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Myanmar to free more than 5,000 jailed for anti-coup protests: junta chief
Oct 18, 2021 (AFP)
A total of 5,636 prisoners will be freed to mark the Thadingyut festival later in October, Min Aung Hlaing said, days after he was excluded from a regional summ...
International call for Myanmar to let envoy meet Suu Kyi
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
The call comes as concerns grow over the military government's commitment to a "five-point consensus" agreed with regional bloc ASEAN to defuse the bloody crisi...
No defence witnesses at Suu Kyi incitement trial: lawyer
Oct 05, 2021 (AFP)
Suu Kyi went on trial in June, four months after she was taken into custody in a coup that sparked huge democracy protests. The 76-year-old faces a raft of char...
US Supreme Court returns, with explosive cases to decide on
Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)
For the first time in 18 months, the court's justices will be back on the bench in person -- although one member, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, recently tested posit...
Trial of Myanmar's Suu Kyi taking toll on her health: lawyer
Oct 04, 2021 (AFP)
Suu Kyi went on trial in June, four months after she was taken into custody in a coup that plunged the country into turmoil. The 76-year-old faces a raft of cha...
Myanmar junta unlikely to grant regional envoy meeting with Suu Kyi
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has been under global pressure to help resolve the crisis in member state Myanmar, where more than 1,100 people have ...
Myanmar anti-coup resistance drags military into bloody stalemate
Oct 01, 2021 (AFP)
Eight months after deposing Aung San Suu Kyi's government, Myanmar's military regime finds itself mired in a bloody stalemate, unable to crush fighters resistin...
Top Iraq Shiite cleric urges voting in parliamentary poll
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
The statement from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's office came against the backdrop of potentially high rates of abstention in the October 10 ballot, which follow...
Hong Kong government to wind up Apple Daily parent company
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
Authorities have moved to rein in press freedoms in Hong Kong as China remoulds the once-outspoken city in its own authoritarian image, following huge and often...
'Urgent' international response needed in Myanmar after coup: UN
Sep 29, 2021 (AFP)
In the document on "the situation of human rights of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar," the UN chief also said he feared that the military's gri...
Myanmar monks march against military junta
Sep 25, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil and its economy paralysed since February when the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government, ending a ten-year experime...
Myanmar faces 'alarming' risk of escalating civil war: UN
Sep 23, 2021 (AFP)
Michelle Bachelet told the United Nations Human Rights Council that time was running out for other countries to step up efforts to restore democracy and prevent...
Thousands flee Myanmar town after clashes with junta troops
Sep 22, 2021 (AFP)
Myanmar has been in turmoil since Aung San Suu Kyi's government was ousted by the military in February, sparking a nationwide uprising that the junta has tried ...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi goes on trial for incitement, pleads not guilty
Sep 21, 2021 (AFP)
Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy were deposed by the military in a February coup that sparked a mass uprising and a brutal junta crackdown on disse...
'Apathy and despair' as Iraq looks to October election
Sep 20, 2021 (AFP)
"I see the politicians' posters in the street, but I don't know the names or the programmes," says the man with a shaved head and tattooed forearms. "I think th...
Myanmar military convoy hit by roadside bomb near Yangon: junta
Sep 19, 2021 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's elected government in February, sparking mass pro-democracy protest...
Climate a top issue in Canada election, yet Greens in death spiral
Sep 18, 2021 (AFP)
Beset by internal feuding and other challenges, the Green Party has lost momentum and is struggling to hold on to its two seats in the 338-member parliament in ...
Myanmar junta to put Suu Kyi on trial for corruption
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
Suu Kyi has been under house arrest since her National League for Democracy (NLD) government was deposed by the military in a February coup that sparked a mass ...
Five things to know about Norway's elections
Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)
- Change is in the air - Barring a major upset, Prime Minister Erna Solberg's centre-right coalition that has governed Norway since 2013 is set to be ousted, ac...
Environment threats 'greatest challenge to human rights': UN
Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)
Michelle Bachelet said climate change, pollution and nature loss were already having a severe impact but that countries were consistently failing to take action...
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