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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/6204/live/aaaf6ea0-c21d-11f1-b7d8-6f930589c871.jpg”] Getty Images Authorities in Myanmar have been ordered to aggressively fulfil the military’s recruitment quotas, leading to corruption, extortion and abductions You do not stay out after dark if you’re young and able-bodied in Hpa-An, the capital of Myanmar’s southern Karen state. In recent months this has become conventional wisdom. But Zaw…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a454/live/61dbc890-c4e3-11f1-a793-e9d00826e617.jpg”] Watch: Florida thrashed as Hurricane Isaias makes landfall Four people have died and hundreds of thousands are without power after Hurricane Isaias battered parts of the southern US with powerful winds and heavy rain. Officials reported two deaths each in the states of Alabama and Florida, which included people who were killed…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/1de7/live/1b9925e0-c4f1-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] ‘Horrific scene’ in Erie after mass shooting, says police chief A man has fatally shot eight people, including two children and a heavily pregnantwoman, at a home in the US state of Pennsylvania before appearing to take his own life. Police were called to a street in the city of Erie on…

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/05ed/live/df926130-c4d0-11f1-bc2e-018d645d8d21.jpg”] Reuters US death row inmate Christa Pike has been discharged from hospital following her botched execution at the end of last month, her lawyers have said. Pike, 50, has been sent back to the prison where she has spent the last 30 years and is continuing to receive medical care, according to…