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    Myanmar public urges gas sanctions to stop military funding
    International

    Myanmar public urges gas sanctions to stop military funding

    Jakarta (Indonesia), Dec 15: The young woman in Myanmar decided to speak out when she realised that money from the company she loved was now in the hands of the military leaders she hated. She worked for Total Energies, the French company that operates a gas field off Myanmar's coast with a...
    Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US
    International

    Major outage at Amazon disrupts businesses across the US

    Washington, Dec 8: A major outage in Amazon's cloud computing network Tuesday severely disrupted services at a wide range of US companies for more than five hours, the latest sign of just how concentrated the business of keeping the internet running has become. The incident at Amazon Web Services...
    WHO says measures against delta work for omicron variant too
    International

    WHO says measures against delta work for omicron variant too

    Manila, Dec 3: World Health Organisation officials in the Western Pacific say border closures adopted by some countries may buy time to deal with the omicron coronavirus variant, but measures put in place and experience gained in dealing with the delta variant should remain the foundation for...
    Barbados says goodbye to queen, transforms into republic
    International

    Barbados says goodbye to queen, transforms into republic

    San Juan, Nov 30: Barbados stopped pledging allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday as it shed another vestige of its colonial past and became a republic for the first time in history. Several leaders and dignitaries, including Prince Charles, attended the ceremony that began late Monday in a...
    Sweden
    International

    Sweden's parliament approves first female Prime Minister

    Copenhagen, Nov 24: Sweden's parliament on Wednesday approved Magdalena Andersson as the country's first female prime minister, tapping the finance minister who recently became the new leader of the Social Democratic party. Andersson was tapped to replace Stefan Lofven as party leader and prime...
    Video of missing Chinese tennis star posted online
    Sports

    Video of missing Chinese tennis star posted online

    Beijing, Nov 21: The editor of a Communist Party newspaper posted a video online that he said shows missing tennis star Peng Shuai watching a match Sunday, as the ruling party tried to quell fears abroad while suppressing information in China about Peng after she accused a senior leader of sexual...
    Roadside bomb in Afghanistan
    International

    Roadside bomb in Afghanistan's capital wounds two people

    Kabul, Nov 15: A roadside bomb blew up on a busy avenue in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, wounding two people, police said. The bomb detonated as a taxi was passing by in the Kota-e Sangi district of western Kabul. The Taliban spokesman for Kabul police, who goes by a single name Mobin,...
    Ex-US diplomat says Myanmar freed jailed American journalist
    International

    Ex-US diplomat says Myanmar freed jailed American journalist

    Bangkok, Nov 15: Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson says American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. Richardson said in a statement Monday that Fenster had been released from prison and handed over to him in Myanmar and would be soon on his way...
    Myanmar court sentences US journalist to 11 years in jail
    International

    Myanmar court sentences US journalist to 11 years in jail

    Bangkok, Nov 12: A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained US journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. Fenster, the managing editor of the online...
    Climate finance isn
    National

    Climate finance isn't charity, says Indian Minister at COP26

    Glasgow, Nov 11: India's Environment and Climate Minister says rich countries have "an obligation, responsibility, duty and a vow" to provide climate finance to developing nations and should deliver on an unfulfilled promise to raise USD 100 billion a year. In an interview Wednesday with The...
    Little time, but
    International

    Little time, but 'mountain to climb' at UN climate talks

    Glasgow, Nov 10: The United Nations climate summit in Glasgow has made "some serious toddler steps" toward cutting emissions but far from the giant leaps needed to limit global warming to internationally accepted goals, two new analyses and top officials have said. And time is running out on the...
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