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Police opened fire on Friday in the Myanmar city of Mandalay on protesting opponents of a Feb. 1 military coup, killing one person, witnesses and media said. The young man was shot in the neck and died, media said. Earlier in the day,…
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Senegalese police clashed with supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Thursday, leaving one person dead, a police official said — the first death in protests sparked by Sonko’s arrest the previous day. Sonko, leader of the…
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India’s ruling party on Thursday called a report which downgraded its status as a free country “biased.” The 2021 Freedom House report, which human rights activists say reflects reality in modern India, saw the country known as the…
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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard announced that the implementation of the "Martyr Soleimani Project" reduced the level of deaths due to the Corona virus in Iran by 90%. The Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard,…
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex said that his country will expand closures due to Corona at the end of the week to the area around the coastal town of Calais, after similar closures around Nice and Dunkirk. Castex added that the…
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The public prosecutor in Germany said that "murder charges have been brought against a Syrian who killed a German tourist and seriously injured another in a knife attack motivated by religious extremism last year in Dresden, eastern…
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A US State Department statement said today, Thursday, that the United States welcomed the European countries' withdrawal of a proposal to reprimand Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency. The statement pointed out that the United…
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On Thursday, an earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale struck New Zealand coasts for the second time in a day.
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An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale occurred in central Greece, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Authority said Thursday. The agency stated that the epicenter was 29 kilometers northwest of the city of Larissa, which…
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The UN rights chief said Thursday that her office had corroborated grave violations that could amount to “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, including by Eritrean troops. Michelle Bachelet stressed in a…
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