United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has welcomed the ICJ's ruling ordering Myanmar to prevent genocide against the Rohingya people, and "will promptly transmit the notice of the provisional measures" it ordered to the U.N. Security Council, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Thursday that conditions were met for emergency measures in Myanmar to protect the Rohingya Muslim minority on the request of the Gambia, obliging Myanmar to ensure that its armed units do not commit or incite genocide

More than a hundred migrants who had been recently rescued in Malta's waters disembarked in a southern Italian port on Thursday, triggering a backlash from the opposition Lega party, national media reported

China's President Xi Jinping arrives in Myanmar this week to nail down multi-billion-dollar infrastructure deals in a country abandoned by many in the West appalled at the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims on leader Aung San Suu Kyi's watch

The UN's top court will deliver its decision next week on whether emergency measures should be imposed on Myanmar over alleged genocide against its Rohingya Muslims, the Gambian government tweeted Wednesday