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More than 90 people – including boy as young as five – reportedly killed on one of the bloodiest days since coup
More than 90 people across Myanmar have been killed by security forces in one of the bloodiest days of protests since a military coup last month, news reports and witnesses said.
The lethal crackdown came on Armed Forces Day. Sen Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the junta leader, said during a parade in the capital, Naypyidaw, to mark the event that the military would protect the people and strive for democracy.
State television had said on Friday that protesters risked being shot “in the head and back”. Despite this, demonstrators against the Feb. 1 coup came out on the streets of Yangon, Mandalay and other towns. The Myanmar Now news portal said 91 people were killed across the country by security forces.
Kremlin says hourly wake-up calls part of a system of ‘discipline and order’
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The drama of the Alexei Navalny story took a shocking new turn this week, with claims the opposition leader was facing a “grave” medical emergency barely two months into his lengthy prison term.
In a statement relayed by lawyers on Friday, Mr Navalny said he was experiencing serious pain in his back and right leg, and was unable to walk. The condition had likely been provoked by long periods of sitting in police vans – and exacerbated by a torturous policy of guards waking him up every hour while asleep.
“It’s quite upsetting – I’ve got quite used to my right leg over the years and I wouldn’t want to part with it,” he said in signature deadpan fashion.
Native insects have few defenses against the invasive hornets, which can quickly eradicate an entire hive of honeybees. But experts in Japan say the "murder hornet" serves as an important part of the broader ecosystem.
Local authorities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada's province of British Columbia are waging an aggressive campaign to eradicate colonies of "murder hornets" that appear to be gaining a foothold in the region after arriving from Asia.
Since 2019, experts in British Columbia alone have reported at least seven nests or sightings of the aggressive insects, which are native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula and other parts of mainland Asia. They have been blamed for attacks on several hives of honeybees in which entire colonies were wiped out.
Suspected Islamist insurgents attacked a convoy of fleeing civilians, including foreign workers, as fighting continued on Friday in a northern Mozambique town that is near a number of gas projects, security and diplomatic sources said.
At least one person was killed and a number injured, according to the three sources and three organizations with employees inside a hotel where people have been taking refuge in the town of Palma.
Reuters could not independently verify the accounts.
New attempt to be made to free vessel as blockage causes huge traffic jam and forces ships to reroute around Africa.
The Japanese company that owns the giant container ship stuck sideways across Egypt’s Suez Canal said an attempt will be made to refloat the vessel by taking advantage of tidal movements on Saturday, as the crisis forced companies to reroute services from the vital shipping lane around Africa.
The MV Ever Given, which is longer than four football fields, has been wedged diagonally across the span of the canal – about 6km (3.7 miles) north of the southern entrance near the city of Suez – since Tuesday. It is still blocking the waterway in both directions.
Analysis by Matt Rivers, CNN
Updated 1547 GMT (2347 HKT) March 27, 2021
You can hear the frustration in the nurse's voice as he narrates the video, walking closer to an open window.
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