None of the five political parties that meet the criteria to take part in a general election in Myanmar can mount a challenge to the military’s grip on power, an opposition official said Tuesday, urging the groups to boycott any junta-led ballot.
The ninth anniversary of Russia’s annexation of Crimea is in March. During the invasion of the peninsula by Russian forces, many Crimean Tatars were forced to leave their homes, including Ernest Suleimanov and his family. They left for Warsaw and opened a restaurant there called Crimea in front of the Polish embassy for Russia.
In the May elections, a man who has been dubbed the Turkish “Gandhi” by many will provide what observers say is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s biggest electoral challenge.
On Tuesday, Imran Khan’s supporters and police clashed outside of his residence in the eastern city of Lahore, injuring a senior police officer. Khan was being sought for arrest for failing to show up for court hearings.
Nearly 10,000 residents of Myanmar’s central Bago region have fled their villages as junta troops continue their scorched-earth operations in an attempt to flush out local People’s Defense Forces and ethnic Karen fighters.
Most of the front lines in the Ukrainian war are different, despite the fact that the world has seen images of house-to-house combat in Bakhmut. The tiresome process of waiting for orders or an enemy attack wears soldiers out as they dig themselves into trenches or hide under the cover of trees.
Malaysian Michelle Yeoh made history on Sunday night by becoming the first Asian to win an Academy Award for best actress in a leading role, delighting her compatriots and fans around the world.
A Tibetan writer arrested by Chinese police nearly three years ago has been confirmed serving four years in prison for “splittism and spreading rumors in internet chat groups,” according to Tibetans with knowledge of the situation.
Religious minorities who live in the region are among the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the earthquake in Turkey in early February.
A public service video featuring a Uyghur actor who portrays a “black-hearted drug dealer” preying on Chinese women recently went viral in China.