Myanmar world News API

Supported Countries - 165

Afghanistan

Albania

Algeria

Angola

Argentina

Australia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Belize

Bermuda

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia And Herzegovina

Botswana

Brazil

Brunei

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Cape Verde

Cayman Islands

Central African Republic

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros

Congo

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

DR Congo

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador

Estonia

Ethiopia

Fiji

Finland

France

French Polynesia

Gabon

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guatemala

Guinea

Haiti

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran

Iraq

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Ivory Coast

Jamaica

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan

Laos

Latvia

Lebanon

Libya

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macedonia

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Montenegro

Morocco

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nepal

Netherland

New Zealand

Niger

Nigeria

North Korea

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Palestine

Panama

Papua New Guinea

Paraguay

Peru

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Puerto Rico

Qatar

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

Samoa

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Singapore

Slovakia

Slovenia

Solomon Islands

Somalia

South Africa

South Korea

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Taiwan

Tajikistan

Tanzania

Thailand

Tonga

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Uganda

Ukraine

United Arab Emirates

United Kingdom

United States Of America

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vanuatu

Venezuela

Vietnam

Yemen

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Get world headlines from Myanmar with our JSON API.

🔑 Get API key for the Myanmar world News API

Country Parameter

The country paramter for the Myanmar is MM.

Some example queries:

Below is the search query to fetch random 100 news-sources of Myanmar.

https://newsdata.io/api/1/sources?country=mm&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

Some of the well known sources

Live Example

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make, and the JSON response you will receive, when you use the News API to get world headlines from Myanmar.

World Headlines from Myanmar

https://newsdata.io/api/1/latest?country=mm&category=world&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY

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The only people left in her village were mostly nephews and nieces whom she barely knew because they were children when she last saw them. “I felt like a stranger in my own village. I was restless because I was used to working hard everyday and now I stay home all day with little to do,” said 41-year-old Ayu, who previously worked as a domestic helper in Saudi Arabia before deciding to return home to care for her aged and sickly mother. To keep her mind busy, Ayu tried looking for a job but owners of nearby restaurants and shops prefer someone younger. With her experience, she could try becoming a domestic helper again in Indonesia, but it would mean having to live with a family in cities like Jakarta where demands for such services are stronger. She would also have to be away from her mother. Ayu’s struggles are not uncommon among returning migrant workers around the globe. Many returnees - particularly those who have spent an extended period of time abroad - find it hard to reintegrate into their community of origin, sometimes leading to issues such as depression and anxiety. Over the last five years, several organisations and migrant worker collectives have established support groups to make sure the stress and hassle of reintegrating back to their original communities are well mitigated. Meanwhile, returnees also have had to deal with limited job opportunities in their respective countries - the very reason why many become migrant workers in the first place. Governments in migrant worker sending countries like Indonesia and the Philippines have promised to address these issues by offering cash assistance, soft loans as well as entrepreneurship programmes and upskilling courses among others . While there have been success stories, experts noted that they are the exceptions rather than t he norm, adding that more work needs to be done to make sure these returning migrant workers do not fall back into poverty. SOMEONE TO TALK TO Faye Miranda left her three boys behind in Rodriguez, a municipality just outside of Metro Manila , in 2021 because her construction worker husband could not find work at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She went to Kuwait to become a domestic worker but just four months before her two-year contract ended, her middle child suddenly became gravely ill and had to be rushed to the hospital. “When I landed here on Mar 9, 2023, I went to the hospital straight from the airport. That’s when I saw that my son was already in a coma,” Miranda told CNA. “It was so painful to me. Because I went abroad for my children, to give them a good life, to provide them an education.” Miranda’s son, Jerome, was diagnosed with brain haemorrhage. He died at the age of 14 just four days after Miranda returned to the Philippines. Riddled with guilt for not being able to be there for her son, the 41-year-old soon fell into depression with much of her days spent in bed sobbing. One day, a friend reached out to Miranda, offering her to come to a sharing session organised by a group of former migrant workers. “Sharing my story with people who understand or have similar experiences helped me cope with the pain I feel inside,” Miranda said, adding that ever since she has been attending similar sessions and workshops organised by the group: Sandigan. The group was founded in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, when the Philippines saw an influx of returning migrant workers because they either lost their jobs or feared that they would not be able to return home as host countries began closing their borders. Similarly, support groups in Indonesia also began cropping up during the pandemic, particularly in areas with a large migrant worker population. “Some of these groups started as informal gatherings of friends and neighbours. Most disbanded after one or two sessions but there are those which are still active today,” said Wahyu Susilo, executive director of Indonesian-based non-profit organisation, Migrant Care. In Dadap - a village in the coastal region of West Java where nearly 80 per cent of its households have at least one member of the family who have worked overseas – such group began as an impromptu snack-making workshop back in 2020. \"A lot of people, be it returning migrant workers or those who stay in Indonesia, fell on hard times during the pandemic because there were no jobs both abroad or at home,” said Elly Kusumah, the coordinator of the village’s Migrant Workers’ Empowerment Group. “We have a lot of cassavas in our village, so why not try to turn them into chips? We have a lot of fruits, so why not turn them into jams?” As more former migrants participated in the programme , they began interacting more closely with each other. Elly noted that many were facing difficulties readjusting to life in Indonesia. Although Elly was never a migrant worker herself, she sympathised with their plights. “Some felt they were ridiculed by family members because they now speak with a Malaysian accent and sounded like Upin Ipin,” she said, referring to a Malaysian cartoon programme popular in both Malaysia and Indonesia. “Others shared about struggling to reconnect with their children after being away for so long. The problems varied.” Disharmony between migrating parents and their children left behind is just one of the many impacts of migration. Without the structure of a nuclear family and the love and attention provided by both parents, children sometimes misbehave, perform poorly at school or get into trouble. Meanwhile, marriages are also put to the test, as infidelity runs rampant both abroad and at home. CREATING MORE ENTREPRENEURS Lack of support and acceptance can be a challenge for returning migrant workers looking to reintegrate back to their communities. \"During the migration process, people learn and adopt new skills, experiences and norms that shape and enrich their lives,” the International Organization of Migration (IOM) wrote in a study published last August. “All these factors make it difficult for returning migrants to fit into their community of origin, as there is a rupture between who they are now and who they are expected to be by people who knew them prior to migrating.” One way to gain acceptance and support is to prove that these returnees can once again become a productive member of their respective communities. With the money he saved while working in Malaysia from 2002 to 2020, Ari Yulianto was able to start a business in his village in the mountainous region of East Java. “One of my friends inherited a mushroom farm but he wasn’t interested in continuing his family business. So he sold the farm to me,” said the 40-year-old Indonesian. For the first few harvest cycles, his crop failed as mould infested his mushroom farm. But he refused to give up, adjusting his farming techniques until he got things right. “Today, I’m making enough money to feed my family and employ two full-time workers,” Ari said, adding that his farm is able to produce one tonne of mushroom every month, earning him a profit of 15 million rupiah (US$913) monthly. That amount is roughly twice what he made during his migrant worker days back in neighbouring Malaysia. But not all migrant workers can save enough money to start their own businesses once they return home. Because of low financial literacy as well as peer and family pressure, many spend their pay unwisely making them unable to save anything or even fall into debt. According to a 2019 study by the IOM, 31 per cent of the migrant workers from Southeast Asian countries surveyed said they had no change in their savings upon returning from overseas while 21 per cent saw their savings decrease after their migration. About 17 per cent of migrant workers from Southeast Asia told IOM that they have accumulated debt upon returning home from overseas. Indonesian Minister for Migrant Workers’ Affairs Abdul Kadir Karding has promised more upskilling courses and soft loans to encourage former migrant workers to start their own businesses. “We are working with the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises to provide a low-interest business loan of up to 100 million rupiah,” Abdul said in a statement on Mar 6. “We are also working with several educational institutions and communities to provide upskilling programmes which can help former migrant workers to be more economically independent.” The initiative is still in its pilot stage and it is not known how many will benefit from it. Meanwhile, the Philippine’s Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) also has a similar programme. Since 2017, it has been providing grants of up to 20,000 pesos (US$350) for returning migrant workers as well as various entrepreneurship training for them. But the number of beneficiaries for these programmes is limited. In 2023, only 3,348 returnees benefited from OWWA’s cash assistance initiative while 12,248 participated in its capacity building training and seminars. The Philippines welcomed around 800,000 returning migrant workers each year. “The programme does little to alleviate poverty among returning migrant workers because it only provides a small amount of money to so few people,” said Marvin Rimas, the secretary-general of advocacy group Migrante Philippines. LONG TERM SOLUTION NEEDED And despite the well-meaning initiative, not everyone is fit to be an entrepreneur. Former migrant worker Ayu, for example, once dipped her toes in catfish cultivation, building two rectangular concrete ponds in her backyard as well as buying pumps, filters and other equipment before deciding several months later that it is not for her. “(Catfish) are actually quite easy to cultivate but there is a lot of competition and demand is not so strong . So I ended up just giving the fish es away to neighbours,” Ayu said, adding that she also tried switching to other types of fish like tilapia and goldfish with similar disappointing results. Ayu said she lost about 15 million rupiah in the fish venture, around a third of the money she saved from working overseas. She then tried her hands at opening a small shop selling drinks and snacks in front of her house. “The profit margin is pretty slim and barely enough to cover expenses like keeping the refrigerator running,” Ayu said. The venture is still running but with plenty of competition from similar shops in her village, she is unsure for how long. What Ayu said she needs is a steady job, but with Indonesia seeing a decline in the number of middle class which affects household spending such as hiring a domestic helper, the future looks bleak. Meanwhile, Angelo Jimenez - the president of the University of the Philippines and a long - time labour rights advocate - said migrant worker sending countries need to address rampant unemployment at home. Indonesia and the Philippines have some of the highest unemployment rate s in Southeast Asia, standing at 4.8 and 4.3 per cent respectively at the end of 2024. In contrast, Thailand had an unemployment rate of 1.02 per cent while Singapore had 1.9 per cent during the same period. Overseas Filipinos sent home US$40 billion last year, according to the World Bank, contributing to 9.2 per cent of the Philippine’s gross domestic product (GDP). Meanwhile, Indonesians abroad sent home US$11 billion last year, representing 0.8 per cent of the country’s GDP. “Remittance s from migrant workers have contributed so much to these countries’ economies that some governments spend more time promoting and encouraging people to work overseas than develop ing their own industries,” Jimenez said. “The most important thing for a country is to provide jobs so that migration becomes only a choice and not a necessity.” In the Philippines, Miranda is also looking for a job, which she believes will not only supplement her family’s income but also keep her mind away from the grief of losing a child. But with limited job opportunities available in her hometown, Rodriguez, finding work has not been easy. “People (in the Philippines) are afraid of hiring a former migrant worker because they think we expect a big salary. That is not the case,” she said. “They also want someone who is young and has degrees, diplomas and certificates. I don’t have those things.” To supplement the family’s income, Miranda has been selling snacks, earning just a few dollars every morning. In the afternoon, she goes downtown to look for work. “It’s tiring and rejection after rejection makes me feel like a failure,” Miranda said, adding that it sometimes made her fall deeper into a state of depression. “For now, I will keep trying. But if my luck doesn’t change, I might as well become a migrant worker again.”",
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      • "content": "WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday (Mar 30) with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program. In Trump's first remarks since Iran rejected direct negotiations with Washington last week, he told NBC News that US and Iranian officials were talking, but did not elaborate. \"If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing,\" Trump said in a telephone interview. \"It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.\" \"There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago,\" he added. Iran sent a response through Oman to a letter from Trump urging Tehran to reach a new nuclear deal, saying its policy was to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while under its maximum pressure campaign and military threats, Tehran's foreign minister was quoted as saying on Thursday. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian reiterated the policy on Sunday. \"Direct negotiations (with the US) have been rejected, but Iran has always been involved in indirect negotiations, and now too, the Supreme Leader has emphasized that indirect negotiations can still continue,\" he said, referring to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the NBC interview, Trump also threatened so-called secondary tariffs, which affect buyers of a country's goods, on both Russia and Iran. He signed an executive order last week authorizing such tariffs on buyers of Venezuelan oil. Trump did not elaborate on those potential tariffs. In his first 2017-21 term, Trump withdrew the US from a 2015 deal between Iran and world powers that placed strict limits on Tehran's disputed nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief. Trump also reimposed sweeping US sanctions. Since then, the Islamic Republic has far surpassed the agreed limits in its escalating program of uranium enrichment. Tehran has so far rebuffed Trump's warning to make a deal or face military consequences. Western powers accuse Iran of having a clandestine agenda to develop nuclear weapons capability by enriching uranium to a high level of fissile purity, above what they say is justifiable for a civilian atomic energy program. Tehran says its nuclear program is wholly for civilian energy purposes.",
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      • "title": "Trump says 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine",
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      • "content": "WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Sunday (Mar 30) he was \"very angry\" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, NBC reported, marking a sharp change of tone as Washington seeks to end the war in Ukraine. NBC's Kristen Welker said Trump had called her to express his fury over Putin questioning Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's future as a leader , something that Trump himself has done. Welker, on her NBC show \"Meet The Press\" on Sunday, quoted directly from an early-morning telephone conversation with the president. \"If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia's fault... I am going to put secondary tariffs on all oil coming out of Russia,\" Trump said. Trump told Welker that he \"was very angry\" over Putin's recent comments about Zelenskyy's credibility and talking about new leadership in Ukraine. The US president has been pushing for a speedy end to the more than three-year war since taking office, but his administration has failed to reach a breakthrough despite negotiations with both sides. Putin rejected a joint US-Ukrainian plan for a 30-day ceasefire, and on Friday suggested Zelenskyy be removed from office as part of the peace process. Trump told NBC that Putin knows he is angry, but said that he has \"a very good relationship with him\" and \"the anger dissipates quickly... if he does the right thing.\" Russia bolstered Warming ties between Washington and Moscow since Trump's return to office and his threats to stop supporting Kyiv have bolstered Russia on the battlefield as it pursues its floundering invasion. Ukraine has accused Russia of dragging out talks with no intention of halting its offensive, with fresh attacks on the northeastern border city of Kharkiv. Six strikes hit overnight Saturday into Sunday, wounding personnel undergoing treatment at a military hospital and killing at least two people in a residential building, according to Ukrainian officials. Russian forces also captured a village just seven kilometers from the border of Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region in their latest advance, Moscow said Sunday. The Kremlin's troops have not crossed the boundary of the region since their offensive began in 2022, but they have been grinding towards it for months in the hope of a breakthrough. No ceasefire Putin, in power for 25 years and repeatedly elected in votes with no competition, has often questioned Zelenskyy's \"legitimacy\" as president, after the Ukrainian leader's initial five-year mandate ended in May 2024. Under Ukrainian law, elections are suspended during times of major military conflict, and Zelenskyy's domestic opponents have all said no ballots should be held until after the conflict. Trump has himself had rocky relations with Zelenskyy, calling him a \"dictator\" and clashing with him live on camera at the White House last month. Zelenskyy, in his evening address on Saturday, sought to rally his country's allies against Putin. \"For too long now, America's proposal for an unconditional ceasefire has been on the table without an adequate response from Russia,\" Zelenskyy said. \"There could already be a ceasefire if there was real pressure on Russia,\" he added, thanking those countries \"who understand this\" and have stepped up sanctions pressure on the Kremlin. Both Moscow and Kyiv agreed to the concept of a Black Sea truce following talks with US officials earlier this week, but Russia said the deal would not enter into force until Ukraine's allies lifted certain sanctions. Explaining the secondary tariffs threat, Trump told NBC it would make it such that \"if you buy oil from Russia, you can't do business in the United States.\" \"There will be a 25 percent tariff on all oil, a 25 to 50 point tariff on all oil,\" he said, without giving further details.",
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      • "title": "Israeli PM Netanyahu vows to pressure Hamas after ceasefire proposal",
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      • "content": "JERUSALEM/CAIRO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Sunday (Mar 30) to step up pressure on Hamas in Gaza while continuing negotiations to secure the release of hostages and working to implement US President Donald Trump's \"voluntary emigration\" plan. He said the cabinet had agreed to increase pressure on Hamas, which says it has agreed to a ceasefire proposal from the mediators Egypt and Qatar. Netanyahu rejected assertions that Israel, which has resumed its bombardment of Gaza after a two-month truce and sent troops back into the enclave, was not negotiating, saying \"we are conducting it under fire, and therefore it is also effective\". \"We see that there are suddenly cracks,\" he said in a video statement issued on Sunday. On Saturday, Hamas said it had agreed to a proposal that security sources said included the release of five Israeli hostages each week, but it ruled out laying down its arms as Israel has demanded. On Sunday, the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday, health authorities in Gaza said at least 20 people, including several children, had been killed in Israeli strikes. Nine were killed in a single tent in the southern city of Khan Yunis, they said. Since Israel resumed its attacks in Gaza on March 18, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and tens of thousands have been forced to evacuate areas in northern Gaza where they had returned following the ceasefire agreement in January. Netanyahu said Israel was demanding that Hamas lay down its arms and said its leaders would be allowed to leave Gaza. He gave no detail on how long Israeli troops would remain in the enclave but repeated that Hamas' military and government capacities must be crushed. \"We will ensure general security in the Gaza Strip and enable the implementation of the Trump plan, the voluntary emigration plan,\" he said. \"That is the plan, we do not hide it, we are ready to discuss it at any time.\" Trump originally proposed moving the entire 2.3 million population of Gaza to countries including Egypt and Jordan and developing the Gaza Strip as a U.S.-owned resort. However, no country has agreed to take in the population and Israel has since said that any departures by Palestinians would be voluntary. EID IN GAZA Israel launched its campaign in Gaza after a devastating Hamas attack on Israeli communities around the Gaza Strip on Oct 7, 2023 that killed some 1,200 people, according to an Israeli tally, and saw 251 abducted as hostages. The Israeli campaign has killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to Palestinian health authorities, and devastated much of the coastal enclave leaving hundreds of thousands of people in tents and makeshift shelters. Sunday's strikes took place as Palestinians celebrated the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. \"We are here to celebrate the rituals of God amid the destruction and the sounds of cannons,\" said Minnatallah Al-Far, in Jabalia, in northern Gaza, where most of the area has been laid waste by Israeli bombardment. \"In Gaza, our situation is very difficult. Other people are celebrating these rituals in peace and safety, but we do them amid destruction and bombardment,\" she said. In Israel, Netanyahu has faced a wave of demonstrations since the military resumed its action in Gaza, with families and supporters of the remaining 59 hostages joining forces with protestors angry at government actions they see as undermining Israeli democracy. On Sunday, he rejected what he described as \"empty claims and slogans\" and said military pressure was the only thing that had returned hostages.",
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      • "content": "GENEVA: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies launched an emergency appeal on Sunday (Mar 30) for more than US$100 million to help victims of the devastating earthquake in Myanmar . The IFRC, the world's largest humanitarian network, said the country suffered extensive destruction in Friday's 7.7-magnitude quake near the central city of Mandalay, and needs were growing by the hour. \"To scale up support, the IFRC launches an emergency appeal for 100 million Swiss francs (US$115 million) to assist 100,000 people (20,000 households) with life-saving relief and early recovery support over the next 24 months,\" it said in a statement. With temperatures rising and the monsoon season approaching within weeks, affected communities need stabilising urgently \"before secondary crises emerge\", it said. \"This is not just a disaster; it is a complex humanitarian crisis layered over existing vulnerabilities,\" said Alexander Matheou, the IFRC's Asia Pacific regional director. \"Myanmar continues to face internal displacement and food insecurity. This earthquake exacerbates an already fragile situation. The global community must step forward to support a bold and sustained response.\" The local Myanmar Red Cross Society has mobilised trained volunteers to provide help, launching search and rescue efforts, the statement said. Volunteers have been administering first aid, providing pre-hospital care, distributing emergency relief items such as blankets, tarpaulins, and hygiene kits, and deploying mobile health teams.",
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      • "content": "Holding banners \"Manipulator, not a journalist,\" waving Serbian and university flags, and blowing whistles, student organisers called on citizens to join the demo in front of the offices of Informer, a television station with a tabloid newspaper of the same name. \"Informer has been spreading numerous lies and falsehoods for a long time,\" said Bogdan Vucic, a student at the Belgrade Faculty of Political Science. The nationwide wave of student-led protests against state corruption has raised pressure on the nationalist government of President Aleksandar Vucic . It was sparked by the deadly collapse of a roof at a newly-renovated train station in Novi Sad, Serbia's second city, in November. Since the beginning of the protests, pro-government media have portrayed student demonstrators as \"foreign agents,\" alleging they are funded by the opposition and plotting a \"coup d'etat\". Bogdan Vucic said one of his student peers had become a target of both the Informer TV station and the tabloid. \"They have published information about his family that goes against the most basic standards of decency, not to mention journalistic ethics,\" he said. According to the Press Council, the regulatory body that monitors newspapers, Informer violated the Serbian journalists' code of ethics 647 times in 2024. Many newspapers and channels in Serbia are owned by people with close ties to the government and regularly echo its talking points. Tabloid Kurir said students \"terrorise Belgrade.\" Informer alleged they are paid by US aid agency USAID and billionaire George Soros, a regular target of right-wing conspiracy theories. Another pro-government broadcaster, Pink TV, branded the protest movement an uprising supported by Kosovo, which broke away from Serbia in 2008. \"Such narratives contribute to making students enemies of the state, it creates a violent atmosphere and divisions,\" said Bogdan Vucic. \"That's why we want to put an end to what we could call propaganda, very dirty propaganda.\" Independent media under threat Informer is among the most widely-read newspapers in Serbia, with 57 028 copies printed daily. It is cheaper than its competitors at just 40 Serbian dinars (US$0.36) a copy. The group claims its TV channel is the \"most watched among cable networks\" in the country. Like other pro-government outlets, Informer benefits from public funding, through advertising purchased by state operator Telekom Serbia, and exclusive interviews with the country's leaders. Meanwhile, \"the situation for independent media in Serbia is increasingly dire,\" to the point where they risk disappearing, said Slobodan Georgiev, news director of television channel NOVA S. According to the media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, the majority of Serbian media derive their income from advertising and opaque public subsidies, both sources largely controlled by the ruling elite and dependent on the media groups' political alignment. \"Advertisers close to the government, as well as state-owned companies, completely bypass independent media,\" said Dragoljub Petrovic, editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Danas. 'Imbecile' Critical media and journalists are subjected to various forms of pressure, including vindictive lawsuits, public insults, and being labelled traitors. \"Independent journalists face relentless pressure, including direct attacks from the head of state and leading figures of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party,\" Georgiev said. In early March, the president called a journalist who had covered the protests \"an imbecile colluding with the demonstrators,\" prompting dozens of reporters from southern Serbia to refuse to cover the president's activities in protest. On Wednesday, a television campaign aired on national television labelling journalists from two opposition-aligned networks: TV N1 and Georgiev's TV Nova, \"enemies of the state.\" \"Unless there are real political changes in the coming years, it is likely that no media outlet will remain safe from the influence or control of President Aleksandar Vucic's cabinet,\" Georgiev told AFP. Earlier this month students blocked the headquarters of Serbian national television (RTS) in Belgrade for a day, after one of its journalists referred to them as a \"mob\". To reach people in smaller towns across Serbia, where residents often rely on state-backed media that echo Vucic's ruling party line, protesters have spent weeks criss-crossing the country on foot. Contacted by AFP for comment, Informer's editor-in-chief did not respond.",
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      • "content": "The Israeli military said troops had opened fired on ambulances after identifying them as \"suspicious vehicles\", in an incident on Sunday in southern Gaza that Hamas authorities condemned as a \"war crime\", reporting at least one person killed. The gunfire in Rafah city's Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood came just days into a renewed Israeli offensive in the southern area, close to the Egyptian border, after the military resumed its bombardments of Gaza on Mar 18 following an almost two month long truce. The Red Crescent in a statement accused Israeli authorities of refusing to allow search operations to locate the missing workers. \"For the seventh consecutive day, the fate of nine Palestine Red Crescent EMTs remains unknown after they were besieged and targeted by Israeli forces in Rafah,\" it said. \"We condemn Israel's deliberate obstruction of search efforts and hold it fully responsible for the lives of our team members,\" the statement added. The emergency response service said that \"initial reports from the crew at the time of the incident confirmed they came under heavy gunfire from Israeli forces, resulting in multiple injuries.\" The Israeli military told AFP in a statement that its forces had \"opened fire toward Hamas vehicles and eliminated several Hamas terrorists\". \"A few minutes afterwards, additional vehicles advanced suspiciously toward the troops\" who \"responded by firing toward the suspicious vehicles\", it said, adding that several \"terrorists\" were killed. The military did not say whether there was fire coming from the vehicles. \"Some of the suspicious vehicles... were ambulances and fire trucks,\" the military statement said, citing \"an initial inquiry\" of the incident. It condemned \"the repeated use\" by \"terrorist organisations in the Gaza Strip of ambulances for terrorist purposes\". The day after the incident, Gaza's civil defence agency said in a statement that it had not heard from a team of six rescuers from Tal al-Sultan who had been urgently dispatched to respond to deaths and injuries. On Friday, the agency reported finding the body of the team leader as well as the rescue vehicles, an ambulance and a fire engine, and said a vehicle from the Palestine Red Crescent Society was also \"reduced to a pile of scrap metal\". \"The targeted killing of rescue workers, who are protected under international humanitarian law, constitutes a flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime,\" said Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim. Tom Fletcher, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said that since March 18, Israeli air strikes have hit \"densely populated areas\", with \"patients killed in their hospital beds. Ambulances shot at. First responders killed.\" The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Saturday that at least 921 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel resumed its large-scale strikes.",
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      • "content": "ISTANBUL: Tens of thousands of people gathered in Istanbul on Saturday (May 29) to protest against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu , President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey has seen in more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands have heeded opposition calls and taken to the streets nationwide since Imamoglu was detained last week and then jailed pending trial on graft charges. Protests have been mostly peaceful but nearly 2,000 people have been detained . The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), other opposition parties, rights groups and Western powers have all said the case against Imamoglu is a politicised effort to eliminate a potential electoral threat to Erdogan. The government denies any influence over the judiciary and says the courts are independent. Tens of thousands waving Turkish flags and banners poured into the sea-front rally grounds at Maltepe on the Asian side of Istanbul for Saturday's \"Freedom for Imamoglu\" rally, organised by the CHP. \"If justice is silent, the people will speak,\" said one banner held aloft in the crowd. \"The trend of the economy, the trend of justice, law - everything is getting worse. That is why we are here. We say 'rights, law and justice' and we are seeking our rights,\" said one CHP supporter who declined to give their name. Last Sunday the CHP held a primary election to endorse Imamoglu as candidate for the next presidential election. That is scheduled to be held in 2028, but the CHP is calling for an early election, arguing that the government has lost legitimacy. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said this week that nearly 1,900 people had been detained since the protests began, adding that courts jailed 260 of them pending trial as of Thursday. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for over two decades, has dismissed the nationwide protests as a \"show\", warned of legal consequences, and called on the CHP to stop \"provoking\" Turks. Since Imamoglu's detention Turkish financial assets have plunged, prompting the central bank to use reserves to support the lira. The turmoil has sent shockwaves through the private sector. The government has said the impact would be limited and temporary. The bank said the economy's core dynamics were unharmed but it would take further measures if needed.",
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      • "content": "ISTANBUL: Hundreds of thousands of people protested in Istanbul on Saturday (May 29) against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu , President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival, sustaining the largest demonstrations Turkey has seen in more than a decade. A letter from Imamoglu was read out at the rally to cheers from the crowd. \"I have no fear, you are behind me and by my side. I have no fear because the nation is united. The nation is united against the oppressor,\" the letter said. \"They can put me in jail and try me as much as they want, the nation has shown that it will crush all traps and plots.\" Hundreds of thousands have heeded opposition calls to protest since Imamoglu was detained last week and then jailed pending trial on graft charges. Protests have been mostly peaceful but nearly 2,000 people have been detained . The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), other opposition parties, rights groups and Western powers have all said the case against Imamoglu is a politicised effort to eliminate a potential electoral threat to Erdogan. The government denies any influence over the judiciary and says the courts are independent. 'JUSTICE WILL BE SERVED' Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators waving Turkish flags and banners flocked to the sea-front rally at Maltepe on the Asian side of Istanbul for Saturday's \"Freedom for Imamoglu\" rally, organised by the CHP. Police imposed tight security around a venue where opposition supporters were gathering. \"If justice is silent, the people will speak,\" said one banner held aloft in the crowd. \"I am not afraid, and I will continue to resist. I call on everyone not to be afraid .... They fired me (from my job) but one day, justice will be served,\" said Gunay Yildiz, a former employee of Istanbul's Esenyurt district municipality. Bunyamin Turan, a retired teacher, said: \"When we look at the history of humanity, in all countries, all administrations, all regimes where there was such oppression, sooner or later, the people and those who resisted the oppression have won. The real owners of those countries won,\" CHP leader Ozgur Ozel, speaking at the rally, said millions of Turks were seeking Imamoglu's release and an election. He said the charges against the mayor were baseless and politically motivated, and the CHP called for a boycott of media outlets, brands and stores that it says are pro-Erdogan. Last Sunday the CHP held a primary election to endorse Imamoglu as candidate for the next presidential election. That is scheduled to be held in 2028, but the CHP is calling for an early election, arguing that the government has lost legitimacy. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said this week that nearly 1,900 people had been detained since the protests began, adding that courts jailed 260 of them pending trial as of Thursday. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for over two decades, has dismissed the nationwide protests as a \"show\", warned of legal consequences, and called on the CHP to stop \"provoking\" Turks. Since Imamoglu's detention Turkish financial assets have plunged, prompting the central bank to use reserves to support the lira. The turmoil has sent shockwaves through the private sector. The government has said the impact would be limited and temporary. The bank said the economy's core dynamics were unharmed but it would take further measures if needed.",
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