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Myanmar arrested Aung San Suu Kyi to face Naypyidaw court Aung San Suu Kyi News Five years after Aung San Suu Kyi became de facto leader in Myanmar, she finds herself in a familiar place: overcoming allegations made by a military dictatorship in house arrests, with her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), on the verge of disintegration. On Monday, four months after the military seized power in a coup, the notorious politician will stand trial in Naypyidaw court on five charges, including illegal possession of walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus restrictions while campaigning f...

News From Antiwar.com Two Reuters stories from today address the growing role of European Union military forces and the inclusion of non-EU NATO powers in joint endeavors with the EU. A meeting of EU defense ministers scheduled for tomorrow is expected to approve the U.S., Canada and Norway (not a EU member) joining a project to expedite the transit of troops across the European continent in accordance with NATO demands for such streamlined deployments, which, as the report phrases it, NATO “sees as vital in the event of a conflict with Russia.” The entire initiative is NATO’s, with th...

What is Wikileaks and where is Julian Assange? James Crump © Provided by The Independent Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is due in court at the Old Bailey in London on 4 January, where a judge will decide whether to extradite him to the US to face espionage charges. Assange, 49, from Townsville, Australia, has been charged by the US with several counts of conspiracy and espionage after he obtained and published thousands of classified documents. He was arrested in London in April 2019 after seeking asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in the English capital for more than six ye...