At least 50 people were killed when security forces opened fire on pro-democracy protesters in various parts of Myanmar on Saturday, the Myanmar Now news portal said.
It said the dead included 13 killed in the country’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, 9 in the nearby region of Sagaing and 7 in the commercial capital Yangon.
The former chief of US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said he was offering “only an opinion. Washington: The former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the coronavirus escaped from a laboratory in China, he said in an interview that aired Friday. Robert Redfield, who served in the top […]
Iran president Hassan Rouhani (R) welcomes Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Tehran: Iran and China signed a 25-year “strategic cooperation pact” Saturday in the latest expansion of Beijing’s flagship trillion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative as the US rivals move closer together. Negotiations for the deal, launched five years ago, sparked controversy in Iran last year […]
