By AFP and published by CNA Moscow – Wagner mercenaries headed back to their base on Sunday (June 25) after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin agreed to allow their leader to avoid treason charges and accept exile in neighbouring Belarus. The agreement ended an extraordinary crisis – the threat that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s private army would
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Myanmar cell towers attacked after shadow government ‘war’ call
By AFP and published by Channel NewsAsia Yangon – Protesters have destroyed around a dozen military-owned communications towers in Myanmar, witnesses and reports said today (Sept. 8), after the country’s self-proclaimed shadow government issued a call for a “defensive war” against the junta. The country has been in chaos since the military seized power in
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