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Myanmar quake struck mosques as minority Muslims gathered for Ramadan prayers
Reuters, Published on 29/03/2025
» NAY PYI TAW — When Friday's powerful earthquake struck central Myanmar, Htet Min Oo was performing ritual ablutions before Ramadan prayers at a mosque next to his house in Mandalay.
Learning a language for loss: Uyghur school in US offers link to homeland
AFP, Published on 24/04/2023
» FAIRFAX (UNITED STATES) - At a weekend school in the US state of Virginia, language classes serve a dual purpose for young Uyghurs -- cultural preservation, and access to vocabulary to discuss the plight of relatives in China.
In Bucha's morgue, autopsies begin on the victims of war
AFP, Published on 20/04/2022
» BUCHA, Ukraine: According to her death certificate, Lyudmyla Bochok, 79, was killed by a bullet to the head and the back on March 5.
The male model testing gender norms in a changing Saudi Arabia
AFP, Published on 20/04/2022
» With his hot pink hair extensions and leopard print pantsuit, model Ziad al-Mesfer was bound to turn heads during his recent public photo shoot in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia.
Untouchable: the baby born to a mum with coronavirus
AFP, Published on 03/04/2020
» MADRID - For 10 days after giving birth to her first child, the mother was not allowed near him after she tested positive for coronavirus, for fear of infecting her newborn.
Myanmar's last generation of tattooed headhunters
AFP, Published on 27/02/2020
» LONGWA (MYANMAR) - Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head -- and the agony of the tattoo he was given to celebrate their victory.
Rape victim's death fuels more outrage in India
Reuters and AP, Published on 07/12/2019
» NEW DELHI: A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men, including her alleged rapists, has died in a New Delhi hospital, prompting protests from opposition leaders who blamed authorities for failing to curb violence against women.
Margaret Atwood unveils sequel to 'The Handmaid's Tale'
AFP, Published on 10/09/2019
» LONDON - Margaret Atwood released the much-anticipated sequel to her award-winning 1985 novel "The Handmaid's Tale" on Tuesday, with "The Testaments" set to become a similar smash.
Malaysia steps up search for missing Franco-Irish teen
AFP, Published on 07/08/2019
» KUALA LUMPUR - A helicopter and dozens of people were deployed Tuesday on the third day of a search for a vulnerable London teenager who went missing from a Malaysian rainforest resort, police said.
Stigma or separation: The painful choice facing Myanmar's single mothers
AFP, Published on 13/11/2018
» THANLYIN (MYANMAR) - Eight months pregnant, shamed by her family and shunned by the father of her child, Aye Mar has accepted she will have to give up her baby to an orphanage in Myanmar, a country where single mothers are ostracised and deemed a "disgrace".