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Killings and arrests follow fighting in Mandalay and Sagaing divisions and Chin state.

Analysts and activists talk of a “failed state” or “civil war” while citizens worry about eating.

WHITEWATER When former police tactical trainer Paul Eckert used to drill officers on responding to active shooters, he hammered them with one big takeaway: The human brain tends to function worse under real-life fear and extreme stress than it might during an emergency drill. Eckert took his own observations and ideas on how panic and fear affect decision-making and turned them into a technology designed to reduce confusion in the heat of a sudden, violent event such as a mass shooting. Or a fire, industrial explosion or chemical spill. Working out of the Whitewater Innovation Center, Eckert ...

RFA Opponents of Myanmar’s ruling junta splashed red paint and dye on buildings and streets across the country on Wednesday to symbolize the blood of hundreds of civilians killed by the regime, which searched houses in major cities to root out protesters and moved to arrest doctors who oppose the military takeover. Protesters in multiple cities marked the second day of Burmese New Year with what they called they called a “Blood Campaign Against Dictatorship” the latest in a series of symbolic shows of resistance to the 10-week-old junta. Previous demonstrations have featur...

Obul Tevekkul, 47, realtor in the Sefakoy district, participates in a demonstration to ask for news of their relatives and to voice opposition to the ratification of an extradition treaty between China and Turkey, near China's consulate in Istanbul, Feb. 22, 2021. AFP Lawmakers in Australia rejected a motion on Monday to recognize human rights violations in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region as genocide, disappointing hopes by Uyghurs and other XUAR natives that the country would follow similar designations by the U.S., Canada and the Netherlands. Earlier in Canbe...