Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.
Rohingya refugees Shamshida, 25, left, and Manwara, 19, in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia told the Azerbaijani leader, Ilham Aliyev, in a phone call, “that the tragic incident took place in Russian airspace.”
Children sit inside their family’s tent at a camp in the central Gaza Strip. Over the last 14 months, at least 90 percent of Gaza’s population has been displaced at least once.
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Vasyl Pipa speeding through the ruins of Kurakhove, in eastern Ukraine. He is helping civilians escape the town as part of the White Angels police unit.
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Surreal scenes involving hats are commonplace at Royal Ascot, the five-day British racing event that is as famous for its outrageous millinery as its stallions.
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Russia has assembled a fleet of hundreds of vessels to covertly ship its oil. With so many ships at sea, the idea of using some to cause havoc may be proving irresistible to the Kremlin.
Brutally persecuted for years by the military in Myanmar, the Rohingya ethnic minority has now become the target of one of the junta’s most formidable rivals in the country’s civil war.
Rohingya refugees Shamshida, 25, left, and Manwara, 19, in their tent in Teknaf, Bangladesh.
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