Five people who were delivering parcels to prisoners and three prison staff were killed when two bombs exploded around 9:40 a.m., News of Myanmar, an online news service sympathetic to the country’s military government, reported on the Telegram social media platform.
A spate of crimes victimizing Chinese workers at illegal online gambling businesses, including kidnappings and sexual abuses, sparked the crackdown and calls for the banning of even legitimate operators in the lucrative industry.
By area, Switzerland’s glaciers amount to about half of all the total glaciers in the European Alps
Cases of killings linked to belief in witchcraft are rare in Cambodia.
The report said the pandemic has "been used in many countries as an excuse to curtail basic freedoms and sidestep important checks and balances."
Indonesian security forces killed a suspected militant accused of beheadings in a shootout Tuesday in a sweeping counterterrorism campaign against extremists in remote mountain jungles, police said.
Win Myint was giving testimony at his trial for incitement in which the country's other ousted top leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is his co-defendant.
The country has ramped up its missile testing activity in recent weeks.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in was in Hawaii as the remains of 68 Korean service members were repatriated during a ceremony.
Biden announced a plan to double financial aid to poorer nations to $11.4 billion by 2024 so those countries could switch to cleaner energy and cope with global warming’s worsening impacts.
Two years ago, Guterres warned global leaders of the risk of the world splitting in two.
The two men were fatally shot by a joint team of military and police officers in Central Sulawesi province's mountainous Parigi Moutong district.
'I am a fighter, and I will always be a fighter inside and outside the ring,' Pacquiao, 42, said in his speech.
North Korea recently raised tensions with its first missile tests in six months.
Vice has since taken the article off its website and released a statement saying it was investigating the issue.
Human rights groups are protesting China's hosting of the games, due to start in February 2022.
ASEAN's members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
The women were forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese troops during World War II.
World's No. 1 smartphone maker unveils Mate 40 line of premium phones, a product release that comes at a crucial moment for company as it runs out of room to maneuver around US sanctions.
That was a dramatic improvement over the previous quarter's 6.8% contraction that was China's worst performance since at least the mid-1960s.
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