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CHICAGO - The fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old Adam Toledo has the city bracing for protests as a mayor who campaigned on police accountability searches for answers and progressives renew their call for "radical" police reforms.

As people were gathering for the medical protest column in Mandalay on April 15, security forces arrived to disperse them. A person was also shot dead after within the Sule Mosque compound afterwards.

The pro-democracy Ban Talu Fah or UNME of Anarchy group posted a message on Facebook calling on its supporters to show up at Government House on Thursday from 2pm to mark Songkran by “throwing colour bombs at [Prime Minister] Prayut [Chan-o-cha] and his Cabinet” at 2pm on Thursday.

With a tea shop right next to key protest zones in Myanmar's biggest city, Soe is never quite sure whether he should keep the business open.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - The suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old unarmed Black man during a traffic stop Sunday apparently meant to fire a stun gun but instead made an "accidental discharge" from her gun, her police chief said Monday.

YANGON (AFP) - Reports emerged Saturday (April 10) of more than 80 killed in the latest bloodletting by Myanmar's military, as the country's own ambassador to the United Nations called for "strong action" against the junta.

On Tuesday, protesters spilled metaphorical blood on the streets of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city. They sprayed and splashed red paint on roads, pavement and bus stops across town to mark the death toll exacted by security forces on demonstrators standing against the Feb. 1 coup carried out by the country's junta. "The blood has not dried," read one daubed message.

The Criminal Court temporarily released We Volunteer (WeVo) leader Piyarat “Toto” Chongthep on Friday under the proviso that he does not instigate any violence.

Hong Kong's "father of democracy" Martin Lee and media mogul Jimmy Lai were among a group of opposition activists found guilty for attending an unauthorized protest in 2019, in the latest blow to the city's beleaguered opposition.

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) is making preparations to evacuate Thai nationals from Myanmar as the junta’s crackdown against anti-coup demonstrators intensifies.

Five protesters were indicted on Wednesday for allegedly hurting the “liberty of the Queen” when her motorcade drove past an anti-establishment rally on October 14 last year.

The Brotherhood Alliance of Arakan Army (AA), Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), and Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) released a statement on March 30th, calling on the military (Tatmadaw) to immediately stop shooting at peaceful protests and to quickly find a solution to the current political crisis.