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07 December 2023
Nepal detains 12 for illegal recruitment of citizens in Russian army
Soldiers stand guard as they block a road near a prison in Naypyidaw. Photo: AFP
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11 December 2022
NGO Burma Campaign UK welcomes new UK Burma...
Burma Campaign UK has welcomed new sanctions against the Myanmar junta announced by the...
UN Photo/Evan Schneider Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Canada. Photo: Twitter
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11 December 2022
Indigenous leaders from Myanmar visit UN...
A delegation of indigenous leaders from Myanmar will be in Montreal, Canada this week for...
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11 December 2022
India-Myanmar Kaladan project to restart after...
India’s Kaladan project in Rakhine State will be restarted soon after it was suspended in...
Newsstand employees sort through copies of the latest Apple Daily newspaper before selling them to customers in Hong Kong early on June 18, 2021, after Hong Kong police arrested the chief editor and four executives of the pro-democracy newspaper the day before, raiding its newsroom for a second time in the latest blow to the outspoken tabloid. Photo: AFP
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10 December 2022
Human Rights Press Awards in Asia relaunches for...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass...
A COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province, on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
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10 December 2022
Challenging last mile for China's vaccine...
China is finally beating a retreat from its strict zero-Covid policy, but low vaccination...
A flag next to the Canadian Parliament Building is flown at half staff one day after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo of the Canadian Army Reserves was killed while standing guard in front of the National War Memorial by a lone gunman, on October 23, 2014 in Ottawa, Canada. Photo: AFP
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10 December 2022
Canada sanctions Iran, Russia and Myanmar over...
Canada announced Friday sanctions against 67 individuals and nine entities in several...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (Tuerk) talks to the media during a new press conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, 09 December 2022. Photo: EPA
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10 December 2022
UN experts alarmed over Myanmar junta’s death...
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed shock this week that more than 130 people...
Police charge baton on Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activities as they gathered in front of the party's central office in Dhaka on December 7, 2022, ahead of a BNP rally called for December 10 in an effort to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to resign. Photo: AFP
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08 December 2022
One killed, hundreds arrested as Bangladesh...
At least one person died Wednesday and scores were injured in the Bangladeshi capital...
Umar Patek leaves the courtroom in Jakarta, Indonesia, during his trial on June 4, 2012. Photo: AFP
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08 December 2022
Bali bombmaker released on parole from Indonesian...
One of the bombmakers in the Bali blasts that killed more than 200 people two decades ago...
Municipal workers clear the street a day after a car bomb exploded outside a police accommodation, in Muang district in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on November 23, 2022. (Photo by Madaree TOHLALA / AFP) Image used for illustrative purpose. Photo: AFP
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07 December 2022
Three dead after bomb explodes in Thailand's...
Three people died and four others were wounded after a bomb exploded on a roadside in...
Indian flag waves. Photo: EPA
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07 December 2022
India at 75: Rising power finding its place on...
Three-quarters of a century after independence, India is a nuclear power about to become...
This picture taken on December 5, 2022 shows activists holding a protest against the new criminal code outside the parliament building in Jakarta. Indonesia's parliament approved on December 6 legislation that would outlaw pre-marital sex while making other sweeping changes to the criminal code -- a move critics deemed as a setback to the country's freedoms. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)
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07 December 2022
Indonesia parliament approves ban on sex outside...
Indonesia's parliament approved legislation on Tuesday that would outlaw sex outside...

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