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Cambodia Opposition Leaders Receive ‘Outrageously Harsh’ Jail Terms for Alleged Coup Plot
A Phnom Penh court has sentenced nine senior leaders of the dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party to 20-plus years in prison for allegedly plotting a coup in 2019. The sentence, delivered Monday ... ( read original story ...)
Attacks on health care in Syria take ‘catastrophic’ toll: IRC
International Rescue Committee report shows the devastating impact a decade of war has had on healthcare in Syria. ( read original story ...)
Bellingcat Has Revealed War Crimes in Syria and Unmasked Russian Assassins. Founder Eliot Higgins Says He’s Just Getting Started
Eliot Higgins starts and ends his days like many others in 2021. In the morning, he homeschools his two children, aged six and nine, who have been mostly confined to their house in Leicester, England ... ( read original story ...)
Tucker Carlson: Biden’s Syria strike shows the folly of Establishment ‘counter-terrorism’
The official word, in case you weren't tuned in to CNN and MSNBC, is that America killing strangers in Syria was not pointless. That comes straight from experts who believe that Saddam had bioweapons ... ( read original story ...)
North Korea measures to stem COVID-19 worsen abuses, hunger: U.N. expert
Drastic measures taken by North Korea to contain coronavirus have exacerbated human rights abuses and economic hardship for its citizens, including reports of starvation, a United Nations investigator ... ( read original story ...)
Government okays 12 new SSB battalions to fortify Nepal, Bhutan borders, tri-junction area
Though the Union Home Ministry has denied creation of a new field frontier for the border force, it has allowed the SSB to create one out of three new sector -- responsible for the operations of about ... ( read original story ...)
Former Nepal PM thanks India for COVID-19 vaccines
Former PM Bhattarai, who is in New Delhi for his medical check-up, said he wanted to thank India on behalf of the people of Nepal. "Thank you Indian government for providing Covid-19 vaccines. Nepal ... ( read original story ...)
Yemen’s rebels say latest US sanctions will prolong the war
Yemen’s rebels say the U.S. sanctions on two of their military leaders would prolong the conflict in the improvised Arab country ... ( read original story ...)
Yemen’s Houthis say U.S. is prolonging war by imposing sanctions: TV
Yemen's Houthis said on Wednesday the United States' sanctions on two of their commanders are proof that it is prolonging the war and making the humanitarian crisis worse, the Iran-aligned group's ... ( read original story ...)