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From India, Myanmar’s ousted lawmakers work on challenging junta

By Reuters Staff, published by Swissinfo.ch IN A spartan hillside room in India furnished only with a thin sleeping mat, the Myanmar member of parliament spends much of his days attentively listening to Zoom conference calls and tapping away messages on his smartphone. The short, soft-spoken man is among roughly a dozen ousted Myanmar MPs

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Health

Daily Covid count climbs again to 1,543

THE Public Health Ministry said at 11.30 a.m. this morning (April 15) that there were 1,543 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours with this being the highest daily total since the start of the outbreak in January last year and shatters yesterday’s record of 1,335 cases, Sanook.com said. Dr. Chawetsan Namwath, acting head

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