Myanmar military says drone attack by ethnic armed groups in northeast destroyed about 120 trucks | AP News

Myanmar military says drone attack by ethnic armed groups in northeast destroyed about 120 trucks | AP News

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar ’s military-controlled government said Thursday that almost half of more than 250 cargo trucks stranded by fighting against ethnic minority armed groups near the northeastern border with China have been destroyed in a fire caused by bombs dropped by drones.Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, spokesperson of the ruling military council, said

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French military to contribute 15,000 soldiers to massive security operation for Paris Olympics | AP News

French military to contribute 15,000 soldiers to massive security operation for Paris Olympics | AP News

PARIS (AP) — France’s military is planning to contribute 15,000 soldiers to the massive security operation for next year’s Paris Olympics, an army general involved in the preparations said Thursday.The bulk of the military force — nearly 10,000 troops — will be deployed in the Paris region, where most Olympic events will be concentrated, said

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5 killed, including 2 police officers, in an ambush in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca | AP News

5 killed, including 2 police officers, in an ambush in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca | AP News

MEXICO CITY (AP) — At least two police officers and three civilians were shot dead in an ambush in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, authorities said Thursday.The ambush took place Wednesday afternoon near a bird sanctuary in the Mixteca region, the latest in an escalating dispute between two local towns.Investigative police officers and local

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Prosecutors ask to effectively close case against top Italian, WHO officials over COVID-19 response | AP News

Prosecutors ask to effectively close case against top Italian, WHO officials over COVID-19 response | AP News

ROME (AP) — Rome prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to effectively close an investigation into Italian and U.N. health officials over Italy’s 2020 Covid-19 response without charges, on the grounds that no crimes were committed, a lawyer said.Rome prosecutors Claudia Terracina and Paolo Ielo asked to archive the investigation that had grabbed headlines given Italy’s

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Daniel Noboa is sworn in as Ecuador’s president, inheriting the leadership of a country on edge | AP News

Daniel Noboa is sworn in as Ecuador’s president, inheriting the leadership of a country on edge | AP News

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, was sworn in Thursday as Ecuador’s president, a role that citizens are demanding he uses to restore the public safety that drug cartels and other criminal organizations robbed them of at the decade’s start.Noboa’s term will

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