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We are deeply, deeply troubled by those reports of mass graves, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a regular news briefing. (Photo: File)

Rohingya crisis: US deeply, deeply troubled' by news of mass graves in...

Myanmar's army had said that the security forces had discovered a mass grave on the edge of a village in Rakhine State.

2 Feb 2018 4:07 PM IST

The figure is the highest estimated death toll yet of violence that erupted on August 25 and triggered a massive refugee crisis, with more than 6, 20,000 Rohingya fleeing Myanmar for Bangladesh in three months. (Representational image)

Reports, mass graves in Myanmar confirm massacre of Rohingyas

The Myanmar government regularly claims such massacres of the Rohingya never happened.

2 Feb 2018 3:35 PM IST

Donald Trump, in a New Years Day tweet, accused the country of giving nothing to the US but lies and deceit and providing safe haven to terrorists in return for USD 33 billion aid over the last 15 years. (Photo: File)

Not contemplating military action inside Pakistan: Pentagon

Instead, the US seeks Pakistan's cooperation and assistance in various operations under its new South Asia strategy.'

2 Feb 2018 1:52 PM IST

The boys family was originally told that he had choked on a cupcake. This was disproven when the coroner ruled that he had died from blunt force trauma. (Photo: File/Representational)

2 Georgia sisters indicted for killing 3-yr-old with baseball bat over...

Morris used the bat to hit KeJuan Mason repeatedly in the head while her sister used her hand to spank the little boy.

2 Feb 2018 1:01 PM IST

The incident triggered a lockdown of the campus and a neighbouring high school. Parents swarmed the area seeking to be re-united with their children. (Photo: File/Representational)

12-year-old girl held after gun goes off in US middle school, 5...

Authorities said they were trying to determine how the gun was brought on campus.

2 Feb 2018 11:41 AM IST

Concerned Chinese citizens affectionately nicknamed The British PM Aunty May and worried if her legs were warm enough in the Beijing cold. (Photo: AP)

China likens to British PM, worries if Aunty May' is warm enough

The three-day trade visit has seen May earn assurances from China that Brexit will not affect the country's enthusiasm.

2 Feb 2018 10:58 AM IST

Castro Diaz-Balart had been working as a scientific counsellor to the Cuban Council of State and Vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences at the time of his death. (Photo: AFP)

Fidel Castro's eldest son Fidelito commits suicide after battling...

Castro Diaz-Balart, also known as 'Fidelito' was hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment as an...

2 Feb 2018 10:32 AM IST

The Pentagon has said that New Delhi has offered the United States with aviation maintenance and developmental aid. (Photo:AP)

India key player in US's South Asia Strategy: Pentagon

'Our relationship with India is multifaceted. India is helping with respect to South Asian Strategy,' Pentagon's Chief...

2 Feb 2018 7:59 AM IST

Battaglia had been divorced from his wife, Mary Jean Pearl, for about a year when he fatally shot their two daughters, Mary Faith, then 9 years old, and Liberty, 6, prosecutors said. (Photo: File/Representational)

Texas man gets death penalty for killing 2 daughters, making wife hear...

He was arrested shortly afterward at a tattoo parlor where he was getting rose tattoos to remember his dead daughters.

1 Feb 2018 7:23 PM IST

Nearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their villages into Bangladesh since the Myanmar militarys crackdown following Aug 25 attacks by Rohingya insurgents. (Photo: File/Representational)

UN official says Rohingya crisis has hallmarks of genocide'

Lee said that Myanmar's actions were amounting to crimes against humanity.'

1 Feb 2018 6:24 PM IST

Trump in his first State of the Union address Wednesday pushed for an immigration policy that attracts the best and the brightest to the US. (Photo: AP)

Merit-based immigration necessary, can benefit Indians: WH

The flood of low-skilled immigrants into the US has suppressed wages, harmed American workers and strained federal...

1 Feb 2018 5:52 PM IST

The experts cut a large hole through the shell to burn off explosive materials inside before a crane lifted the earth-covered bomb off the site on Thursday. (Photo: AFP)

WWII bomb defused in Hong Kong after thousands evacuated

It was the second time within a week that an American bomb dropped during WWII had been discovered.

1 Feb 2018 5:16 PM IST