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False posts claim '8 million Buddhists killed' in Indonesia anti-communist purges
Posts repeatedly shared in Myanmar falsely claimed Muslims massacred "eight million Buddhists" in Indonesia in 1965, completely wiping out Buddhism in the archipelago. Multiple scholars told AFP the posts, which shared unrelated photos, misrepresented mass killings in Indonesia in the mid-1960s which they said targeted communists and not Buddhists. The latest government data showed there were around two million Buddhists in Muslim-majority Indonesia as of 2022 .
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🔴 Live: Israeli strike kills at least 36 Syrian soldiers near Aleppo
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa formed a new cabinet on Thursday in which he will also serve as foreign minister, making an immediate ceasefire and Israeli withdrawal from Gaza a top priority. France will provide over 30 million euros ($32.41 million) to UNRWA, the embattled United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, this year to support its operations in Gaza, the French foreign ministry said. Israel has not received every weapon that it has sought from its US ally, in part because
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Easter travel – live: Storm Nelson brings bank holiday chaos as planes can’t land and flooding cancels trains
Journeys on popular routes such as the M25 are expected to take twice as long
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Cleanup begins in 'very long road' to recovery for Baltimore bridge, port
Cranes began arriving Thursday at the scene of the catastrophic bridge collapse over Baltimore harbor, as authorities shifted to a clean-up phase of the recovery and warned of extensive work before the major US port can reopen.Up the coast from Baltimore, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will plan to take on additional cargo to help blunt the supply chain impacts, the governors of those states pledged in a joint statement Thursday. caw/tjj
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Cosmic explosion to create bright ‘new star’ in night sky for several days
The outburst of the T Coronae Borealis star system is a once-in-a-lifetime event, occurring every 80 years.
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'Staying strong, still funny, still himself': What friends say about Evan Gershkovich, journalist detained in Russia one year ago today
It is one year to the day since Evan Gershkovich, a 32-year-old reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was detained by the FSB, dragged out of a restaurant in Ekaterinburg with a bag over his head and brought to Moscow's Lefortovo jail. Only then, Navalny died.
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Macron quips about cuddly 'wedding' pics with Lula
French President Emmanuel Macron joined social media users Thursday in their jokes that likened his cozy pictures with Brazilian President Lula to those from a wedding album."They are going to marry in the Amazon and have their honeymoon in Paris," joked one user on X, while others said pictures from the trip could make up a wedding album.
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