69 h. ago Myanmar election enters final stage amid airstrikes and exclusions

Third and final phase of voting taking place on Sunday in village just days after military airstrike killed 21 peoplePolling stations open on Sunday for the final stage of Myanmar’s three-phase election, a one-sided vote that has been widely derided as a sham, with politicians jailed, the main opposition party banned and conflict raging across parts of the country.Junta leader Min Aung Hlaing has defended the vote as “free and fair”, presenting it as a return to democracy and stability. The election is happening almost five years after the military seized power in a coup, ousting the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering a fierce conflict. The 80-year-old has been detained since she was ousted, and her party has been banned. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago US military says it struck vessel in eastern Pacific, killing two people

Since September, military has carried out more than 30 strikes against boats that it alleges smuggle drugsThe US military said on Friday that it carried out a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing two people.“Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” the military said in a statement. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump issues stern warning as he sends 'massive' fleet to Iran

Donald Trump has hinted that he would order military strikes on Iran after the tyrannical regime in Tehran killed hundreds of protesters demonstrating for greater freedoms

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5 d. ago Veteran shot dead in Facebook Marketplace meet up sent haunting last text to family

Three 18-year-olds and a minor were arrested and charged with murder after an ex-military member was shot and killed in a reported Facebook Marketplace sale gone wrong

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8 d. ago ISIS bride Shamima Begum 'could be free from Syrian detention camp in DAYS' as Kurdish

Ms Begum, 26, who was stripped of her British citizenship after leaving London to join the terror group, is currently held at al-Roj - a filthy, violent camp in north-east Syria.

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8 d. ago Real Sociedad steal a march on Barcelona to get city party started early | Sid Lowe

Carnival drums provided the backdrop to surprise victory over league leaders that was not just down to luck“There was a little magic in the atmosphere,” Pellegrino Matarazzo said. Real Sociedad’s new coach could feel it; he could hear it too, the sound of drums beating on every street of the city he has embraced and into the stadium that has embraced him back already. When he and his players arrived at Anoeta on Sunday evening, they entered through a guard of honour, a band of soldiers and chefs lined up in the rain, hammering out the club anthem and hoping. By the time they departed around midnight, following 35,346 supporters out into San Sebastián, it had actually happened. La Real had beaten Barcelona 2-1. Celebrations, his captain Mikel Oyarzabal said, had come a day early.This week is tamborrada, the San Sebastián festival where, at midnight on 20 January, the city flag is raised and marching bands parade through its streets in Napoleonic uniforms and cooks’ costumes grasping ...

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1 week ago Iran confirms protest hero will NOT be executed as Trump reveals Tehran told him 'the killing has stopped' after he threatened to take military action

Erfan Soltani, a 26 year-old Iranian man arrested on January 10 during protests, has not been sentenced to death, the country's judiciary said.

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2 w. ago Maxim Naumov makes US Winter Olympics team year after parents’ death in DC plane crash

US Figure Skating names team for Milan-CortinaNaumov’s parents were also OlympiansUS Figure Skating has confirmed the 16 athletes who will represent Team USA at the Milan-Cortina Games next month in Italy, including Maxim Naumov, who fulfilled the hopes of his late parents by making the Olympic team.Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, who were world champions in pairs figure skating in 1994, became coaches at the Skating Club of Boston. Last January, they were returning from Wichita, Kansas, host of the 2025 US championships, along with 26 others connected to figure skating, when their plane collided with a military helicopter, killing everyone on board both aircraft. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Body of Texas veteran suspected of killing as many as six women to be exhumed from his military grave

Fernando Cota, who was convicted of rape in 1975 and released in 1983, took his own life and was buried at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio

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2 w. ago Photos show Venezuelans mourning loved ones killed during US operation to capture Nicolás Maduro

Venezuelans gathered in mourning as the country’s military held a mass funeral in Caracas for dozens of soldiers killed during a U.S. operation to capture former President Nicolás Maduro.

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3 w. ago Cuba says 32 Cuban officers were killed in US action in Venezuela

An American military operation in Venezuela killed 32 Cuban officers over the weekend, the Cuban government said Sunday in the first official acknowledgement of the deaths

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3 w. ago US' Venezuela operation claims 40 lives as civilians say they 'lost everything' in airstrike

At least 40 people, including civilians and military personnel, have reportedly been killed during a US operation in Venezuela, with residents describing devastation and loss

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3 w. ago Venezuela live: At least 40 civilians and military personnel killed in US attack, top Venezuela official claims

Trump announced the military mission in the early hours on Saturday morning, confirming that a 'large scale strike' was carried out in Venezuela.

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3 w. ago US strikes three more narco boats as 3 people killed and others leap overboard to escape

TRUMP's military has struck three more alleged narco-boats, killing at least three people, while others jumped overboard. The boats were seen travelling in close proximity to each other in a video posted to social media. According to the military, the boats were in a convoy, travelling along a well known narco-trafficking route, and "had transferred...

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3 w. ago US military strikes three more alleged drug boats, killing 3 and possibly leaving survivors

The U.S. military says it struck three more boats that were allegedly smuggling drugs

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3 w. ago US military kills seven ISIS fighters in Syria after National Guard soldiers were ambushed

The US military announced on Tuesday that at least seven ISIS fighters were killed and a dozen members of the terrorist group were captured in Syria this month.

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4 w. ago Nearly 25 Islamic State fighters killed or captured in Syria, US military says

The U.S. military says nearly 25 operatives of the Islamic State group were killed or captured in Syria this month

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4 w. ago Two killed in latest US military strike directed by Hegseth on alleged drug boat

The strikes have killed more than 100 people in attacks that critics allege are war crimes

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4 w. ago Khaleda Zia dead: Bangladesh's first woman Prime Minister and widow of slain leader dies aged 80

Khaleda Zia was elected the first female prime minister of Bangladesh after her husband was killed in a military coup, and her rivalry with Sheikh Hasina dominated the country's politics for a generation

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4 w. ago US military says two were killed in strike on suspected drug vessel in Pacific

Two men killed in Hegseth-led attack on boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters, Pentagon saysThe US military announced the killing of another two men in “a lethal kinetic strike”on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in international waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday.The Pentagon released video of the strike, which brings the total number of known naval attacks on suspected drug smugglers to 30 since September, and raises the death toll to at least 107 people, according to US military figures. Continue reading...

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