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Myanmar military torturing detainees to know whereabouts of opponents, say
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): Myanmar's military is using torture to extract information from detainees on the whereabouts of senior opposition members and activist leaders, an American journalist recently released from a Yangon prison told CNN.
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International Torture Day and Balochistan
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], June 27 (ANI): International Torture Day is in support of victims of torture, where people around the globe express their solidarity and support with the hundreds and thousands of torture victims and their families throughout the world, who are also suffering in trauma.
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Three employees of international medical charity killed in Ethiopia's Tigr
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Nairobi [Kenya], June 26 (ANI): Three employees of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation of French origin, were killed in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region on Friday, confirmed the organisation in a statement.
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Afghan forces retake control of 6 districts from Taliban as fighting conti
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], June 25 (ANI): The Afghan security forces retook control of the six districts from the Taliban as fighting surged in the war-torn country.
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Czech authorities confirm first death from tornado, number of injuries ris
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Prague [Czech Republic], June 25 (ANI/Sputnik): The powerful tornado that hit the southeastern part of the Czech Republic on Thursday left at least one person dead and some 300 more injured, the Czech Television reported citing the Ministry of Health and the Interior Ministry.
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751 unmarked graves found at site of former school for indigenous children
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], June 25 (ANI): A First Nation in Canada said that it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in the prairie province of Saskatchewan, the second such discovery here in less than a month as the country confronts one of the darkest chapters in
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China wary of security vacuum emerging in Afghanistan as US withdraws
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): China is growing increasingly concerned over a security vacuum forming in Afghanistan as foreign forces withdraw from the war-torn country.
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30 killed after airstrike hits market in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], June 24 (ANI): As many as 30 people were killed after an airstrike in Ethiopia's war-torn northern region of Tigray hit a market, according to eyewitnesses.
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China continues efforts to arbitrarily detain, torture people under RSDL c
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], June 24 (ANI): Almost eight years after Chinese President Xi Jinping introduced the draconian system - Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL) - Beijing continues to step up its efforts to arbitrarily detain, coerce confessions from, torture, threaten and mi
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Toronto Police busts international drug racket, USD 61 million worth contr
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], June 23 (ANI): Toronto Police on Tuesday (local time) seized drugs worth USD 61 million, in one of the biggest drug busts in its history and arrested 20 people involved in a sophisticated international drug smuggling operation, local media reported.
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Kerala govt moots helpline for dowry harassment after woman tortured to de
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram [Kerala], June 23 (ANI): Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has promised a 24-hour helpline to report any dowry harassment case in view of a suspected case of suicide by a 24-year-old woman from Kollam district, after being allegedly tortured for dowry by her husban
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Telangana: Three cops suspended over woman's custodial death
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Yadadri (Telangana) [India], June 23 (ANI): A sub-inspector and two constables have been suspended two days after a 45-year-old woman was allegedly tortured to death by the police in Telangana's Yadadri district.
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