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Myanmar junta air strike kills 28, including children: ethnic armed group
Bangkok (AFP) Jan 19, 2025 A Myanmar junta air strike killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group said on Sunday. The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the past year, all but cutting off the state capital Sittwe. The Rakhine conflict is one element of the bloody chaos that has engulfed Myanmar since the military ousted Aung San Suu ... read more |
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Biden removes Cuba's designation as state sponsor of terrorismWashington DC (UPI) Jan 14, 2024 The Biden administration removed Cuba's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism on Tuesday, reversing the Trump administration's 2021 policy less than a week before President-elect Donald Trump takes office and prompting Cuba to release hundreds of political prisoners. ... more 
Israeli intelligence chief to head hostage release delegeation in QatarWashington DC (UPI) Jan 11, 2024 Israel is sending the head of the country's intelligence service to Qatar to engage in negotiations to free remaining hostages held by Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office confirmed on Saturday. ... more 
Decade after IS abduction, Yazidi survivor returns to IraqSharya, Iraq (AFP) Jan 10, 2025 Her family had lost hope she would ever return after Islamic State fighters took her and thousands of other Yazidi women and girls as sex slaves from Iraq into Syria during their reign of terror. ... more 
UN experts urge Biden to pardon Guantanamo prisonerGeneva (AFP) Jan 8, 2025 United Nations experts called Wednesday on outgoing US President Joe Biden to issue a pardon for Abu Zbubaydah, who has been held at Guantanamo for nearly 20 years without charge. ... more |
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US transfers two from Guantanamo Bay to Malaysia following Kenya transfer Washington DC (UPI) Dec 18, 2024 Two men held at Guantanamo Bay for 18 years in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people were repatriated to Malaysia on Wednesday, U.S. authorities said. ... more 
Rapes, torture, killings -- a litany of abuses blamed on Assad forcesParis (AFP) Dec 12, 2024 Bashar al-Assad's government has been accused of carrying out torture, rape, summary executions and other abuses since since Syria's civil war started in 2011. ... more 
Former prisoner revisits Syrian airbase ordealDamascus (AFP) Dec 11, 2024 The surrender of the Mazzeh air base outside Syrian capital Damascus by Bashar al-Assad's forces triggered a round of Israeli air strikes designed to prevent his former arsenal falling into the hands of Islamist rebels. ... more 
Syria chemical weapons: 'large quantities' and major questionsThe Hague (AFP) Dec 9, 2024 The world's chemical weapons watchdog has been probing Syria's stockpiles since 2013, encountering delays, obstructions, and suspicions that Damascus was not giving a full picture. ... more 
NATO chief says Russia, Iran 'share responsibility' for Assad crimes; Tortured bodies in hospital near DamascusBrussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 9, 2024 NATO chief Mark Rutte on Monday said Russia and Iran were complicit in the crimes of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and his fall showed they were "unreliable partners". ... more |
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US 'appalled' by alleged Russia use of banned gas in Ukraine
The Hague (AFP) Nov 25, 2024 Western countries and Russia crossed swords on Monday at a chemical arms control meeting, with a US official saying it was "appalled" by Moscow's alleged use of a banned riot control gas in Ukraine. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) a week ago said CS riot gas had been discovered in shell and soil samples, given to it by Kyiv. The samples were taken from the zone where Ukraine was battling Russian forces. The Hague-based OPCW's convention bans the use of CS gas and ... read more 
Chinese man sentenced to 20 months for Falun Gong harassment in USWashington (AFP) Nov 19, 2024 A 71-year-old Chinese man was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for taking part in a plot targeting the Falun Gong spiritual movement in the United States. ... more |
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Chemical weapons watchdog says banned gas found in Ukraine samplesThe Hague (AFP) Nov 18, 2024 The international chemical weapons watchdog said Monday that banned CS riot gas had been found in shell and soil samples provided by Ukraine from the zone where it is fighting Russian forces. ... more 
Thai military accused of beating Myanmar man to deathBangkok (AFP) Nov 14, 2024 A human rights organisation on Thursday accused the Thai military of torturing and killing a Myanmar man near the border between the two countries this year. ... more 
Syrians, Iraqis archive IS jail crimes in virtual museumParis (AFP) Nov 10, 2024 After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket over his head to cry without other detainees noticing. ... more
U.S. military judge rules government plea deals with 9/11 suspects are 'enforceable contracts'Washington DC (UPI) Nov 7, 2024 Plea deals for 9/11 alleged mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and two other suspects in the 2001 attacks on the United States to receive life in prison instead of the death penalty have been upheld by a U.S. military judge. ... more 
Poland alleges 'foreign agents' plotted using int'l parcel couriers to target transatlantic air trafficWashington DC (UPI) Nov 5, 2024 Polish authorities said Tuesday that a series of parcel-borne arson attacks against logistics providers in Poland, Germany and Britain were test runs for a campaign targeting transatlantic flights from Europe to the United States and Canada. ... more |
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