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AP confirms 5 previously unreported Myanmar mass graves

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BALUKHALI REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: The Associated Press has confirmed more than five previously unreported mass graves in the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin through multiple interviews with more than two dozen survivors in Bangladesh refugee camps and through time-stamped cellphone videos. The Myanmar government regularly claims massacres like Gu ...

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Taliban active in 70% of Afghanistan, study finds

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WASHINGTON: The Taliban are openly active in 70 percent of Afghanistan’s districts, fully controlling 4 percent of the country and demonstrating an open physical presence in another 66 percent, according to a BBC study published on Tuesday. The BBC estimate, which it said was based on conversations with more than ...

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Kabul attack latest: 14 foreign nationals and four Afghans dead after Taliban assault on Intercontinental Hotel

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Most of the foreigners worked for a private Afghan airline, says interior ministry   Fourteen foreign nationals and four Afghans were killed when the Taliban attacked Kabul‘s Intercontinental Hotel overnight on Saturday, Afghanistan’s interior ministry said. The number of casualties is expected to rise following a 13-hour siege that ended on ...

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Joy and hope in Liberia as Weah is sworn in

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    MONROVIA: To the cheers of a crowd fired by his promise to bring them jobs and prosperity, former football star George Weah was sworn in as president of Liberia on Monday, completing the country’s first transition between democratically-elected leaders since 1944. Weah, 51, took over from Nobel laureate ...

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