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Burma Protesters Launch ‘Garbage Strike’; Two Killed as Death Toll Tops 500

Rubbish piled up on the streets of Burma’s (also known as Myanmar) main city on Tuesday after activists launched a “garbage strike” to oppose military rule as the toll of pro-democracy protesters killed by the security forces since a Feb. 1 coup rose to more than 500. Security forces shot and killed one man in

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San Diego Teachers to Instruct Immigrants In-person as Schools Remain Closed

Teachers in San Diego are going to the city’s convention center soon to instruct immigrant children in-person, even as schools in the county largely remain online-only. About 13 teachers have volunteered to work with the minor immigrants, Roberto Carrillo, a principal at the San Diego County Office of Education, told KPBS. “We definitely want to introduce

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WHO Report Blames Animals Instead of Wuhan Lab Leak for CCP Virus Outbreak, Questions Unanswered

A report from the World Health Organization (WHO) said that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes COVID-19 likely spread to people via an animal, but WHO’s chief said the mission to study the origins of the virus did not adequately analyze other theories. “As far as WHO is concerned, all hypotheses remain on

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Ottawa Announces One Year Extension to Anti-ISIL Mission, but Offers Few Details

OTTAWA—Canada is staying in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant for another year. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced this afternoon that Canada will keep up to 850 troops in Iraq and the surrounding region until next March. The extension comes only one day before the mission, which began in October

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US Religious Freedom Chief: China Sanctions Will Not Silence Her Panel

Chinese regime sanctions against the chairman and vice-chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) won’t end criticism of Beijing’s oppression of millions of Uyghur-Muslims. “The Chinese government’s baseless sanctions on U.S. and foreign government officials who advocate for human rights and religious freedom in China are an attempt to silence growing international

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Trump Border Patrol Chief: 30,000 Illegal Immigrants Released Into US Since January

About 30,000 people who illegally entered the United States via Mexico have been released by federal officials into the country since January amid a surge of people being held in detention centers, according to a former Border Patrol chief. Mark Morgan, the former acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection under former President Donald

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Biden Administration Has No Immediate Plans to Lift Tariffs on China: US Trade Chief

Newly minted U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Sunday that the Biden administration isn’t planning to lift tariffs on Chinese goods anytime soon, although she signaled potential openness to trade negotiations with Beijing. In her first post-confirmation interview, Tai said any sudden moves to lift tariffs were

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SpaceX Starship SN11 Rocket Fails to Land Safely After Test Launch in Texas: SpaceX

An uncrewed SpaceX Starship prototype rocket failed to land safely on Tuesday after a test launch from Boca Chica, Texas, and engineers were investigating, SpaceX said. “We do appear to have lost all the data from the vehicle,” SpaceX engineer John Insprucker said in a webcast video of the rocket’s flight test. “We’re going to

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