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3 Myanmar nationals with bullet wounds cross into India

Mar 26, 2021

Indian police say three Myanmar nationals with serious bullet wounds have been admitted to a government-run hospital in India’s remote northeast after they crossed the border

Mar 23, 2021

Aid agency sounds alarm over children killed in Yemen's war

A child relief agency says children accounted for a quarter of civilian casualties over the last three years in Yemen’s grinding war between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government

Mar 23, 2021

Agency: 1/4 of civilian casualties in Yemen are children

A child relief agency says children constituted a quarter of civilian casualties over the last three years in Yemen’s grinding war between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and the internationally recognized government

Mar 21, 2021

Fleeing coup, Myanmar police refugees in India seek asylum

Several Myanmar police officers who fled to India after they said they defied army orders to shoot opponents of last month’s coup are urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to not repatriate them and provide them asylum on humanitarian grounds

Mar 20, 2021

Turkey withdraws from European treaty protecting women

Turkey has withdrawn from a European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first country to sign and which bears the name of its largest city

Mar 19, 2021

Fleeing Myanmar policemen defy army order to kill protesters

A group several dozen of Myanmar policemen have crossed into India after last month's coup in their country

Mar 17, 2021

Egyptian activist sentenced to 18 months for 'fake news'

An Egyptian court has convicted a prominent human rights activist of spreading false news and insulting a police officer, sentencing her to 18 months in prison

Migrant community: Fire at Yemen hangar on Sunday killed 44

Mar 10, 2021

The head of the Eritrean community in Yemen says that a fire that earlier this week tore through an overcrowded detention center for migrants in the country's rebel-held capital killed at least 44 people

Mar 4, 2021

At least 7 Myanmar policemen cross into India seeking refuge

Officials in northeastern India say they have detained at least seven Myanmar policemen who entered India seeking refuge after the country’s powerful military ousted the elected government in a coup

Mar 4, 2021

3 Myanmar policemen cross into India seeking refuge

Police in India’s northeastern Mizoram state say they have detained three Myanmar policemen who entered India seeking refuge, a month after the country’s powerful military ousted the elected government in a coup