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Pro-Palestinian protests briefly disrupt University of Michigan graduation
Reuters, Published on 05/05/2024
» Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupted a commencement ceremony at the University of Michigan on Saturday while demonstrators faced off with police at the University of Virginia as U.S. colleges braced for more turmoil during graduation festivities.
Fight back or flee? Myanmar draft forces hard choices on youth
Reuters, Published on 08/04/2024
» Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta.
Myanmar junta to bring in mandatory military service
Reuters, Published on 14/02/2024
» Myanmar's ruling military plans to call up young people for mandatory service from April and also require retired security personnel to serve, media reports cited a junta spokesman as saying, as the army struggles to crush an anti-junta insurgency.
Factbox: Century-old India hanging bridge collapsed days after repair
Reuters, Published on 31/10/2022
» NEW DELHI: A suspension bridge in western India that collapsed on Sunday, killing at least 134 people, was built under British colonial rule and reopened only last week after repairs. Here are some details about the bridge:
After Myanmar coup, detainees' families search for answers
Reuters, Published on 29/01/2022
» Nearly a year after his son was last seen being hauled away by Myanmar junta troops, 66-year-old Win Hlaing says he just wants to know whether he is alive.
Gun that killed Billy the Kid to be auctioned
Business, Reuters, Published on 23/07/2021
» LOS ANGELES: One of the most iconic weapons of the American Wild West goes up for auction next month with the sale of the gun that killed 19th century outlaw Billy the Kid.
N.Koreans killed missing S.Korean then burned body, Seoul says
Reuters, Published on 24/09/2020
» SEOUL: A South Korean official who went missing from a fisheries patrol boat earlier this week was shot dead by North Korean troops who later burned his body, South Korea's military said on Thursday.
Bangladesh sentences 7 to death for 2016 cafe attack
Reuters, Published on 27/11/2019
» DHAKA: A Bangladesh court handed death sentences to seven members of an Islamist militant group on Wednesday for plotting an attack on a cafe in 2016 that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, in the south Asian nation's worst such incident.
China quietly doubles troop levels in Hong Kong: envoys
Reuters, Published on 30/09/2019
» HONG KONG: Last month, Beijing moved thousands of troops across the border into this restive city. They came in on trucks and armoured cars, by bus and by ship.
Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers join anti-government rally
Reuters, Published on 18/08/2019
» HONG KONG: Tens of thousands of protesters poured into one of Hong Kong's busiest shopping districts on Sunday, braving a downpour to join an anti-government rally in the eleventh week of what have been often violent demonstrations in the Asian financial hub.