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Myanmar has mentioned it "categorically rejects" claims made by Sky News in its undercover reporting of the civil battle within the nation.The report from contained in the nation claims to "deliver Myanmar to the world's consideration" however has been "found to be deceiving", the nation's embassy in London has mentioned in a press release. It comes after Sky News' chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his staff went undercover deep within the jungle in Myanmar to report on the battle that has been raging within the nation since a army coup in 2021.They spent a month in Myanmar with resistance fighters, medics and volunteers who're combating a battle the army regime claims is not taking place.Ramsay discovered the Myanmar army authorities has been concentrating on civilians i...

Russia seems to be making ready to implement a maritime blockade of Ukraine after earlier pulling out of an settlement permitting the protected passage of grain shipments from ports on the Black Sea, British officers stated Wednesday. ...

At least 9 international locations throughout the Mediterranean have been hit by wildfires, as hundreds of firefighters battled to extinguish blazes throughout the area.At least 34 individuals have been killed in Algeria, whereas three have been killed in Italy's southern island of Sicily. Temperatures topping 40C (104F) and parched floor have sparked fires in international locations on each side of the Mediterranean.600 firefighters rush to Portuguese wildfire close to vacation city; fireplace close to Dubrovnik 'detonates landmines' - observe newest updates Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant 1:11 ...

LONDON (AP) — Tens of hundreds of docs in Britain’s state-funded well being service will go on strike for an additional 4 days in August as their pay dispute with the federal government reveals few, if any, indicators of decision, their union mentioned Wednesday. ...

Efforts to tighten restrictions on ladies in Iran have reignited the protest motion that noticed the nation's streets flooded with livid Iranians for greater than half a yr.Calls to commemorate Mahsa Jina Amini, the Kurdish-Iranian lady who died in police custody final yr, have rocketed on social media within the wake of bulletins strengthening the nation's morality police. The hashtag which suggests "the anniversary of Mahsa" has been posted virtually 350,000 occasions since mid-June, in line with Sky News evaluation of information from Talkwalker, a social listening platform.Amini's demise prompted virtually every day demonstrations throughout the nation, with protesters calling for regime change in what has change into referred to as the Women Life Freedom motion or the #M...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador on Tuesday introduced a state of emergency in all of its prisons after a collection of violent incidents together with shootings and explosions occurred in one in all its most harmful prisons. ...

Rescuers are battling to save lots of dozens of pilot whales which are stranded on a seashore in Australia.Almost 100 washed ashore on Cheynes Beach - and on Wednesday morning, it was confirmed that 51 of them had died in a single day. Peter Hartley, from Western Australia's Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, instructed ABC: "We still have 46 whales still alive, and that will be our focus today - to get them back into the water and encourage them to head off into deeper water." Image: Pilot whales are extremely social animals. Pic: AP He mentioned that rescuers - alongside vets from Perth Zoo and marine fauna specialists - are "optimistic that we will save as many as we can".Specialised...

BARCELONA, Spain — Nearly six years in the past, the chief of Catalonia’s failed secession bid slipped secretly throughout the Spanish border to flee arrest and begin a life as a self-styled political exile. ...

One particular person has been killed and a number of other injured after a significant fireplace on a cargo ship off the coast of the Netherlands, the Dutch coast guard has mentioned.Boats and helicopters had been used to get the 23 crew members off the ship after they did not put out the blaze, the coast guard mentioned. The ship, the Fremantle Highway, is a automobile provider that was crusing from the German port of Bremen to Port Said in Egypt.It was crusing 27km (17 miles) north of the island of Ameland, round 180km from Amsterdam, when the fireplace began, an announcement mentioned.The ship had round 3,000 vehicles on board, in response to Dutch broadcaster NOS, and the fireplace in all probability began in one of many 25 electrical vehicles on board, the information s...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to go to China in October, a high Kremlin official introduced Tuesday. Russian information businesse...