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Myanmar's military toppled the country's government on February 1 and seized power for one year, detaining top political figures, including de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President U Win Myint. The coup sparked protests and other acts of civil disobedience, leading to the deaths of hundreds in military crackdown. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wkw7ib

Police in Orange, California, south of Los Angeles, reported a shooting on Wednesday with "multiple victims at the scene including fatalities," but said the situation has been "stabilized" with no further threat to the public. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mdQYPB

The 43-year-old leader has been under fire from political opponents and many health experts in recent weeks as the rampant virus left hospitals in hotspots such as Paris overwhelmed. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fsKdbr

Seven pro-democracy advocates were convicted Thursday for organizing and participating in an unlawful assembly during massive anti-government protests in 2019, as Hong Kong continues its crackdown on dissent. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ucQdsO

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"It's time to build our economy from the bottom up and from the middle out, not the top down. That hasn't worked very well," Biden said. "For the economy overall, it hasn't worked because Wall Street didn't build this country. You, the great middle class, built this country," he said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u5B5NU

More than 520 people have died in daily demonstrations since the military overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1, halting Myanmar's decade-old experiment in democracy. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PNmBDG

Covid-19 was the primary or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths in the United States last year, with a particularly high toll among the elderly, according to a government report released on Wednesday. The Covid-19 mortality rate made it the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 after heart disease and cancer, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analysis found. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39xyHaT

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny declared a hunger strike on Wednesday in an attempt to force the prison holding him outside Moscow to provide him with proper medical care for what he said was acute pain in his back and both legs. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u7C8Nm

Pfizer announced Wednesday that its Covid-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. ​​​Most Covid-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk from the coronavirus. Pfizer's vaccine is authorized for ages 16 and older. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/31y4cNw

The foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador, Sergey Razov, after the sting operation late Tuesday caught the two in what police said was a "clandestine operation" to exchange the goods. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mboO7R

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed possible cooperation on vaccines with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a joint video conference on Tuesday, Macron's office and the Kremlin said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Pl40Pn

The agriculture oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement that the vaccine called Carnivak-Cov had been tested beginning October on dogs, cats, mink, foxes and other animals and was proven to be effective. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/31ywfN1

Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has not been seen in public since she was deposed by the military and detained in the early hours of February 1. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m7NUo3

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NASA has become the latest foreign organization to upset China by referring to Taiwan as a country, the latest in a string of quarrels the Asian nation has waded into over wording it deems politically sensitive. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m4kOGm

Chinese furniture maker Hong Jinshi first created a couple of pint-sized statues of former US President Donald Trump meditating in a Buddhist pose as a fun project for himself last year. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2O9pi1V

A report by WHO and Chinese experts released on Tuesday had judged the lab-leak hypothesis highly unlikely, saying the virus behind Covid-19 had probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary animal. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m73lgh

The Karen National Union, the main political body representing the Karen minority, said the airstrikes were the latest case of Myanmar's military breaking a cease-fire agreement and it would have to respond. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3uce8si

The WHO's chief, long accused of complacency towards Beijing, hardened his tone Tuesday, urging further investigation into a theory Covid-19 sprang from a laboratory leak. The director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also rebuked China for sitting on key data. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/39sAFJN

China has swung back with tit-for-tat sanctions of its own against several European Union and UK lawmakers, while sealing deals with Iran and reaffirming friendships with Russia and North Korea. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cyvauW

New York will join 14 other US states and the District of Columbia in permitting cannabis use after the bill was backed by both state chambers, where Cuomo's Democratic Party holds strong majorities. "For too long the prohibition of cannabis disproportionately targeted communities of color with harsh prison sentences," Cuomo said in a statement. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sFBshT

Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby said they suffered "physical and emotional injuries" in the riot they said was fomented by Trump, when he was in his final weeks as president and refusing to accept his election defeat. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2O8eOQd

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Three asymptomatic cases in Ruili, a city of over 210,000 people, were also recorded as Myanmar nationals, aged between 24 and 28, according to health authorities in Yunnan province. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rEOWJv

Citing the "changing global environment," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said it would partner with a weapons manufacturer to build the missiles in a plan that would create thousands of jobs as well as export opportunities. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PdDA29

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"We can't be silent in the face of rising violence against Asian Americans," Biden tweeted. "That's why today I'm taking additional steps to respond-including establishing an initiative at the Department of Justice to address anti-Asian crimes. These attacks are wrong, un-American, and must stop." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/31ym4rH

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The civilian death toll in the Myanmar military's crackdown on protesters passed 520 as armed rebel groups on Tuesday threatened the junta with retaliation if the bloodshed does not stop. ​​​World powers have ramped up their condemnation of the military's campaign against the anti-coup movement that is demanding the restoration of the elected government and the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rB24ze

President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his intent to nominate a "trailblazing slate" of judicial nominees, a field that includes Black, Muslim American and Asian American Pacific Islander candidates for federal courts and for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m6yzEd

The crush took place when thousands of grieving citizens tried to push their way into a stadium in the city to bid farewell to their leader, whose sudden death after a mysterious absence was announced on March 17. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rBjs6U

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The moves follow reports from Europe of rare but serious blood clots, bleeding and in some cases death after vaccination, mainly in young women. No such cases have been reported in Canada, with about 307,000 AstraZeneca doses administered. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3db6AiE

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For someone who built a reputation as one of Trump's most steadfast supporters, Pence is now viewed with suspicion among many Republicans for observing his constitutional duty in January to facilitate a peaceful transfer of power to the Biden administration, a decision that still has Trump fuming. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wbu3Jq

The "reforms" unveiled on Tuesday are the most dramatic overhaul of Hong Kong's political system since the city was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3swhbeC

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As town meetings go, the discussion was fairly routine, meandering from what Memorial Day celebrations might look like in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, to a federal grant application for bulletproof vests for police officers. But when the time came for the trustees in West Chester Township, Ohio, to deliver personal remarks at the group’s most recent meeting, the board’s chairman, Lee Wong, who is Asian American, did something unusual. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3w58jPr

The Ever Given had become jammed diagonally across a southern section of the canal, the shortest shipping route between Europe and Asia, in high winds early on March 23. Evergreen Line, which is leasing the Ever Given, said the ship would be inspected for seaworthiness in the Great Bitter Lake, which separates two sections of the canal. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m4n54d

Former US president Donald Trump stole the spotlight at a wedding in his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida over the weekend, using a congratulatory speech to mainly talk about himself and assail his successor. "Do you miss me yet?" a tuxedo-clad Trump asked at Saturday night's function, according to video posted on celebrity gossip site TMZ. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wb5tZa

In a new tactic, protesters sought to step up a civil disobedience campaign on Tuesday by asking residents to throw garbage onto streets on key road intersections. "This garbage strike is a strike to oppose the junta," read a poster on social media. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rzg0d2

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overhauled his government Monday, changing six cabinet members including the foreign, defense and justice ministers, as the far-right leader faced mounting pressure over a deadly surge of Covid-19. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u4TdYb

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"Boy, your greatest achievement is to have ruined the friendly relations between China and Canada, and have turned Canada into a running dog of the US. Spendthrift!!!" Li Yang, the Chinese consul-general in Rio de Janeiro, tweeted on Sunday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QQPbVd

Kim Yo Jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's influential sister, slammed the South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday as "a parrot raised by America" after he criticised a missile test by Pyongyang. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/3w9kVoA