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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      • "description": "In Donald Trump’s America, it seems that cruelty to foreigners is the point of politics, says Mihir Sharma for Bloomberg Opinion.",
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I have frequent-flier miles saved up for a trip to the US this year, and – like so many others – I now believe that they will be better spent elsewhere. GROUNDLESS FEARS? Are such fears groundless and irrational? Perhaps. But the stories add up. We read about long-term residents sent off to prison camps in El Salvador, and researchers deported for attending a protest or writing an op-ed. That’s awful enough. But it’s even weirder to hear from innocent tourists who found themselves in jail for minor problems with their travel plans. Many of us know people who have had border officials demand their phones and cross-examine them about emails they have sent. It’s depressing to learn that European officials are now issued burner phones if they’re going to America. Or that the US Embassy in Tokyo has reminded Japanese travellers that they must include details of all their social media accounts over the past five years if they don’t want their visa application rejected. But it is positively absurd that we now ask friends arriving in the US to message that they’re safe after clearing security. NO RIGHTS AT ALL Going through the US border was already an intimidating experience, and now it has gotten terrifying. I may never feel as vulnerable, as exposed, when I stand in an immigration queue at an American airport, clutching the flimsy shield of paperwork I hope will protect me from the baleful gaze of the federal government. In no other country and at no other time is there so great a gulf between public principles and officials’ attitudes. A country founded on rights wants you to know at your moment of arrival that now you have no rights at all. Some testimony from those detained at airports is particularly concerning. Two German teenagers deported from Hawaii told the media back home that immigration officials fixated on the girls’ statement that they would continue to occasionally freelance remotely for companies back home while they backpacked through America. That was illegal on a visit to the US, they were told. What does that mean? Everyone knows that visiting the US means you can’t work there. But is it the case that someone on holiday there can no longer answer work emails, or edit a shared spreadsheet, or participate in a conference call at their workplace a continent away? Will I have to remove my work email from my phone the moment I land in the US? The number of overseas visitors to the US is already declining. There were 12 per cent fewer arrivals in March than in the same month a year earlier. The Financial Times found that the decline in travellers from some European countries was particularly sharp: Visitors from Germany fell by almost 30 per cent, for example. DAMAGE TO THE US Going after visitors in this fashion damages the US most of all. Companies will suffer if ordinary business travellers worry that they will have to answer confusing questions about what counts as “work”. Tourism accounts for 2.5 per cent of the US economy, and it will struggle if fear keeps away high-spending Europeans. And deporting students and researchers isn’t a good idea, either. America has led the world in science, innovation and industry precisely because it attracts the best people. Harvard’s Kseniia Petrova isn’t working on cancer detection any more, because she’s in a facility in Louisiana with her visa cancelled – for an offence, travelling into the US with biological samples, that is normally accorded only a minor fine. The US worked as the centre of research and innovation because, even as a visitor, you had rights there. 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Efforts by CNA to reach company executives in its Kuala Lumpur office were unsuccessful as telephone calls went unanswered. Industry executives told CNA that ConocoPhillips’ move was in part driven by the uncertain regulatory environment arising from the spat between Petronas and the state government headed by Premier Abang Johari Openg . The Sarawak government, which owns oil and gas firm Petroleum Sarawak or Petros, is demanding greater control over its resources. The industry executives with close ties with ConocoPhillips said that the company would now be focusing on its activities in neighbouring Sabah, where it already has operations. “The sentiment is that foreign companies are uncomfortable because they see that Petronas is under pressure in Sarawak and the oil company (Petronas) is often the joint-venture partner in many exploration projects,” said a senior executive of a Western oil contracting firm based in the capital Kuala Lumpur. According to ConocoPhillips’ factsheet on its Asia Pacific operations dated April 2024, it has exploration, development and production activities across about 2.7 million net acres in Malaysia. Net acres refer to the amount of leased real estate that a company holds, pertaining to its working interest. It has working interests in six production sharing contracts in Malaysia, and Petronas is listed as a “co-venturer” in all six contracts. The Salam-Patawali exploration block encompasses 300,000 net acres primarily in the Salam and Benum fields off southern Sarawak. “The company continues to evaluate the block and information from prior well results. A 3D seismic survey was acquired in 2023, and processing and evaluation of this data is currently ongoing,” it stated. Typically, under production sharing contracts signed with Petronas, private oil companies surrender rights to oil fields back to the Malaysian oil corporation should they decide to discontinue exploration and production plans. CORPORATE ESPIONAGE? Industry executives noted that the latest move by ConocoPhillips comes on the heels of another review by a foreign firm. Upstream Online reported in February that Thailand’s PTTEP – the exploration arm of its national petrochemical firm PTT – is re-engineering the Lang Lebah gas project off Sarawak shore “to improve the economic viability of the project”. PTTEP has a 42.5 per cent share in the Lang Lebah project, according to a factsheet on its website dated Dec 31, 2024. The development cost of the project has been reported to be about US$6 billion. Sources told CNA that PTTEP temporarily suspended the development of the project and has postponed the final decision until sometime next year. The spat between Sarawak and Petronas isn’t only hurting foreign investor sentiment in Malaysia’s robust oil and gas sector. It has also attracted allegations of corporate espionage. Former Petronas manager Khairul Akmal Jasni pleaded not guilty in a Sessions Court in Kuala Lumpur on Apr 18 to charges that he had attempted to leak highly confidential information in June last year on the national oil corporation’s inner workings to Petros. Cases of corporate spying are extremely rare in Malaysia and the allegations that Khairul had sought to share a document titled “Q1 2024 Upstream Business Performance, Operational & Financial” underscore the rising stakes in Sarawak's quest to break the national oil corporation’s monopoly. The latest twists are also putting pressure on Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim to press both Sarawak and Petronas to reach a solution at a time when the country is grappling with growing headwinds to the economy due to uncertainties from the US’ campaign on global tariffs . A senior aide to Anwar, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the premier had been briefed by top Petronas officials on the status of the dispute with Sarawak. “No change. Both parties are in a holding pattern with both holding firm to their positions,” said the aide. A senior Petronas official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, also confirmed that talks with the Sarawak government have not progressed. Sarawak is challenging the decades-old monopoly Petronas has held since it was incorporated under a parliamentary statute in 1974 known as the Petroleum Development Act or PDA. The PDA, among other things, decrees that the national oil corporation is the sole guardian of the nation’s hydrocarbon reserves. Sarawak, whose probable and proven reserves of petroleum represent 60.87 per cent of Malaysia's total and which accounts for 90 per cent Malaysia’s liquified natural gas (LNG) exports, is insisting that PDA does not apply to the state. Instead, it wants all the hydrocarbon reserves in Sarawak to be regulated under a colonial-era Oil Mining Ordinance 1958 that stipulates that oil and gas resources found within 200 nautical miles of its waters belong to the state. Both parties have tried to reach a compromise in talks that began sometime in April last year, but talks have broken down twice, with Petronas suspending all negotiations in December, according to executives from the national oil corporation. Requests to Premier Abang Johari’s office and Petros for comment were declined. SERIOUS ECONOMIC SETBACK ConocoPhillips is a major player in Malaysia’s oil and gas sector and its pullout from the Salam-Patawali discovery, which is currently at the feasibility stage, represents a serious setback for the Sarawak economy. It is unclear how much money ConocoPhillips and Petronas have spent on the Salam-Patawali field, known as the WL4-00 block, at this stage. Offshore Technology, a widely used resource for the oil and gas sectors, noted development costs for the Salam-Patawali oil fields were pegged at RM13.7 billion, with production set to peak in 2028. ConocoPhillips and Petronas had also envisaged working the area until the field reaches its economic limit in 2067. The other production sharing contract operated by ConocoPhillips in Sarawak is known as the SK304 block that encompasses 1.1 million net acres. Exploration there remains at the feasibility stage. GROWING COMPLEXITIES, IMPACT ON INVESTOR SENTIMENT ConocoPhillips' move to withdraw from the Salam-Patawali project highlights the growing complexities facing the oil and gas sector in Sarawak. The dispute between Petronas and Petros has already produced legal skirmishes in recent months. The first legal challenge was filed by Petros against Petronas in mid-October at the Kuching High Court over the national corporation’s demand for payment of RM7.05 million tied to a bank guarantee under a gas sales agreement signed in end-December 2019. In court documents reviewed by CNA, Petros is arguing that the 2019 gas sales agreement is “illegal and void” because Petronas failed to obtain the “necessary licence” under the Distribution and Gas Ordinance enacted by the state in 2016. Petros added that honouring the RM7.05 million claim would be “endorsing and furthering an illegal agreement”. In a separate dispute, a Malaysian unit of international oil giant Shell obtained an interim order in January from the Kuala Lumpur High Court to temporarily suspend payment on natural gas supplies from the Bintulu gas facility in Sarawak. The High Court granted an interim injunction to Shell MDS Malaysia Sdn Bhd to continue its operations without any disruption in supply until the legal tussle between Petronas and Petros is resolved. While ongoing petroleum projects in Sarawak, such as the Bintulu gas facility, remain operational, several industry executives noted that the ongoing faceoff between Abang Johari’s administration and Petronas could dampen investor sentiment on the oil and gas sector in the Borneo state. They noted that Petros, which was formed in August 2017, lacks the technological expertise and international experience that Petronas’s exploration arm Carigali possesses. “Petros and the Sarawak-based E&P (exploration and production) companies don’t have the capabilities yet and that does not make them attractive partners without Petronas in the mix,” said the chief executive of a listed Malaysian engineering company with a long relationship with the national oil corporation. He added that Sarawak’s immediate challenge is whether it can quickly “find a replacement contractor for (the) Salam-Patawali” oil field.",
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Police said two dozen people were injured, some critically, and warned that the death toll could rise in coming days and weeks. As of Sunday afternoon, Rai said he did not believe there were any ongoing threats to the community. More than 100 police officers joined the investigation, as local officials worked with provincial and federal authorities to provide support services. Messages of condolence and support came from across the globe. \"The community will feel this for a long time,\" RJ Aquino, chair of the community advocacy group Filipino BC, told reporters. \"We want to tell everybody that we're grieving. We want to tell everybody that we see and hear the support from around the world at this point.\" The attack on Saturday evening took place two days before Canada's federal election on Monday. A spokesperson for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he would be traveling to Vancouver on Sunday. Carney's campaign movements were delayed on Sunday morning but he resumed campaigning after making a statement in which he expressed his condolences to the country's Filipino community. \"Last night, families lost a sister, a brother, a mother, a father, a son or a daughter. Those families are living every family's nightmare,\" he told reporters in Hamilton, Ontario. \"I join all Canadians in mourning with you. I know that Canadians are united with you,\" he said. British Columbia Premier David Eby said at a press conference near the site of the attack on Sunday afternoon that it was hard not to feel rage towards the man who \"murdered innocent people\" for reasons that were not yet known. \"I want to turn the rage that I feel into ensuring that we stand with the Filipino community, that we deliver what they need, that we stand with those families who have lost loved ones,\" he told reporters. \"I know it's hard to believe it in this moment, but I know we will come back stronger.\" More than 12 hours after the incident, police still did not have a motive for the attack at the festival, which took place without a dedicated police presence or heavy vehicle barriers. \"There were no known threats to the event or to the Filipino community,\" Rai said. The suspect was initially chased down and held by festival-goers until police arrived, witnesses said. The injured were taken to multiple hospitals, police said. The incident happened shortly after 8pm in Vancouver's Sunset neighbourhood, an area known for its large Asian population, where the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party, celebrating a Philippine national hero, was taking place. One witness told CTV News he saw a black vehicle driving erratically in the area of the festival just before the crowd was struck. A photo of the aftermath posted online showed a dark Audi SUV with both front fenders crumpled and the hood pushed up toward the vehicle's windshield. While mass casualty attacks are far less common in Canada than in the United States, such incidents have occurred with some regularity north of the border. At least two of those attacks involved motor vehicles. In 2021, a man killed four members of a Muslim family by running them over with a pickup truck. In 2018, a man drove a rented van into a lunch-hour crowd in Toronto, killing 10 people and injuring 15 along a sidewalk thronged with pedestrians. \"HORRIFIC\" Online images from the scene in Vancouver showed the bodies of victims on the pavement alongside a row of colorful food trucks as others attended to them on a roadway littered with debris including what appeared to be a motorised scooter. A witness who did not wish to be identified said he had seen about 15 people lying on the ground after the SUV plowed into the crowd. The witness said the driver tried to run but was chased down and held against a fence for about 10 minutes until police arrived. \"I didn't get to see the driver, all I heard was an engine rev,\" Yoseb Vardeh, co-owner of food truck Bao Buns, said in an interview with Postmedia. \"I got outside my food truck, I looked down the road and there's just bodies everywhere,\" said Vardeh, his voice breaking with emotion. \"He went through the whole block, he went straight down the middle.\" The attack came at the end of the festival, following a concert headlined by Filipino-American rapper Apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas, according to Mable Elmore, a member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly, who attended the event. \"Everybody was happy and getting ready to go. And that's when, that's when the incident happened,\" Elmore told reporters through tears. \"We are in incredible pain,\" she said. \"We will come together out of this catastrophe through the support and the love from the broad community.\" The festival, celebrated especially in the central Philippines, honors Datu Lapu-Lapu, a Filipino chieftain who defeated Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan in 1521. The government of British Columbia officially recognized Apr 27 as Lapu-Lapu Day in 2023, acknowledging the cultural contributions of the Filipino-Canadian community, one of the largest immigrant groups in the province. The centerpiece of the festival is a multi-block street party featuring Filipino food and traditions, live performances and cultural displays.",
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      • "content": "SEOUL: North Korea confirmed for the first time on Monday (Apr 28) that it had sent troops to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine under orders from leader Kim Jong Un and that it had helped regain control of Russian territory occupied by Ukraine. North Korea's unprecedented deployment of thousands of troops, as well as massive amounts of artillery ammunition and missiles, gave Russia a crucial battlefield advantage in the western Kursk region and has brought the two economically and politically isolated countries closer . The victorious end of the battle to liberate Kursk showed the \"highest strategic level of the firm militant friendship\" between North Korea and Russia, state news agency KCNA cited the North's ruling party as saying. Russia acknowledged the North Korean deployment for the first time over the weekend and said Ukrainian forces had been expelled from the last Russian village they were holding. Kyiv has denied the claim and said its troops were still operating in some parts of Russian territory. On Monday, Russia's President Vladimir Putin expressed his personal gratitude to North Korea and Kim. \"We will always honour the Korean heroes who gave their lives for Russia, for our common freedom, on an equal basis with their Russian brothers in arms,\" Putin said in a statement released by the Kremlin. The Central Military Commission of North Korea's Workers' Party said Kim made the decision to deploy troops under the comprehensive strategic partnership treaty he signed with Putin last year. Under Kim's orders, North Korean military units fought with the same heroism and bravery they would have shown if they were fighting for their own country, KCNA cited the Commission as saying. \"They who fought for justice are all heroes and representatives of the honour of the motherland,\" KCNA quoted Kim as saying. North Korea \"regards it as an honour to have an alliance with such a powerful state as the Russian Federation\", KCNA said. The US State Department demanded that North Korea's deployment to Russia and any support by Russia in return must end, adding that Russia had violated UN Security Council resolutions by training North Korean soldiers. Countries such as North Korea, whose support has \"perpetuated the Russia-Ukraine war, bear responsibility\", a State Department spokesperson told Reuters. South Korea said Monday's confirmation of the troop deployment was an \"admission of criminal act\", and condemned the North for the \"inhumane and immoral\" decision to send its young people to battle with the intention of propping up its regime. \"AT THE COST OF BLOOD\" The timing of the confirmation, after more than six months of silence, and stressing the sacrifice of North Korean troops \"at the cost of blood\" was meant to amplify Kim's partnership with Putin as equals, said Hong Min of the Korea Institute for National Unification. \"It now became necessary to put on a diplomatic performance for the North Korean and Russian leaders to pledge stronger ties,\" Hong Min of the Korea Institute for National Unification in Seoul said, calling the confirmation \"a build-up\" to a summit meeting in Russia. The announcement sends a clear signal to Ukraine and its western partners that Russia and North Korea maintain a military alliance, potentially justifying their deployment to other areas, including in Ukraine itself, said Artyom Lukin from Russia's Far Eastern Federal University. \"Having the option of deploying them to Ukraine strengthens Moscow's positions in the Washington-mediated ceasefire negotiations that are entering a crucial stage right now,\" he said. North Korea sent an estimated total of 14,000 troops, including 3,000 reinforcements to replace its losses, Ukrainian officials have said. Lacking armoured vehicles and drone warfare experience, they took heavy casualties but adapted quickly. Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said on Apr 24 that they had killed a unit of 25 North Korean soldiers in Kursk. They released a video showing one of the slain soldiers and their possessions, which included a note written in Korean. North Korea has also supplied weapons including artillery munitions and ballistic missiles, South Korean officials have said. For Pyongyang, the cooperation gives it greater security, Lukin said. \"After Kursk, North Korea’s security is not only based on its nukes,\" he said, \"it also stems from the alliance with a great military power, Russia.\" China, North Korea's key economic benefactor which has repeatedly condemned Western backing for Ukraine, declined to comment specifically on the admission from Pyongyang. \"China's position on the Ukraine crisis issue is consistent and clear,\" foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said.",
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      • "content": "DOHA: Qatar's prime minister said on Sunday (Apr 27) that efforts to reach a new ceasefire in Gaza have made some progress but an agreement between Israel and Hamas to end the war remains elusive. \"We have seen on Thursday a bit of progress compared to other meetings yet we need to find an answer for the ultimate question: how to end this war. That's the key point of the entire negotiations,\" said Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who also serves as foreign minister. Mossad Director David Barnea traveled to Doha on Thursday to meet Sheikh Mohammed amid efforts to reach a new ceasefire in Gaza, Axios reported last week. Sheikh Mohammed didn't say which elements of the ceasefire talks had progressed in recent days, but said Hamas and Israel remained at odds over the ultimate goal of negotiations. He said the militant group is willing to return all remaining Israeli hostages if Israel ends the war in Gaza. But Israel wants Hamas to release the remaining hostages without offering a clear vision on ending the war, he said. \"When you don't have a common objective, a common goal between the parties, I believe the opportunities (to end the war) become very thin,\" Sheikh Mohammed said at a press conference in Doha with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Fidan said talks that Turkish officials have held with Hamas had shown the group would be more open to an agreement that goes beyond a ceasefire in Gaza and aims for a lasting solution to the crisis with Israel, including a two-state solution. Later, a Turkish diplomatic source said Fidan had met with senior Hamas officials in Doha to discuss ceasefire negotiations and the humanitarian situation in Gaza. \"The Hamas side stated they continued working for a lasting ceasefire. They conveyed information about the meetings held in the past days,\" the source said, adding Fidan had repeated that Turkey would continue international and bilateral efforts for peace in Gaza. Israel resumed its offensive in Gaza on Mar 18 after a January ceasefire collapsed, saying it would keep up pressure on Hamas until it frees the remaining hostages still held in the enclave. Up to 24 of them are believed to still be alive. The Gaza war started after Hamas' Oct 7 2023 attack which killed 1,200 people and saw 251 hostages taken to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Since then, Israel's offensive on the enclave killed more than 51,400, according to local Palestinian health officials.",
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      • "content": "BEIRUT: The Israeli army said on Sunday (Apr 27) it struck a southern Beirut building being used to store precision missiles belonging to Hezbollah. The attack was a further test of a fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group. A huge plume of smoke billowed from the building, Reuters live footage showed, almost an hour after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order to residents of the Hadath neighbourhood. Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement that Hezbollah's precision missiles \"posed a significant threat to the State of Israel\". There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah. The latest strike adds to strains on the US-brokered ceasefire that ended last year's devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. \"Today's strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut generated panic and fear of renewed violence among those desperate for a return to normalcy,\" Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, said on X. \"We urge all sides to halt any actions that could further undermine the cessation of hostilities understanding and the implementation of SCR 1701,\" she added, referring to the United Nations Security Council resolution that ended the month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun called on the United States and France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement struck in November, to compel Israel to stop its attacks. \"Israel's continued actions in undermining stability will exacerbate tensions and place the region at real risk, threatening its security and stability,\" he said in a statement. Earlier this month an Israeli airstrike killed four people, including a Hezbollah official, in Beirut's southern suburbs, the second Israeli strike on a Hezbollah-controlled area of the Lebanese capital in five days. The attacks on southern Beirut have resumed at a time of broader escalation in hostilities in the region, with Israel having restarted Gaza strikes after a two-month truce and the United States hitting the Iranian-backed Houthis of Yemen in a bid to get them to stop attacking Red Sea shipping. Israel has dealt severe blows to Hezbollah in the war, killing thousands of its fighters, destroying much of its arsenal and eliminating its top leadership, including Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah has denied any role in recent rocket attacks from Lebanon towards Israel.",
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      • "content": "TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a thorough investigation Sunday (Apr 27) into the causes of a major blast at a key southern port that killed at least 40 people and injured more than 1,000. His instructions came after President Masoud Pezeshkian visited the blast scene in Shahid Rajaee Port near the strategic Strait of Hormuz where a fire still blazed on Sunday more than 24 hours after the explosion. \"Security and judicial officials are obliged to thoroughly investigate, uncover any negligence or intent, and follow up in accordance with regulations,\" Khamenei said in a message carried by state television. With choking smoke and air pollution spreading throughout the area, all schools and offices in Bandar Abbas, the nearby capital of Hormozgan province, were ordered closed to allow authorities to focus on the emergency effort, state television said. The health ministry urged residents to avoid going outside \"until further notice\" and to use protective masks. Arriving in Bandar Abbas, the president expressed his appreciation to first responders, adding \"we have come to see first-hand if there is anything or any issue that the government can follow up on\". \"We will try to take care of the families who lost their loved ones, and we will definitely take care of the dear people who got injured,\" he said. A photo released by Pezeshkian's office later showed him at the bedside of a man hurt in the blast. The Russian embassy said Moscow was sending multiple \"aircraft carrying specialists\" to help fight the blaze. The New York Times quoted a person with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters, as saying that what exploded was sodium perchlorate, a major ingredient in solid fuel for missiles. Defence ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik later told state TV that \"there has been no imported or exported cargo for military fuel or military use in the area\". The port's customs office said in a statement carried by state television that the explosion probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and chemical materials storage depot. Area sealed off A regional emergency official said several containers had exploded. \"For the moment, 40 people have lost their lives as a result of injuries caused by the explosion,\" Hormozgan provincial official Mohammad Ashouri told state television. The ISNA news agency, citing the provincial judiciary, gave the number of injured as 1,242. Red Crescent chief Pirhossein Koolivand said some of the injured were airlifted for treatment in the capital Tehran. Aerial photos released by the Iranian presidency showed black smoke rising from the disaster zone on Sunday and drifting towards the sea. \"The fire is under control but still not out,\" a state TV correspondent reported. Also at the scene on Sunday, Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said \"the situation has stabilised in the main areas\" of the facility, Iran's largest commercial port, and workers had resumed loading containers and customs clearance. Another official on site, Minister of Roads and Urban Development Farzaneh Sadegh, said only one zone of the port was impacted. An image from Iran's Tasnim news agency on Sunday showed a helicopter dropping water on the disaster zone. Others showed firefighters working among toppled and blackened cargo containers, and carrying out the body of a victim. The authorities have closed off roads leading to the site, and footage from the area has been limited to Iranian media outlets. Mourning Beijing's foreign ministry said in a statement to AFP on Sunday that three injured Chinese nationals were in a \"stable\" condition. The United Arab Emirates expressed \"solidarity with Iran\" over the explosion and Saudi Arabia sent condolences, as did Egypt, Pakistan, India, Turkey and the United Nations as well as Russia. The Tehran-backed Lebanese movement Hezbollah also offered condolences, saying Iran, with its \"faith and solid will, can overcome this tragic accident\". In the first reaction from a major European country, the German embassy in Tehran said on Instagram: \"Bandar Abbas, we grieve with you.\" Authorities declared a day of national mourning on Monday, and three days of mourning in Hormozgan province from Sunday. The blast occurred as Iranian and US delegations were meeting in Oman for high-level talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides reporting progress. While Iranian authorities so far appear to be treating the blast as an accident, it also comes against the backdrop of years of shadow war with regional foe Israel. According to the Washington Post, Israel launched a cyberattack targeting the Shahid Rajaee Port in 2020.",
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      • "title": "25 killed, 1,000 injured in huge Iran port blast",
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      • "content": "TEHRAN: Fires were still blazing on Sunday (Apr 27) after a massive explosion tore through Iran's largest commercial port the day before, killing at least 25 people and leaving 1,000 others injured, according to state media. The blast occurred Saturday at Shahid Rajaee Port in southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world's oil output passes. The port's customs office said in a statement carried by state television that the explosion probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and chemical materials storage depot. A regional emergency official said several containers had exploded. The New York Times quoted a person with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters, as saying that what exploded was sodium perchlorate - a major ingredient in solid fuel for missiles. Iranian state TV gave an updated toll on Sunday of 25 people killed and 1,000 injured, with thick black smoke still visible in live footage from the scene. \"The fire is under control but still not out,\" a state TV correspondent reported from the site around 20 hours after the blast. Citing local emergency services, state TV reported that hundreds of casualties \"have been transferred to nearby medical centres\", while the provincial blood transfusion centre issued a call for donations. BLOOD-STAINED CAR The explosion was so powerful that it was felt and heard about 50km away, Fars news agency reported. Speaking Sunday at the scene, Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said that \"the situation has stabilised in the main areas\" of the port. He told state TV that workers had resumed loading containers and customs clearance. Images from news agency IRNA on Saturday showed rescuers and survivors walking along a wide boulevard carpeted with debris after the blast at Shahid Rajaee, more than 1,000km south of Tehran. Flames could be seen engulfing a truck trailer and blood stained the side of a crushed car, while a helicopter dropped water on massive black smoke clouds billowing from behind stacked shipping containers. \"The shockwave was so strong that most of the port buildings were severely damaged,\" Tasnim news agency reported. The authorities have closed off the roads leading to the site of the explosion, and footage from the area has been limited to Iranian media outlets. With choking smoke and air pollution spreading throughout the area, all schools and offices in Bandar Abbas, the nearby capital of Hormozgan province, have been ordered closed on Sunday to allow authorities to focus on the emergency effort, state TV said. The health ministry urged residents to avoid going outside \"until further notice\" and to use protective masks. MOURNING Saturday is the start of the working week in Iran, meaning the port would have been busy with employees. Three Chinese nationals were \"lightly injured\", China's state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing its Bandar Abbas consulate. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed sympathy for the victims of the deadly blast, adding he had \"issued an order to investigate the situation and the causes\". The United Arab Emirates expressed \"solidarity with Iran\" over the explosion and Saudi Arabia sent condolences, as did Pakistan, India, Turkey and the United Nations. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his \"deepest condolences for the loss of life and extensive damage\" and offered to send help in a message to Iran's leaders. Authorities declared three days of public mourning across Hormozgan province. The explosion came as Iranian and US delegations met in Oman for high-level talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides reporting progress. While Iranian authorities so far appear to be treating the blast as an accident, it also comes against the backdrop of years of shadow war with regional foe Israel. According to the Washington Post, Israel in 2020 launched a cyberattack targeting the Shahid Rajaee Port.",
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      • "content": "TEHRAN: Fires blazed on Sunday (Apr 27), more than 24 hours after a massive explosion tore through Iran's largest commercial port, killing at least 28 people and leaving more than 1,000 others injured, according to the Red Crescent. The blast occurred Saturday at Shahid Rajaee Port in southern Iran, near the Strait of Hormuz through which a fifth of the world's oil output passes. With choking smoke and air pollution spreading throughout the area, all schools and offices in Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgan province around 23km east, were ordered closed on Sunday to allow authorities to focus on the emergency effort, state TV said. The health ministry urged residents to avoid going outside \"until further notice\" and to use protective masks. Russia's embassy said Moscow was sending \"several aircraft carrying specialists\" to help fight the blaze, \"at the request of Iranian partners\". The New York Times quoted a person with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss security matters, as saying that what exploded was sodium perchlorate - a major ingredient in solid fuel for missiles. Defence ministry spokesman Reza Talaei-Nik told state TV that \"there has been no imported or exported cargo for military fuel or military use in the area\". The port's customs office said in a statement carried by state television that the explosion probably resulted from a fire that broke out at the hazardous and chemical materials storage depot. A regional emergency official said several containers had exploded. Red Crescent chief Pirhossein Koolivand, in a video shared on the government's official website, gave on Sunday an updated toll of 28 people killed and more than 1,000 injured. AREA SEALED OFF Some of the injured were transferred for treatment in the capital Tehran - more than 1,000km north - Koolivand said. Thick black smoke was visible in live footage from the scene aired by state TV on Sunday. \"The fire is under control but still not out,\" a state TV correspondent reported from the scene on Sunday. The explosion was felt and heard about 50km away, Fars news agency reported. Speaking Sunday at the scene, Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni said \"the situation has stabilised in the main areas\" of the port. He told state TV that workers had resumed loading containers and customs clearance. Images from Iran's Tasnim news agency on Sunday showed a helicopter flying through a sky blackened by smoke to drop water on the disaster scene. Other Tasnim images showed firefighters working among toppled and blackened cargo containers, and carrying out the body of a victim. The authorities have closed off the roads leading to the site of the explosion, and footage from the area has been limited to Iranian media outlets. MOURNING Three Chinese nationals were \"lightly injured\" in the disaster, China's state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing its Bandar Abbas consulate. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who on Sunday was heading to the port blast area according to state TV, earlier said he had \"issued an order to investigate the situation and the causes\". The United Arab Emirates expressed \"solidarity with Iran\" over the explosion and Saudi Arabia sent condolences, as did Pakistan, India, Turkey and the United Nations, as well as Russia. Authorities declared three days of public mourning across Hormozgan province. The explosion came as Iranian and US delegations met in Oman for high-level talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, with both sides reporting progress. While Iranian authorities so far appear to be treating the blast as an accident, it also comes against the backdrop of years of shadow war with regional foe Israel. According to the Washington Post, Israel in 2020 launched a cyberattack targeting the Shahid Rajaee Port.",
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      • "content": "COPENHAGEN: Greenland's freshly elected prime minister begins his first official visit to Denmark on Sunday (Apr 27) as United States President Donald Trump eyes the Danish autonomous territory. Jens-Frederik Nielsen leads Greenland's new coalition government, after his centre-right Democrats party won a legislative election in March. It will be his first visit to Denmark since taking office. It also follows a visit to the Arctic territory by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in early April, when she told the US \"you cannot annex another country\". \"First and foremost, I will resume discussions with the Prime Minister about the geopolitical situation and cooperation,\" Nielsen said in a statement this week, referring to Frederiksen. \"It is important that we make plans for our future cooperation in these times,\" he added. Tensions between the US and Denmark have soared after Trump repeatedly said he wanted to take control of the resource-rich Arctic island . The US president has insisted Washington needs control of Greenland for security reasons, refusing to rule out the use of force to secure it. \"INTERNATIONAL PEACE\" \"I think we need that for international peace, and if we don't have that it's a big threat to our world. So I think Greenland is very important for international peace,\" Trump told reporters on Thursday during a press conference alongside Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store. In a statement announcing the visit, the Danish government said that cooperation between Greenland and Denmark would be the \"focus\" of Nielsen's visit. \"We must support each other in the difficult foreign policy situation Greenland and the Kingdom are in right now,\" said Frederiksen. US Vice President JD Vance also paid a visit to Greenland in March, which both Nuuk and Copenhagen viewed as a provocation. During his trip to the Pituffik US military base, Vance castigated Denmark for not having \"done a good job by the people of Greenland\". \"You have under-invested in the people of Greenland and you have under-invested in the security architecture of this incredible, beautiful landmass,\" he told a press conference. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen responded on social media: \"We are open to criticisms, but let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it's being delivered.\" Nielsen himself said that \"the United States will not get Greenland\". \"We don't belong to anyone else. We decide our own future,\" he added in a Facebook post. During his visit to Copenhagen, which will last two days, Nielsen will also meet Denmark's King Frederik and representatives of the Danish parliament. In a separate statement, Denmark's Royal House said the king would then accompany Nielsen back to Greenland for a visit to the Arctic island. Polls show a vast majority of Greenland's 57,000 people want to become independent from Denmark but do not wish to become part of the US.",
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      • "content": "VATICAN CITY: With Pope Francis laid to rest , all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within days to elect a new head of the Catholic Church. Alongside world leaders and reigning monarchs, an estimated 400,000 people turned out on Saturday (Apr 26) for the Argentine pontiff's funeral at the Vatican and burial in Rome. The crowds were a testament to the popularity of Francis, an energetic reformer who championed the poorest and most vulnerable. Many of those mourning the late pope, who died on Monday aged 88, expressed anxiety about who would succeed him. \"He ended up transforming the Church into something more normal, more human,\" said Romina Cacciatore, 48, an Argentinian translator living in Italy. \"I'm worried about what's coming.\" On Monday morning, at 9am (0700 GMT), cardinals will hold their fifth general meeting since the pope's death, at which they are expected to announce a date for the conclave. Held behind locked doors in the frescoed Sistine Chapel, the election of a pope has been a subject of public fascination for centuries. Cardinal-electors will cast four votes a day until one candidate secures a two-thirds majority, a result broadcast to the waiting world by burning papers that emit white smoke. Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich said last week he expected the conclave to take place on May 5 or 6 - shortly after the nine days of papal mourning, which ends on May 4. German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told reporters on Saturday the conclave would last just \"a few days\". LEFT HIS MARK Francis's funeral was held in St Peter's Square in bright spring sunshine, a mix of solemn ceremony and an outpouring of emotion for the Church's first Latin American pope. More crowds are expected on Sunday when the public can begin visiting his simple marble tomb at the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, his favourite church in Rome. Francis was buried in an alcove of the church, becoming the first pope in more than a century to be interred outside the Vatican. In his homily at the funeral, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re highlighted the Jesuit's defence of migrants, relentless calls for peace and belief that the Church was a \"home for all\". Many of the mourners expressed hope that the next pope would follow his example, at a time of widespread global conflict and growing right-wing populism. \"We are concerned; hopefully the pope will carry on the foundations left by Pope Francis,\" said Evelyn Villalta, a 74-year-old from Guatemala. \"He was a pope who left his mark on our generation,\" added Marine De Parcevaux, a 21-year-old French student who attended the mass. Marx said the debate over the next pope was open, adding: \"It's not a question of being conservative or progressive ... the new pope must have a universal vision.\" PRAY FOR OURSELVES More than 220 of the Church's 252 cardinals were at Saturday's funeral, and will gather again on Sunday afternoon at Santa Maria Maggiore to pay their respects at Francis's tomb. There will also be a mass at St Peter's Basilica at 10.30am (0830 GMT) on Sunday, led by Pietro Parolin, who was secretary of state under Francis and is a front-runner to become the next pope. Only cardinals under the age of 80 are eligible to vote in the conclave, with 135 currently eligible - most of whom Francis appointed himself. But experts caution against assuming they will choose someone like him. Francis, a former archbishop of Buenos Aires who loved being among his flock, was a very different character to his predecessor Benedict XVI, a German theologian better suited to books than kissing babies. Benedict in turn was a marked change from his Polish predecessor, the charismatic, athletic and hugely popular John Paul II. Francis's changes triggered anger among many conservative Catholics, and many of them are hoping the next pope will turn the focus back on doctrine. Some cardinals have admitted the weight of the responsibility that faces them in choosing a new head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. \"We feel very small,\" Hollerich said last week. \"We have to make decisions for the whole Church, so we really need to pray for ourselves.\"",
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