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Queen Elizabeth II to miss Highland Games event
Queen Elizabeth II will not attend a traditional highlight of her summer trip to Scotland because of persistent health worries, British media said Friday. The queen had this weekend been expected to attend the Braemar Gathering near her remote Balmoral retreat in northeast Scotland.
Myanmar junta jails former British envoy for one year
Myanmar's ruling military jailed on Friday a former British ambassador and her husband for a year each for breaching immigration rules, a junta spokesman said. Since carrying out a coup last year, Myanmar's military has carried out a bloody clampdown on dissent and battled forces opposed to the takeover.
Top cleric killed by mosque blast in Afghanistan's Herat
A huge bomb blast at one of the biggest mosques in western Afghanistan Friday killed its influential imam, who called earlier this year for those who commit "the smallest act" against the government to be beheaded. In July, during a religious gathering in Kabul, he called for those who commit "the smallest act against our Islamic government" to be beheaded.
Greenpeace drops boulders on UK seabed to curb bottom-trawling fishing
Greenpeace UK said Friday it had dropped 18 large boulders on the seabed in a marine conservation zone off the coast of southwest England to prevent "destructive" industrial fishing. "We are placing large limestone boulders on the seabed to create a protective underwater barrier which will put the area off limits to destructive fishing," Anna Diski, UK oceans campaigner, told AFP on board.
Trial opens in France over 2016 Nice truck massacre
Eight suspects go on trial Monday over the July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice where a radical Islamist killed 86 people by driving a truck into thousands of locals and tourists celebrating France's national day.
Millions locked down in China's Chengdu over Covid outbreak
Millions were stuck at home in China's Chengdu on Friday after a handful of Covid-19 cases brought the megacity to a standstill. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare this week as locals in the city -- a powerhouse economic hub in China's southwest that is home to 21 million people -- feared a repeat of the months-long lockdown in the eastern megalopolis of Shanghai earlier this year.
North Korea says UN human rights expert is 'US puppet'
Pyongyang on Friday accused the newly appointed UN special rapporteur on North Korean human rights of being a "puppet of the US" and making "unpardonable reckless remarks". The spokesman said the rapporteur's activities were cover for an American smear campaign, accusing Salmon of daring to make "unpardonable reckless remarks encroaching upon our inviolable system and sovereign rights".
Flood-born: Nothing but mud as mother, infant return to Pakistan home
Swaddled tightly under the shelter of a donated tent, a newborn baby lays still amid the disorder all around. The baby, at least, is washed in the few bottles of mineral water collected from donation points that the men spend hours walking to each day.
Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to three years for electoral fraud: source
A Myanmar junta court sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to three years in jail on Friday for electoral fraud over 2020 polls which her party won in a landslide. Detained since a putsch last year, Suu Kyi has already been convicted of corruption and a clutch of other charges by a closed junta court and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
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