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Dozens Killed As Explosion Sparks Fire in Iraqi COVID-19 Hospital

A fire that engulfed a coronavirus hospital in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad, claimed the lives of at least 45 people and wounded dozens more. An oxygen tank explosion is thought to have started the fire. Ibn al-Khatib hospital, located in southwestern Baghdad, caught fire late on Saturday, prompting frantic efforts to evacuate some 120 patients, RT […]

Dozens killed in Myanmar’s worst day of violence since coup

At least 33 people have been killed after Myanmar’s security forces opened fire on peaceful anti-coup protesters in multiple towns and cities, in the worst day of violence since the military coup last month. Police and military have increasingly used lethal violence in an attempt to crush demonstrations, killing at least 40 people since the coup […]