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The world's greatest chess players arrived in Berlin to compete for their chance to reach the final in the world's biggest battle of wits. The opening ceremony for the World Chess Candidates Tournament took place in Berlin on Friday. The ceremony was held at the Kuhlhaus Berlin, where the tournament will play out over the next two weeks, starting on March 10 and will last until March 28.
Havana is plunged into darkness by a countrywide blackout due to damage to its power network inflicted by Hurricane Ian, according to the state electricity company Union Electrica. IMAGES
Yangon, Jun 28 (EFE/EPA).- Clashes that have erupted across Myanmar in response to the coup on Feb. 1 have plunged the country into chaos and left hundreds dead and tens of thousands displaced, a nonprofit specialized in preventing and resolving conflicts warned on Monday.In a report, Crisis Group highlights the Myanmar military's (known as the Tatmadaw) "heavy-handed, indiscriminate retaliation" to armed civilian groups which, using homemade weapons and hunting rifles, have caused "significant casualties on the security forces."The security forces have used heavy artillery, airstrikes and helicopter gunships "in indiscriminate attacks on populated areas" in various regions of the country, including the western town of Mindat in Chin state and towns in the eastern Kayin state. (Camera: ARCHIVE).ARCHIVE FOOTAGE OF THE SITUATION IN YANGON, MYANMAR, AFTER MILITARY COUP.
Mandalay, Apr 15 (EFE/EPA).- Myanmar security forces opened fire Thursday at a demonstration of medical personnel in Mandalay and detained about 20 people in a new day of protests against the military junta that seized power during the Feb. 1 coup, the local press reported. According to data from the Association for the Assistance of Political Prisoners, at least 714 people have died due to the military repression, while more than 3,000 people have been detained, including the leader of the deposed government Aung San Suu Kyi.The Myanmar Army justifies the coup on alleged electoral fraud in November’s elections, in which Suu Kyi's party won a landslide victory, as it did in 2015, with the endorsement of international observers. (Camera: STRINGER). SHOT LIST: A FUNERAL OF A MUSLIM MAN KILLED DURING ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN MANDALAY, MYANMAR.
Mandalay, Apr 1 (EFE/EPA). Myanmar's military junta has declared a month-long unilateral ceasefire with ethnic armed groups as at least 20 soldiers were killed in a clash with the Kachin Independence Army and a UN envoy warned of the possibility of "civil war at an unprecedented scale." (Camera: STRINGER).SHOT LIST: PROTESTS IN MANDALAY, MYANMAR.
US President Joe Biden calls on Myanmar's military to "relinquish power" in the Southeast Asian nation and release the government officials and activists detained in this week's coup. "There can be no doubt: in a democracy, force should never seek to overrule the will of the people or attempt to erase the outcome of a credible election," Biden says in his first major foreign policy speech as president. SOUNDBITE
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