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More than a dozen people have also been reported missing, while conditions in some areas remain unknown

Search-and-rescue operations continued Monday in the Tanintharyi Region capital Dawei Township after at least 13 residents were killed by flooding and landslides Sept. 24-27. A local resistance group called the Tavoyan National Federation, which was formed on March 10, stated that at least 30 people have been reported missing and 50 homes were destroyed by [...] The post Thirteen dead and 30 missing as severe floods and landslides hit Tanintharyi Region appeared first on DVB .

The Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) stated on Sunday that Phone Naing, 76, a central committee member and the Karenni Army deputy chief commander, died at a hospital in Thailand while receiving treatment for an undisclosed disease on Sunday. “Phone Naing was strict in managing his soldiers but very friendly and generous outside military affairs,” [...] The post Karenni Army Deputy Chief Commander Phone Naing dies at 76 in Thailand appeared first on DVB .

At least 10 civilians were killed and an unknown number of others were injured during airstrikes carried out by the Myanmar Air Force on the “Indian Market” and the Kissapanadi Bridge in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township on Monday. “Targeting a civilian area where there’s no ongoing conflict is a war crime,” a Kyauktaw resident told [...] The post Myanmar Air Force strikes kill at least 10 civilians at Rakhine State market and bridge appeared first on DVB .

In her maiden public address since assuming the mandate on May 1 as U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Kelley E. Currie delivered a candid assessment of the Rohingya refugee crisis on Tuesday. Speaking at a high-level side event at the 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly in New [...] The post UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar calls for creative solutions to Rohingya crisis appeared first on DVB .

Addressing a high-level side event co-hosted by Bangladesh on the sidelines of the 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, U.N. Special Envoy on Myanmar Julie Bishop delivered an urgent call for international action on the Rohingya crisis. Nearly a decade after the mass forced displacements of 2017, over 1.2 [...] The post UN Special Envoy on Myanmar warns of escalating humanitarian crisis for Rohingya appeared first on DVB .

Military defector killed in airstrike on NUG regional HQ The regime’s Ministry of Information (MOI) reported on Friday that one Burma Air Force defector named Nay Win Aung was among an unknown number of people killed by regime airstrikes carried out on the National Unity Government (NUG) “Special Division Command” on Thursday. The NUG has [...] The post Military defector killed in airstrike on NUG regional HQ; Myanmar diaspora urges Japan to clarify lawmakers’ visits appeared first on DVB .

The regime’s Ministry of Information (MOI) reported on Friday that one Myanmar Air Force defector named Nay Win Aung was among an unknown number of people killed by regime airstrikes carried out on the National Unity Government (NUG) “Special Division Command” on Sept. 24. The People’s Defense Force (PDF) under NUG command, carried out search [...] The post Myanmar Air Force defector among 6 killed in targeted airstrike on NUG regional headquarters appeared first on DVB .

The regime’s Ministry of Information (MOI) reported on Friday that 23 resistance members, allegedly belonging to the People’s Defense Force (PDF), attended a surrender ceremony at the regime’s Southern Regional Military Command (RMC) in Bago Region’s Taungoo Township on Sept. 25. The 23 former resistance members had been “forcibly recruited” into the PDF, according to [...] The post Surrenders in Bago and Sagaing regions; NUG reports 20,000 military fatalities and defections appeared first on DVB .

The attacks, carried out over two consecutive days, targeted civilians, including displaced persons, resistance sources said

This year’s powerful El Nino and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday. The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate Impact Lab says [...] The post This year’s El Nino-driven heat could cause nearly half a million more deaths, group says appeared first on DVB .

U.S. President Donald Trump urged countries to leave the International Criminal Court immediately, calling it “evil” and “a rogue institution,” but only Naoero, a tiny Pacific island ​nation formerly known as Nauru, has followed suit during the U.N. General Assembly this week. Trump’s appeal on Tuesday capped an escalating U.S. campaign against ‌the Hague-based court, [...] The post President Trump tells countries to quit the International Criminal Court appeared first on DVB .