Fourteen suspected people smugglers have gone on trial in Paris for their role in the worst ever small boats disaster in the English Channel. In November 2021, at least 30 men, women and children drowned when their motorised dinghy deflated and started taking on water halfway between France and the UK. The 14 defendants –
Fourteen people were killed in military air strikes at a monastery in Myanmar early on Friday, opposition fighters and a local rescue worker have said. All of those killed were elderly and a number of monks were also injured, the rescue worker told BBC Burmese, adding that the site was struck twice. The attack happened
