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, Feb.16, 2018. Kyaw Swe, on a three-day visit to Bangladesh told Bangladesh's president that Myanmar is ready to take back Rohingya Muslims who fled violence, though Bangladesh said it wanted the hundreds of thousands of refugees to have a safe and dignified return. (AP Photo)

Bangladesh gives names to begin Rohingya repatriation

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 12, 2014, file photo, Myanmar journalist Thet Oo Maung, known as Wa Lone, right, stands with other journalists with their mouths taped, symbolizing the government's crackdown on media, in Yangon, Myanmar. Under Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar has aggressively pursued legal charges against dozens of journalists, along with other attempts to suppress and discredit the media. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win, File)

Myanmar government under Suu Kyi cracks down on journalists

By TODD PITMAN - Associated Press

The Latest: Kansas immigrant returned to Missouri

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The Latest: Attorney studying options in Kansas man’s saga

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Chemist was on plane being deported when judge granted stay

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Laborers work at newly-built repatriation camps prepared for the planned return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, in Maung Daw township, border town of northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

AP Interview: Richardson resigns from Rohingya refugee panel

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million, was basking in international praise just a few years ago as it transitioned to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. Since then, a campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country's 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Fears that Rohingya Muslims could be next radical Islamic recruits

By Prashun Mazumdar — Special to The Washington Times

FILE- In this Oct. 18, 2017, file photo, Rohingya Muslim women, who crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, stand holding their sick children after Bangladesh border guard soldiers refused to let them journey towards a hospital and turned them back towards the zero line border in Palong Khali, Bangladesh. An international aid agency projects that 48,000 babies will be born in overcrowded refugee camps this year for Rohingya who have fled to Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar. Save the Children warned in a report released Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, that the newborns will be at an increased risk of disease and malnutrition, and therefore of dying before the age of five. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Aid group projects 48,000 births in crowded Rohingya camps

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Rohingya Muslim man Naseer Ud Din holds his infant son Abdul Masood, who drowned when the boat they were traveling in capsized just before reaching the shore, as his wife Hanida Begum cries upon reaching the Bay of Bengal shore in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh. Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist nation of 60 million, was basking in international praise just a few years ago as it transitioned to democracy after a half-century of dictatorship. Since then, a campaign of killings, rape and arson attacks by security forces and Buddhist-aligned mobs have sent more than 850,000 of the country's 1.3 million Rohingya fleeing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Analysis: No sign Rohingya will be allowed to return home

By ESTHER HTUSAN and ROBIN MCDOWELL - Associated Press

In this Friday Nov. 24, 2017, photo, Mohammadul Hassan, 18, is photographed in his family's tent in Jamtoli refugee camp in Bangladesh. Hassan still bears the scars on his chest and back from being shot by soldiers who attempted to execute him. More than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since August, and many have brought with them stories of atrocities committed by security forces in Myanmar, including an Aug. 27 army massacre that reportedly took place in the village of Maung Nu. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Rohingya survivors: Myanmar’s army slaughtered men, children

By TODD PITMAN - Associated Press

Bangladeshi immigrant Sultan Ahmed gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in the Kensington neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi immigrant, was arrested in a botched suicide bombing in an underground passageway between Times Square — the city's busiest subway station — and the bustling Port Authority Bus Terminal. The city's Bangladeshi community is concerned about what that could mean for their immigration future in a political climate where the attack is already being used by President Donald Trump and others as yet more reasons immigration needs to be restricted. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Bangladeshis worry they’ll pay price for NYC subway bomb

By DEEPTI HAJELA and VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

A man parks a motorcycle inside a building where 27-year-old Bangladeshi man Akayed Ullah, used to live in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Bangladesh counterterrorism officers are questioning the wife and other relatives of Ullah, who is accused of carrying out a bomb attack in New York City's subway system, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Bangladesh: Accused NYC attacker followed radical preacher

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Police stand guard inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal following an explosion near Times Square on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in New York. Police said a man with a pipe bomb strapped to his body set off the crude device in a passageway under 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Bangladesh questions family of man accused of NYC attack

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