‘Never Forgot Me’: How a Monk’s Supporters Helped Him Survive Prison

The well-wishers were celebrating the return of the monk, the Venerable U Pyinya Zawta, 65, whom Myanmar’s junta had ...
Goshen News

Myanmar military takes delivery of helicopters and aircraft from Russia and China

Myanmar says it has commissioned new Russian helicopters and Chinese airplanes into its air force as the two nations continue ...
CNN

A Royal Tribe Under Threat

Aung San Suu Kyi has been a prisoner in her own home for years. Now she may lose it after a legal suit brought by her U.S.-based brother ...
The Dispatch–Argus

Trump appears to suggest the US will resume testing nuclear weapons for first time in 30 years

There was no indication the U.S. would start detonating warheads, but Trump offered few details about what seemed to be a ...
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Mackenzie Valley Highway construction could start in under 3 years says N.W.T. Premier

The N.W.T. council of leaders was in Ottawa this week to meet with the federal government. Premier R.J. Simpson says he is confident the territory will break ground on the Mackenzie Valley Highway ...
Access WDUN

Men from New York, Tennessee charged for alleged threats towards N. Georgia ICE agent

A federal grand jury has indicted two men for allegedly making online threats towards a North Georgia-based U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deportation officer and his wife. The U.S. Attorney ...
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N.W.T. premier talks to U.S. ambassador to Canada on how trade war is hurting the North

N.W.T.'s premier says a recent meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Canada was an educational one.Premier R.J. Simpson met with Ambassador Pete Hoekstra in Yellowknife on Sunday. Trump revives Canada ...
Reuters

More than 150 companies have ties to Israeli settlements, UN database shows

GENEVA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - More than 150 businesses, including Airbnb (ABNB.O), opens new tab, Booking.com BV, Expedia and TripAdvisor (TRIP.O), opens new tab, are operating in Israeli West Bank ...
The Columbian

Facing global isolation at U.N., a defiant Netanyahu says Israel ‘must finish the job’ against Hamas

UNITED NATIONS — Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that his nation “must finish the job” against ...
PBS

Drug enforcement is rarely a focus of the U.N. General Assembly. This year is different

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world, an underground river that crisscrosses borders and continents and spills over into ...
America Magazine

Global Catholic charity head brings the plight of the poor to the U.N.

A Catholic Relief Services worker is pictured in a file photo helping a young woman at a food distribution area in Marojela village, located in the Marolinta commune in southern Madagascar's Beloha ...