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Myanmar military extends emergency for another 6 months

01-02-2025 NAYPYIDAW: Myanmar’s military has extended its state of emergency for another six months as it struggles to maintain its increasingly fragile grip on power, with fighting raging on multiple fronts across the country. The military-controlled National Defence and Security Council renewed the emergency rule in a meeting in the …

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Ahmed al-Sharaa named Syria’s transitional president

31-01-2025 DAMASCUS: Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has been named president for the “transitional period”, state media report, seven weeks after he led the rebel offensive that overthrew Bashar al-Assad. Rebel military commander Hassan Abdul Ghani also announced the cancellation of Syria’s 2012 constitution and the dissolution of the …

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Man who burned Quran ‘shot dead in Sweden’

31-01-2025 STOCKHOLM: A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Sodertalje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told media. Unrest broke out after Momika set fire to a copy of Islam’s holy book outside Stockholm …

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No survivors expected from Washington DC air crash

31-01-2025 WASHINGTON: Officials believe that all passengers and crew onboard American Eagle Flight 5342, which collided midair Wednesday evening with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport, were killed, and are pivoting search-and-rescue teams to recovery operations. “At this point, we don’t believe there are any survivors from …

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