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Myanmar’s Army Still Abducts Civilians And Forces Them To Act As Human Shields

The United Nations estimates that recent fighting has forced at least 2,700 people to flee their homes, with hundreds heading across the border to nearby China.

June 09th, 2014

By Global Post News Desk

Myanmar’s Army Still Abducts Civilians And Forces Them To Act As Human Shields

NAMHKAM, Northern Myanmar — In mid-April, government soldiers ransacked the home of Mr. Gam, here in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State. Then, the 55-year-old farmer says, they forced him and five other civilians to guide a battalion to a mountain outpost belonging to their enemy: an ethnic guerrilla force known as the Kachin

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Rohingya Muslim girl Afeefa Bebi, who recently crossed over from Myanmar into Bangladesh, holds her few-hours-old brother as doctors check her mother Yasmeen Ara at a community hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. The family crossed into Bangladesh on Sept. 3. Recent violence in Myanmar has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to seek refuge across the border in Bangladesh. But Rohingya have been fleeing persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar for decades, and many who have made it to safety in other countries still face a precarious existence. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Israeli Weapons Used in Genocide Against Rohingya Muslims

Lalmoti, an elderly Rohingya Muslim woman, lies in a sling as her son and grandson ask for direction to the hospital in Kutupalong refugee camp, Bangladesh, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017. Bangladesh has been overwhelmed with more than 400,000 Rohingya who fled their homes in the last three weeks amid a crisis the U.N. describes as ethnic cleansing. Refugee camps were already beyond capacity and new arrivals were staying in schools or huddling in makeshift settlements with no toilets along roadsides and in open fields. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Damning UN Report: Myanmar Generals Should Be Prosecuted for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

A newly arrived Rohingya Muslim Mohamed Rafiq, center, comforts his wife Noora Khatum and his children as they reach Teknaf, Bangladesh, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. He trekked to Bangladesh as part of an exodus of a half million people from Myanmar, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades. But after climbing out of a boat on a creek on Friday, Rafiq could go no further. He collapsed onto a muddy spit of land cradling his wife in his lap, a limp figure so exhausted and so hungry she could no longer walk or even raise her wrists. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Infographic: The Average American Produces More CO2 Than Any Other Nation

By a significant margin.

June 03rd, 2014

By Global Post News Desk

Infographic: The Average American Produces More CO2 Than Any Other Nation

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Afghan Civilian Casualties Rise As NATO Pulls Out

The number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan rose 14 percent last year, the UN said Saturday, as NATO troops draw down after more than a decade of war. A total of 8,615 civilian casualties were recorded in 2013, with 2,959 killed and 5,656 wounded, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan’s […]

February 10th, 2014

By Global Post News Desk

Afghan Civilian Casualties Rise As NATO Pulls Out

The number of civilians killed and wounded in Afghanistan rose 14 percent last year, the UN said Saturday, as NATO troops draw down after more than a decade of war. A total of 8,615 civilian casualties were recorded in 2013, with 2,959 killed and 5,656 wounded, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan's annual

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Ukraine On ‘Brink Of Civil War’

Former President Leonid Kravchuk urges parliament to “act with the greatest responsibility” as it debates an amnesty for protesters.

January 30th, 2014

By Global Post News Desk

Ukraine On ‘Brink Of Civil War’

Leonid Kravchuk, who served as Ukraine's first post-Soviet president from 1991 to 1994, urged parliament on Wednesday to "act with the greatest responsibility." "The entire world acknowledges and Ukraine acknowledges that the state is on the brink of civil war," he

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Turkey Destroying Al Qaeda-Linked Convoy In Syria ‘Significant Escalation’

Turkish fighter jets destroyed a convoy belonging to Al Qaeda-linked militants fighting inside Syria, the armed forces confirmed on Wednesday.

January 30th, 2014

By Global Post News Desk

Turkey Destroying Al Qaeda-Linked Convoy In Syria ‘Significant Escalation’

Turkish fighter jets destroyed a convoy belonging to Al Qaeda-linked militants fighting inside Syria, the armed forces confirmed on Wednesday. Small arms fire struck a Turkish military outpost late Tuesday as the Free Syrian Army battled Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters,

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Pakistan’s Christians Caught In Midst Of Crossfire

Eighty-four people were killed, and 200 were injured, in the bloodiest attack ever carried out against the Christian community on Pakistani soil.

September 30th, 2013

By Global Post News Desk

Pakistan’s Christians Caught In Midst Of Crossfire

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — There is little sign now of the blood and human remains that were strewn across the courtyard of the All Saints Church when two suicide bombers detonated their vests after Sunday mass last week. Thanks to a handful of churchgoers and sympathetic

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Russia: Syria Has ‘Material Evidence’ That Rebels Used Chemical Weapons

Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told Russian state TV, “We cannot but call the nature of conclusions drawn by U.N. experts… as politicized, biased and unilateral.”

September 18th, 2013

By Global Post News Desk

Russia: Syria Has ‘Material Evidence’ That Rebels Used Chemical Weapons

Syria's government has provided "material evidence" that rebels have used chemical weapons in their battle to overthrow it, a senior Russian diplomat said Tuesday. Speaking after a meeting with Syrian officials in Damascus Tuesday night, Russia's Deputy Foreign

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