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Fireworks blast in California, Gaza aid scandal, Russia backs Taliban—Thursday evening's headlines span chaos from Esparto to ...
Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...
Cambodia has accused Thailand of escalating border tensions by imposing new restrictions that have blocked almost all land ...
Mary Lu Ja, 33, a displaced Catholic from war-torn Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, didn’t expect she would be stuck in a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) for half her life. The ...
Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, more than 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) above sea level, the Buddhist ...
The Himalayan village of Samjung did not die in a day. Perched in a wind-carved valley in Nepal’s Upper Mustang, more than 13 ...
By AFP Hundreds of protesting Myanmar tribespeople march up a hillside to a cavernous facility where a Chinese joint venture’s giant milling machines stand ready to grind up the rocks of their ...
The Padaung—a little-known subgroup of the Kayan ethnic group—claim around 3,000 members and a 381-year lineage in Shan State, in Myanmar’s east. They say Myanmar firm Four Star Company and a Chinese ...
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as ...
Myanmar’s civil war is unwinnable under the circumstances. Supporting Kachin independence could secure rare earth supplies, ...
Naypyidaw: An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck Myanmar on Thursday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) ...
Sagaing region is a stronghold of armed resistance to the ruling military junta, which seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.