Myanmar

The next UN secretary-general will need to play a more proactive role in conflict resolution and peacekeeping missions, according to several experts

Indian computer expert Mohammed Muzahir was lured with a fake job offer to carry out mass scams targeting Westerners from Laos

The study of fossilized resin stones containing several creatures allowed scientists to recreate the interactions between various species of the distant past

Coined to define the Nazi massacres, it has become the most discussed word of the year. Leading world experts reflect on its legal, political, and moral significance amid the Gaza war

According to the plan announced by the State Department, applicants from countries with high rates of overstay will be required to post the bonds at the time of applying

A half-century after his death, an album of previously unreleased material reveals another side of the legendary artist

With a last-minute raft of new tariffs on dozens of countries, the Republican carried out his challenge to the globalized trade order with levies on exports to the US that will finally go into effect on August 7

Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela are some of the nations whose citizens will no longer be able to enter US territory

A federal judge has already ruled that the government violated a court order by putting eight migrants on a flight to South Sudan

The Russian government is hosting over 100 delegations at a security forum that has become a weapons showcase

The head of the UN children’s agency warns of a critical moment, due to more global conflicts and fewer resources for humanitarian assistance

Tens of thousands of cyber slaves are held captive in Southeast Asia’s scam compounds, working around the clock to defraud love-seeking victims through dating apps and social media

Young soldiers, professors and doctors are organizing at the Loikaw front, near the Thailand border, to win land from the junta that has governed the country since the 2021 coup, and to protect civilians

Pachyderm populations have been reduced by up to 90% except in the southernmost part of the continent

A study warns that these events, which claimed more than 570,000 lives and included the heat waves of 2022 and 2023, were more severe and likely due to global warming

A report concludes that, in 2022 and 2023, attacks against students and teachers increased by 20%, as did the military use of schools. The worst hit places were Palestine, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar

If all refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, and other people in need of international protection were brought together in one country, they would form the 12th largest in the world, with a population similar to that of Japan

Civilians displaced by the Southeast Asian country’s three-year civil war face a journey through jungles, mountains and rivers to flee the violence

The 14-year-old Rohingya girl sacrificed herself to save her family, embarking on a terrifying journey from Myanmar to a country she had never seen, to marry a man who rapes her nearly every night

A research by the Financial Transparency Coalition also accuses vessels from Russia, Spain, Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea of mistreatment of fishers

A member of the cabinet of what is considered to be the legitimate government of Myanmar – whose members are exiled and scattered around the world, as a result of the 2021 military coup – describes the partial pardon of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi as ‘pure propaganda’

The sentence given Sai Zaw Thaike appeared to be the most severe for any journalist detained since the military overthrew the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021

The slow accounting of casualties since the storm struck Sunday has led to uncertainly about the actual extent of casualties and destruction

Myanmar took the brunt of Cyclone Mocha on Sunday, while Bangladesh was spared a feared catastrophe. The powerful cyclone left at least 21 people dead and hundreds of others missing