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BELFAST (REUTERS) – Pro-British loyalist militants in Northern Ireland said on Friday (April 9) there had been a “spectacular collective failure” to understand their anger…
View More Northern Irish loyalists demand Brexit changes, call for end to street violence
YANGON (REUTERS) – Myanmar troops fired at anti-coup protesters on Wednesday (April 7), killing at least seven people and wounding several, media said, as a Chinese-owned…
View More Bloodshed continues in Myanmar as troops open fire on protesters
YANGON (REUTERS) – An Australian couple has been freed from house arrest in Myanmar and allowed to leave the country without charge, one of the…
View More Two Australians freed from house arrest in Myanmar
YANGON (AFP) – Ten of Myanmar’s major rebel groups threw their support behind the country’s anti-coup movement on Saturday (April 3), fanning fears that a…
View More Myanmar rebel groups back anti-coup protests, condemn junta crackdown
MOSCOW (REUTERS) – Allies of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Thursday (April 1) he had lost 8kg in prison before even beginning a hunger…
View More Allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny say he's lost 8kg due to sleep deprivation
YANGON (REUTERS, AFP) – Myanmar’s deposed leader, Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, has been charged with breaking a colonial-era official secrets law, her lawyer said…
View More Deposed Myanmar leader Suu Kyi faces new charge under official secrets law
NAYPYIDAW (REUTERS) – Opponents of Myanmar’s Feb 1 military coup call those killed by security forces the “Fallen Stars” of protests against the junta and…
View More 'Fallen Stars': Stories of civilians killed in Myanmar protests
YANGON (REUTERS) – Across Myanmar, opponents of the ruling junta on Sunday (March 28) mourned the killings of at least 114 people by security forces…
View More Myanmar mourns bloodiest day since coup after junta crackdown
BANGKOK – Myanmar on Saturday (March 27) witnessed the deadliest violence since the Feb 1 coup as junta chief Min Aung Hlaing declared that he would protect the people…
View More More than 90 killed in Myanmar in one of bloodiest days of protests
PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Hundreds of youth dressed in black and white gathered peacefully in front of Malaysia’s Parliament building on Saturday…
View More Youth protest in front of Malaysian Parliament over delay in lowering voting age
KASSEL (AFP) – Police used pepper spray to disperse people protesting against coronavirus curbs in the German city of Kassel on Saturday (March 20), in…
View More German police clash with protesters against coronavirus curbs
YANGON (REUTERS) – Myanmar security forces shot dead eight opponents of a Feb 1 coup on Friday (March 19), a funeral services provider said, as Indonesia sought…
View More Myanmar security forces kill 8 as Indonesia calls for end to violence
Molotov cocktails have been spotted on Myanmar streets as the military regime adopts battlefield tactics for use in urban Yangon. With about 200 of their…
View More Pulling Myanmar from the brink will be a fraught effort
NEW DELHI (REUTERS) – Students and staff at an elite Indian university on Thursday (March 19) demanded the reinstatement of a prominent academic, who they…
View More Students at elite Indian university protest as academics quit amid row over freedoms