The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar has called on the international community to stand firm against Myanmar’s military junta and to “do a lot more” to protect the vulnerable Rohingya population in the country’s Rakhine State.

Activists and a number of victims of abuse in Myanmar have filed a criminal complaint in Germany, asking prosecutors to investigate top generals for instigating genocide against Rohingya Muslims and other atrocities since a military coup two years ago.

The UN says hundreds of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims have died or gone missing while trying to flee by sea.

Two human rights organizations said on Friday that two churches were destroyed in the airstrikes.

Myanmar authorities sentence 112 minority Rohingya Muslims, including a dozen children, to prison terms ranging between two and five years for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported on Tuesday.​​​​​​​

The military junta has honored Wirathu with a national award and says it will free thousands of prisoners.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 09:00 GMT, December 30, 2022

The UNHCR said the "unseaworthy" boat probably sank after it went missing.

The United Nations Security Council has called on Myanmar's military rulers to end violence and release all political prisoners, in its first ever resolution on the country in more than seven decades.

At least 100 Rohingya are stranded in a boat off India's Andaman Islands and at least are feared dead due to thirst, hunger, or drowning, reports said on Wednesday.