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Hanoi, Sept 13: Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that two Reuters journalists jailed for investigating a massacre in Rakhine state were not convicted because they were journalists but because they broke the law. Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were each imprisoned for seven years last week for breaching the country's hardline Official Secrets Act while reporting

Geneva, Sept 13: The Myanmar Government granted permission to the United Nations inspection teams to assess dozens villages and townships in the country's Rakhine State, that were home to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims last year. A total of four teams from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and UN Development Program (UNDP) will spend two weeks in the northern state where the Rohingya

London, Sept 12: Begum Kulsoom, the wife of Pakistan's jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, died today in London after a long battle with cancer, her family said. Begum Kulsoom, who was under treatment at London's Harley Street Clinic since June 2014, was placed on life support earlier Tuesday after her health deteriorated, Geo TV reported. The health of the 68-year-old began deteriorating

Washington, Sept 12: US President Donald Trump has identified India along with 21 other countries as among the major illicit drug producing or transit nations. Other Asian countries identified as major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries are Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar. The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala

Washington, Sep 11: The United States threatened on Monday to arrest and sanction judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court if it moves to charge any American who served in Afghanistan with war crimes. White House national security advisor John Bolton called the Hague-based rights body "unaccountable" and "outright dangerous" to the United States, Israel and other allies, and

Dubai, Sept 9: The collapse of UN efforts to organise peace talks between the Yemeni government and rebels is likely to lead to an escalation in the country's war, analysts say. Long-awaited talks between the Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels linked to Iran were set to start Thursday but failed to take place. The Huthis, armed ribesmen from northern Yemen, refused to leave Sanaa to attend

Moscow, Sept 9: Supporters of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny protested across Russia against planned increases to the pension age on Sunday, a challenge to the authorities who are holding regional elections on the same day. The changes, going through parliament, have shaved around 15 percentage points off President Vladimir Putin's popularity and are the most unpopular government measure

Urbana, Sep 8: Former President Barack Obama issued a scorching critique of his successor Friday, blasting President Donald Trump’s policies and his pattern of pressuring the Justice Department. Obama also reminded voters that the economic recovery — one of Trump’s favorite talking points — began on his watch. Obama’s speech at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was delivered less than

London, Sep 8: Yemen’s Prime Minister Ahmed bin Dagher said that the Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths had presented some good ideas to resolve the crisis in the country but that he had “made mistakes with others.” Talking to Asharq Al-Awsat, bin Dagher said that he appreciates Griffiths’ efforts to find a solution to the crisis, and that the peace process in Yemen is complicated. Yemen’s

Kathmandu, Sep 8: China will allow Nepal the use of four of its ports, the Nepalese government said on Friday, as the landlocked Himalayan nation seeks to end India's monopoly over its trading routes by increasing connections with Beijing. Wedged between China and India, Nepal depends heavily on India + for the supply of essential goods including fuel and the use of its ports for trade with other