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Mexico deploys 15,000 troops to US border to slow migration
AFP, Published on 25/06/2019
» MEXICO CITY - Mexico has deployed nearly 15,000 soldiers and National Guardsmen to its border with the United States, the army chief said Monday -- admitting they are detaining migrants who try to cross, after the policy triggered backlash.
Tiananmen museum reopens in Hong Kong to mark anniversary
Published on 26/04/2019
» HONG KONG: A museum documenting the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre reopened in Hong Kong on Friday after a three-year hiatus, marking the 30th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on a pro-democracy protest.
Top Myanmar court rejects appeal of award-winning Reuters reporters
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» NAYPYIDAW (MYANMAR) - Myanmar's Supreme Court rejected the latest appeal Tuesday by two Pulitzer-prize winning Reuters journalists who were jailed for seven years on charges linked to their reporting on the Rohingya crisis, as hopes now turn to a presidential pardon.
Moon in N.Korea to boost waning de-nuke hopes
Kyodo News, Published on 18/09/2018
» SEOUL/PYONGYANG: South Korean President Moon Jae In was warmly welcomed Tuesday as he became the country's third president to visit Pyongyang, amid drastic changes in the situation surrounding efforts to denuclearise North Korea since the beginning of this year.
Meth trade forges unlikely link between Rohingya and Myanmar soldiers
AFP, Published on 10/05/2018
» TEKNAF (BANGLADESH) - Huge quantities of meth are seeding unrest inside Bangladesh's refugee camps, as jobless Rohingya turn drug runners for a criminal chain that stretches back to Myanmar -- and the soldiers who drove them out.
Rohingya survivors dispute Myanmar army massacre account
Published on 12/01/2018
» BALUKHALI, Bangladesh: Rohingya Muslims who fled a village where Myanmar has admitted its forces helped massacre 10 people said Thursday the victims were all civilians, not fighters as asserted by the army.
Myanmar military admits soldiers murdered 10 captured Rohingya
Reuters, Published on 11/01/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar's military admitted its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim "terrorists" during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September, after Buddhist villagers had forced the captured men into a grave they had dug.
Myanmar military admits mass murder of Rohingya
Published on 11/01/2018
» YANGON: Myanmar's military admitted on Wednesday its soldiers had murdered 10 captured Muslim "terrorists" during insurgent attacks at the beginning of September.
Philippines to protest to China over manmade island ‘airbase’
Reuters, Published on 09/01/2018
» MANILA: The Philippines will make a diplomatic protest to China, which the southeast Asian nation's defence minister described as having reneged on a promise not to militarise artificial islands in the busy South China Sea waterway.
US to drop Iraq, Myanmar as worst offenders on child soldiers
Reuters, Published on 25/06/2017
» WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a US list of the world's worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, US officials said, a step that could prompt accusations the Trump administration is prioritising security and diplomatic interests ahead of human rights.