U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon toured a displacement camp in Sri Lanka on Saturday, days after the country declared victory in a 25-year civil war against rebels. He visited portions of Manik Farm, a sprawling camp for internally displaced people in the country’s north
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After Bangladesh mutiny, search for missing
The Bangladeshi army resumed its search Friday for missing military officials inside an expansive paramilitary forces compound that had been the site of a deadly two-day standoff. More than 130 officers were unaccounted for, said Cmdr. Abdul Kalam Azad with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), an elite internal security team