Bloomberg As the death toll among Myanmar’s protesters rose dramatically last weekend, military air strikes against one of the country’s largest rebel groups stoked fears of another problem: Full-fledged civil war. The Karen National Union, which controls an area in the southeast along the Thai border, confirmed on Monday that about 10,000 residents fled to a safe zone last weekend ...

Bloomberg Dozens of people were said to have been killed in a raid by suspected militants in Mozambique, as an upsurge of violence threatens billions of dollars-worth of energy projects in one of Africa’s poorest nations. The violence began March 24 when armed attackers described by the government as terrorists assaulted the northern coastal town of Palma, close to a ...

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is under pressure to join other major democracies in imposing sanctions on China over human-rights violations as he prepares for his first face-to-face summit with US President Joe Biden. Numerous reports of serious human-rights abuses against the Uyghur ethnic group in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have prompted several countries in the West ...