Deadly violence as Myanmar security forces shoot into anti-coup protest
A police raid on a shipyard in Myanmar's second-largest city turned violent on Saturday when authorities fired live rounds at protesters gathering to stop arrests, killing two people and injuring several more, emergency workers said.
"Twenty people were injured and two are dead," said Ko Aung, a leader of the Parahita Darhi volunteer emergency service agency in Mandalay.
Some protesters fired catapults at police who responded with tear gas and gun fire, with medics and reporters saying both live ammunition and rubber bullets were being used.
Australia v Facebook: PM claims tech giant 'back at the table' after executive's apology
Executive Simon Milner apologised after Facebook banned access to health accounts before coronavirus vaccine rollout
Australia’s prime minister says Facebook is back at the negotiating table after the tech giant this week blocked news on its site in the country.
However, despite Scott Morrison saying Facebook has “tentatively friended us again”, the company has publicly indicated no change in its opposition to the proposed law requiring social media platforms to pay for links to news content.
Senior Facebook Asia-Pacific executive Simon Milner was on Friday forced to apologise after the company banned access to accounts run by government bodies and state health departments.
Putin critic Navalny loses appeal against ‘absurd’ jail term
The opposition leader’s appeal against his two year and eight month jail sentence was rejected in his latest court appearance
A Moscow court has upheld a ruling to jail Alexei Navalny, rejecting an unlikely appeal by the Kremlin critic against his two year and eight month sentence.
Mr Navalny was convicted earlier this month for supposedly hiding from parole hearings, including during the time he was recovering from nerve agent poisoning in Germany.
The case, widely viewed as politically motivated, hinged on a historical court verdict since overturned by the European Court of Human Rights.
Opinion: Africa's indigenous languages vs. colonial tongues
African nations need to cut their reliance on colonial languages and invest in local ones. This will remove barriers to education and help the continent keep its diverse identities, says DW's Harrison Mwilima.
Ahead of International Mother Language Day on February 21, I want to remind fellow Africans that the threat of language disappearance is extremely high on the continent.
Africa is estimated to have 2,140 distinct languages, or one-third of all languages in the world, despite only having one-seventh of the global population.
Some 100 of these are endangered. With the death of each language, a wellspring of knowledge is lost.
Trump ally Erik Prince violated Libya arms embargo: UN report
Confidential report finds Prince supplied renegade Libyan general Khalifa Haftar with weapons and foreign mercenaries.
Private security contractor Erik Prince, a close ally of former US President Donald Trump, violated a United Nations arms embargo on Libya, UN investigators have found in a report detailed by US media.
The confidential report to the Security Council, obtained by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and partly seen by Al Jazeera, said on Friday that Prince deployed a force of foreign mercenaries and weapons to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, who has fought to overthrow the UN-recognised Libyan government, in 2019.
Ingenuity helicopter phones home from Mars
Updated 1146 GMT (1946 HKT) February 20, 2021
The Ingenuity helicopter, sidekick and traveling companion of NASA's Perseverance rover, has checked in with a good report and is "operating as expected," according to the agency.
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