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Many killed in artillery strike in northern Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 10/10/2023
» NAYPYITAW - Myanmar's military was not responsible for an artillery strike that killed at least 30 people at a refugee camp in Kachin state on the border with China, a junta spokesperson told local media on Tuesday.
Myanmar's anti-junta unity government says forms defence force
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2021
» Myanmar's National Unity Government, set up by opponents of army rule, said on Wednesday it had formed a "people's defence force" to protect its supporters from military attacks and violence instigated by the junta.
Indonesian police shoot suspected militant after officer slashed
Reuters, Published on 18/08/2019
» JAKARTA: A suspected Islamic militant has launched an attack on an Indonesian police station in the country's second-biggest city, slashing one officer with a sickle, before being shot and taken into custody, police officials said on Sunday.
Fifteen dead in Sri Lanka after gun battle
Reuters, Published on 27/04/2019
» COLOMBO: The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people.
At least 29 dead in Somalia hotel attack
Reuters, Published on 01/03/2019
» MOGADISHU, Somalia: A gun battle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and Al Shabaab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.
US to lift sanctions if N.Korea dismantles nukes
Reuters, Published on 14/05/2018
» WASHINGTON (Reuters) - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that Washington would agree to lift sanctions on North Korea if the country agrees to completely dismantle its nuclear weapons program, a move that would create economic prosperity that "will rival" that of South Korea.
Dozens reported killed in suspected Syria gas attack
Reuters, Published on 08/04/2018
» BEIRUT: A chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta killed dozens of people, a medical relief organisation and a rescue service said, and Washington said the reports -- if confirmed -- would demand an immediate international response.
Israel strikes Gaza after soldiers hurt, two Palestinians dead
Reuters, Published on 18/02/2018
» GAZA: Israeli fire killed two Palestinian teenagers in Gaza, local health officials said on Sunday, after Israel launched attacks against 18 targets belonging to militant groups in the enclave in response to an explosion that wounded four Israeli soldiers.
New York charges Times Square bomb suspect
Reuters, Published on 12/12/2017
» DHAKA/NEW YORK: New York officials on Tuesday said they charged a Bangladeshi man with terrorism, accusing him of setting off a pipe bomb a day earlier in a crowded Manhattan commuter hub, as investigators in his home country questioned his wife.
Death toll tops 300 in Iraq/Iran earthquake
Reuters, Published on 13/11/2017
» BAGHDAD/ANKARA: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake killed at least 328 people in Iran and others in neighbouring Iraq on Sunday night, state media in the two countries said, as rescuers stepped up efforts overnight to find more victims trapped under rubble.