The wife of pro-democracy figure Kyaw Min Yu, sentenced to be executed on the orders of Myanmar’s ruling generals, says that if her husband dies he will take with him the beliefs he has carried throughout a life spent fighting dictatorship.
Monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in northeastern Bangladesh and India, stranding nearly 6 million people and killing at least 19 people in Bangladesh, authorities said on Saturday, warning the situation could worsen.
The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a bipartisan draft of their 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that sets annual policy for the Department of Defense. This version of the bill, which passed by a 23-to-3 vote in committee, calls for $857.6 billion in defense spending and for women to register for the draft.
Within the last 48 hours, Russian forces in Ukraine have renewed a push to advance south of Izium according to British defense reports. Meanwhile, fighting in the Donetsk region trapped over 70 miners underground this weekend. A surprise Friday visit from U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson showed continued British support for the embattled nation.
FINA, the global governing body of swimming, will vote on a new policy regarding transgender swimmers at an extraordinary general congress in Budapest on Sunday, Australia’s Telegraph newspaper reported on Saturday.
South Korean aerospace and defense company Innospace will be the first private business to send up a rocket from the Alcantara launch center in northern Brazil in December, Brazilian Space Agency President Carlos Moura told Reuters on Friday.
A lucky, and likely wealthy, person bid more than $19 million to dine with Warren Buffett, in the 21st and final time that the billionaire businessman auctioned a private lunch to benefit a San Francisco charity.
President Joe Biden faces his third week of declining job approval according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. However, this week’s Rasmussen Congressional poll shows that Republicans’ lead has narrowed by four points with 143 days to go until the midterm elections.
Republican senators on Friday asked TikTok Chief Executive Shou Zi Chew about reports the social media site had allowed Russian state-approved media content but barred other videos.
Vince McMahon, the only man to have ever run World Wrestling Entertainment or its forebear, the World Wrestling Federation, has not resigned but is nonetheless stepping away from his position as chairman and CEO while the company completes an investigation into his relationships with former female employees and alleged nondisclosure agreements into which he entered.