Category: 2. World

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On Sunday, the Southeast Asian nation of Burma staged one of its first elections since a military coup in 2021. That takeover reversed an imperfect but tangible democratic opening for the country, saw brutal crackdowns…

Amanda Nguyen, the Vietnamese-American astronaut who was part of the all-female Blue Origin spaceflight, has opened up about her depression after she experienced a “tsunami of harassment” after the trip, in which she became the first…

#Ukraine

Attacks kill civilians, cut heat as temperatures plunge

OCHA reports that between 26 December and 29 December, attacks across Ukraine continued to cause civilian casualties and widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, leaving parts…

The United Arab Emirates is pulling its personnel out of Yemen after Saudi Arabia’s bombing of an alleged shipment of weapons and vehicles it claimed had been going to a separatist group.

The UAE Ministry of Defence said it would withdraw its…

Tensions between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia over the future of Yemen and the imminent possibility of the declaration of an independent southern state have reached boiling point with Saudi Arabia in effect accusing the UAE of…

Police said the thieves had used the “quiet Christmas days” to rob the building on Nienhofstrasse in the Buer district.

Initial investigations suggest they gained access to the bank, and escaped, via an adjacent parking garage.

Witnesses have…

Protests and strikes in Iran over inflation and currency devaluation have spread from the capital, Tehran, to several other cities on a third day of unrest.

The protests began on Sunday after shopkeepers in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar staged a strike…

President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote on X late on Monday that he had instructed the interior minister to hold talks with what he described as “representatives” of the protesters so that measures could be taken “to resolve the problems and act…

Sanctioned Company Linked to Sale of Millions of Dollars’ Worth of Combat Drones to Venezuela

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is targeting 10 individuals and entities based…