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Opium crops in Myanmar expand to 10-year high
News, Poramet Tangsathaporn, Published on 08/12/2025
» Myanmar's opium cultivation reached a 10-year peak with "renewed cultivation risk" along the Thailand border, says the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report launched early this month.
DR Congo ex-rebel leader Lumbala's war crimes trial opens in Paris
AFP, Published on 12/11/2025
» PARIS — Former Congolese rebel leader Roger Lumbala goes on trial in Paris Wednesday over atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's bloody eastern conflict more than two decades ago.
Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown -- using Musk's Starlink
AFP, Published on 14/10/2025
» BEIJING - They said they had smashed them. But fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an AFP investigation can reveal.
Harrowing tales as Kony war crimes trial opens
AFP, Published on 09/09/2025
» THE HAGUE - Villages torched, young girls forced into sexual slavery, women abandoning babies to flee for their lives: the International Criminal Court Tuesday heard harrowing stories of atrocities allegedly committed by Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda.
Five dead as 'thunderous' bomb attack hits Colombian city
AFP, Published on 22/08/2025
» CALI, Colombia - Colombian authorities said five people were killed and dozens more injured when a truck bomb tore through a busy street in the city of Cali on Thursday, deepening the country's most serious security crisis in decades.
US puts sanctions on Myanmar warlord and militia linked to cyber scams
Reuters, Published on 06/05/2025
» WASHINGTON - The United States imposed sanctions on Monday on a Myanmar warlord, his two sons and the militia he leads, for facilitating cyber scams, human trafficking and cross-border smuggling, the Treasury Department said.
13 million displaced as Sudan war enters third year: UN
AFP, Published on 15/04/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Sudan's civil war has displaced 13 million people, the United Nations reported Monday, as the conflict between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters a third year.
Catching the world’s most wanted: the ICC’s impossible task
AFP, Published on 11/03/2025
» PARIS - The arrest on Tuesday of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, by police acting on an International Criminal Court warrant tied to his deadly war on drugs, marks a success for the ICC, which has been struggling for almost 23 years against a lack of recognition and enforcement power.
Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
AFP, Published on 10/03/2025
» PEKON, Myanmar - Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.
Myanmar detains 270 foreigners from scam compounds
Reuters, Published on 18/02/2025
» NAY PYI TAW — Myanmar authorities detained 273 foreigners from scam compounds along the border with Thailand on Monday, as a senior Chinese official visited frontier towns on both sides in a widening crackdown on illegal online operations.