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Myanmar's then leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during a meeting on implementation of Myanmar Education Development in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Jan. 28, 2020. Myanmar’s military says Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as health measure due to a heat wave. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

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Myanmar's ousted leader Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest due to heat, military says
By GRANT PECK - Associated Press
Tue,04/16/24-10:35PM , 128 Reads
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave, the military government said as it freed more than 3,000 prisoners under an
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The Federal Correctional Institution stands in Dublin, Calif., Dec. 5, 2022. The federal Bureau of Prisons says it is planning to close a women’s prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Press investigation exposed rampant staff-on-inmate sexual abuse. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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Bureau of Prisons to close California women's prison where inmates have been subjected to sex abuse
By MICHAEL R. SISAK, MICHAEL BALSAMO AND CHRISTOPHER WEBER - Associated Press
Mon,04/15/24-9:40AM , 99 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The beleaguered federal Bureau of Prisons said Monday it will close a women's prison in California known as the “rape club” despite attempts to reform the troubled facility after an Associated Pres
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Lawyer Mihir Desai poses for a photograph at his office in Mumbai, India, April 3, 2024. Desai is defending a dozen political activists, journalists and lawyers jailed in 2018 on accusations of plotting to overthrow the Modi government. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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In Modi's India, opponents and journalists feel the squeeze ahead of election
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN AND SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press
Sun,04/14/24-11:16PM , 156 Reads
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party ahead of the nationwide elections that begin t
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A suspect is in custody after a commercial vehicle crashed into a Texas Department of Public Safety office in a rural town west of Houston, seriously injuring several people, according the agency.

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1 dead and 13 injured in semitrailer crash at a Texas public safety office, with the driver jailed
By LEKAN OYEKANMI AND ACACIA CORONADO - Associated Press
Fri,04/12/24-12:16PM , 174 Reads
BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — A Texas semitrailer driver rammed a stolen 18-wheeler through the front of a public safety building where his renewal for a commercial driver’s license had been rejected, killing one person and injuring 13 others, authorities said Friday.
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