International Desk

Nine-year high opium production in Myanmar, says UN

The UN reports that after declining for seven years, opium production in Myanmar suddenly increased. In 2022, it reached almost 795 metric tons, more than double the production in 2021, the year of...

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No safe place in war as Russian invasion approaches twelfth month

Bovary, Ukraine: Olga Prenzilevich sweeps up the debris along the road in a sleepy Kyiv suburb, next to a cordoned-off mound of charred vehicles and misshapen wreckage. But she can't for...

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