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Earlier on Monday, Myanmar’s military staged a coup and detained elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi along with her ruling party politicians. The military declared it has taken control of the country for one year under a state of emergency. The intervention followed weeks of rising tension between the military and the civilian government over their November elections. The military ...

In an attack on the Turkish container ship Mozart, 15 sailors were kidnapped by pirates off of Nigeria’s coast. The event happened on Saturday in a very violent attack that was further from the shore than most of the previous attacks. The pirates killed one of the sailors in the raid. Authorities have identified the victim as a citizen of ...

Larry King, a lengendary award-winning TV and radio host who became a household name with his long-running CNN show Larry King Live has died at the age of 87. “With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host, and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles,” ...

Former US President Donald Trump finally seems to be waking up on the case of his upcoming impeachment trial. The former president hired Butch Bowers, a longtime Republican attorney with experience in election law. Mr. Bowers will represent Donald Trump when the Senate considers an article of impeachment, likely in a matter of days or weeks. The hiring comes after ...

China in it’s first move after Joe Biden’s swearing in as the 46th President to the US has announced sanctions against 27 outgoing officials of the Trump administration.  The Chinese administration says they want to cooperate with Joe Biden’s new US government. They announced sanctions against the “lying and cheating” outgoing secretary of state Mike Pompeo. With him are 27 ...