Myanmar
Acting president of the National Unity Government (NUG), Duwa Lashi La, called for revolt in “every corner of the country” against the regime.
The people responsible for the atrocities that forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee from Myanmar's Rakhine state will be held to account, an International Criminal Court official said.
The remains of suspected American airmen killed in Myanmar during World War II will be repatriated to the United States on Tuesday in the first-ever ceremony of its kind in the Southeast Asian nation, US officials said.
The Arakan Army (AA) has in recent months mounted several attacks on security forces and officials in its struggle for more autonomy and rights for Rakhine people.
A woman widowed in the latest deadly attack by ethnic Rakhine rebels called on the army and insurgents to lay down arms and talk, as violence rips through the troubled western Myanmar state.
A secretive timber kingpin who died last year has been unmasked as the shadowy figure at the centre of a vast network that illegally sources teak, deliberately misgrades it to alter the price, and keeps stockpiles that eventually end up in Europe and the U.S.
On his release on Wednesday, Desclaux was charged again under the immigration and aircraft laws—the former holding a possible sentence of up to three years.