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Vessels believed to have departed from Myanmar in late June, with mostly Muslim Rohingya minority onboard
The United Nations has said more than 500 people are feared dead after reports of two large shipwrecks off Myanmar since late June.
The UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) and its refugee agency UNHCR voiced alarm in a joint statement at reports “that two boats carrying more than 500 people may have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days”.
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The acquisition advances the US ride-hailing firm's efforts to build a global presence in the food delivery business as it faces intensifying competition from rivals such as DoorDash, which has been expanding aggressively abroad
Bai Zhaodong faces the risk of deportation following pressure on Bangkok from Beijing over his reporting on the Chinese government, Reporters Without Borders and Safeguard Defenders, an Asia-focused rights group based in Spain, said in a statement on Wednesday
The latest escalation comes days after a fragile truce collapsed, raising the spectre of a return to full-scale war, with Iran once again threatening to shut off more regional energy exports
The screening would become part of annual testing for troops aged 30 and above, and troops could voluntarily decide whether to accept any recommended hormone replacement treatment if they were diagnosed with low testosterone levels.
According to Unicef, child poverty is highly sensitive to macroeconomic shocks.
The South Caucasus neighbours had been at intermittent war since the late 1980s, mostly over the mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh, before reaching a preliminary US-brokered peace agreement last August
India's Border Security Force (BSF), which is deployed along the Bangladesh border, has initiated a feasibility and technical study to erect the fence along the land border with Bangladesh
Both Moscow and Kyiv have been stepping up their attacks on key economic targets, with Ukrainian forces hitting Russian energy infrastructure, including oil tankers, while Russia has intensified its attacks on Black Sea ports in recent weeks
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