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Duterte says only empty tribal schools would be bombed
Associated Press, Published on 28/07/2017
» MANILA -- The Philippine president said his threat to launch airstrikes against tribal schools because they allegedly teach subversion would apply only when the buildings are empty, a clarification that still raised concern he was advocating a war crime.
Rights groups ask Duterte to retract threat to bomb schools
Associated Press, Published on 26/07/2017
» MANILA -- Human rights groups asked the Philippine president on Wednesday to retract a threat to order airstrikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist rebels, warning such an attack would constitute a war crime.
Masked swordsman kills teacher in Swedish school
Associated Press, Published on 22/10/2015
» A masked man armed with a sword attacked a school in southern Sweden on Thursday before being shot by police. Health authorities said one teacher was killed and two students seriously wounded in the attack.
Video of Thai navy cadets smashing phones stirs criticism
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2015
» When the Royal Thai Navy says cadets can't bring phones to training, it means it.
Recovery teams find Germanwings black box
Associated Press, Published on 25/03/2015
» SEYNE-LES-ALPES, FRANCE — A black box recovered from the scene and pulverised pieces of debris strewn across Alpine mountainsides held clues to what caused a German jetliner to take an unexplained eight-minute dive Tuesday midway through a flight from Spain to Germany, apparently killing all 150 people on board.
End of Sri Lanka president post eyed
Associated Press, Published on 01/12/2014
» COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A former Sri Lanka health minister on Monday signed an agreement with opposition parties, trade unions and professional groups to scrap the country's powerful presidential system and carry out other democratic reforms if he beats incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa and wins January's presidential election.
Myanmar census bars name Rohingya
Associated Press, Published on 30/03/2014
» YANGON - Enumerators fanned out across Myanmar on Sunday for a census that has been widely criticised for stoking religious and ethnic tensions, after the government denied members of a long-persecuted Muslim minority the right to identify themselves as ''Rohingya.''
Myanmar mobs kill 40 Muslims
Associated Press, Published on 23/01/2014
» Buddhist mobs killed at least 40 Muslims when they stormed a village in western Myanmar last week, hunting down residents with knives, a human rights group said, citing witness testimony and a wide network of local sources.
Muslims 'killed by Myanmar mob'
Associated Press, Published on 17/01/2014
» A Buddhist mob rampaged through a town in an isolated corner of Myanmar, hacking Muslim women and children with knives, a villager and a rights group reported, saying Friday that more than a dozen people may have been killed.
When mob was Rohingya, Myanmar's response ruthless
Associated Press, Published on 25/11/2013
» BA GONE NAR, Myanmar — Noor Jaan lifted her black Islamic veil and recalled the last time she saw her husband. He was among more than 600 Rohingya Muslim men thrown in jail in this remote corner of Myanmar during a ruthless security crackdown that followed sectarian violence, and among one in 10 who did not make it out alive.