Myanmar prisons nationwide released over 3,000 prisoners on Wednesday, according to junta-controlled media, but watchdog groups said that few of those freed were political prisoners.

#Myanmar ’s junta has begun implementing a conscription law to replenish its depleted ranks.

Arakan Army rebels began an offensive against a junta police outpost on the Bangladesh border on Wednesday as Myanmar military forces responded with artillery fire, residents told Radio Free Asia. rfa.org/english/news/m…

A strikingly narrow scope and a reliance on a controversial undercover investigation seem to have doomed the U.S. government’s case against a senior Cambodian official.

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Hong Kong has arrested 291 people for endangering national security in the near four years since the city’s first national security law took effect. They range from 15 to 90 years old, according to the Hong Kong Security Bureau.
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A person walks in flood water caused by heavy rains, with the Burj Khalifa tower visible in the background, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, which experienced what the government described as its largest amount of rainfall in 75 years, April 17, 2024.

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