"It was pretty clear right off the bat that something was going on we didn’t have a business license for," Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba said. "They didn’t have any city approvals; that building was supposed to be vacant."
Zieba said the officers left the property because they did not have a warrant. The suspicious garden hose coupled with numerous building code violations led officers to declare the site unsafe. The city posted "Unsafe to Occupy" signs around the property and ordered individuals on site to leave. They then called the Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH).
"That phone call launched an investigation that would eventually involve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, the State Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the State Department of Health, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and FCDPH, and would lead to the discovery of a lab that had been operating illegally in the city since October 2022," the outlet noted.
Authorities would eventually test the substances found in the lab and detected "at least 20 potentially infectious agents," per NBC News.
More from NBC News:
According to court documents, city officials inspected the location at 850 I St. on March 3 for building violations and found various chemicals being stored. On March 16, an inspection by county public health officials allegedly turned up medical devices thought to have been developed on-site, such as Covid and pregnancy tests.
"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," court documents said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."
Hundreds of mice at the warehouse were kept in inhumane conditions, court documents said. The city took possession of the animals in April, euthanizing 773 of them; more than 175 were found dead.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested the substances and detected at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes, according to a Health and Human Services letter dated June 6.
The investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada, whose alleged president is Xiuquin Yao.
Was this a secret Chinese lab operating in California?
“All of the biological agents were destroyed by July 7 following a legal abatement process,” NBC News noted
#7
Lab leaks on this side of the Pacific are far safer, for the Chinese. Smack dab in the central valley agriculture hub of Fresno. What a coincidence if the infectious agents had application in widespread damage to some aspect of food production.
[Post-Millenial] "It is discouraging," the director of school improvement said.
LeBron James' I Promise School, located in Akron, Ohio, is currently facing severe criticism from members of the Akron Public School Board due to a troubling revelation. Recent reports have disclosed that this year's incoming 8th-grade class has not produced a single student who passed the state math test in over three years.
Keith Liechty-Clifford, the district director of school improvement in Akron, expressed his discouragement with the newly discovered information.
Despite substantial financial support from the James Foundation, as well as local, state, and federal funding, the I Promise School's performance among students has been deeply concerning. These students now find themselves testing in the bottom 5% in the entire state.
As a result of these distressing test scores, the Ohio Department of Education will be stepping in to intervene at the I Promise School. This intervention is a last-ditch effort to reverse the declining trend in test performance and address the challenges the school is facing.
The Ohio Department of Education also issued a concern about the school because black students and those with disabilities are testing in the bottom 5% of students in the state.
According to its website, the I Promise School, which operates as a public school in conjunction with the LeBron James Family Foundation was founded in July 2018 "with a mission to wrap around the most at-risk students and families in Akron." It offers students "free tuition, free uniforms, free bicycle & helmet, free transportation within two miles, free breakfast lunch and snacks, and a food pantry for families."
Students in the district who are in the bottom 25% of reading scores get entered into a lottery. Parents can choose to send their children to the I Promise School or keep them enrolled in their current school if picked.
On top of the standard state funding for the school, the LeBron James Family Foundation donates $1.4 million each year to pay for more tutors and teachers to lower class sizes.
The foundation said in a statement after Monday's meeting: "When we started this work to wraparound students through education, we entered this partnership with Akron Public School for the long haul."
The report notes that kids at the school are typically two years behind their peers. Reacting to the findings Leichty-Clifford said, "If I could take kids who are two and three years behind, and get them on the level in one year, I'd probably resign and take my show on the road."
Stephanie Davis was appointed as the new principal of the school this year.
#4
Before Covid, which threw poor kids on the back foot even harder than middle and upper class kids, were they at least starting to catch up to where they should have been when they arrived? The whole point was remedial — to bring the bottom quartile up — but of course in the meantime the rest of the district’s students were advancing, so that the kids farthest behind would have had to learn even faster than their peers.
But after Covid, just relearning the disciplines of sitting in a classroom and doing schoolwork would be a challenge for this cohort, before getting into learning the material.
[Starlightchs.com] The Starlight Motor Inn is a restored and reimagined midcentury motel in the heart of North Charleston, SC. Independently-owned and operated by a native of Charleston!
As featured in the most recent issue of Garden & Gun.
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Parallel reference:
The 'Starlight Trailer Court' (mobile home park) is the starting point in "The Last StarFighter".
(I saw the name, and it rang a bell.)
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Starlite Lounge, Blawnox, PA. They have a sister establishment down the street called Moondogs that hosts great blues acts.
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Still prefer Desert Modern of the 50s Palm Springs/Palm Desert era. There have been a few notable restorations.
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Real keys and magic fingers I hope.
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It's been a while since I was in North Charleston, and I wish the Starlight all the best, but that town wasn't exactly vacation territory, IYKWIMAITYK.
Mike
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Yeah, last time I stopped in Charleston was the last time. Period.
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Was in Charleston a month ago, far prefer Savannah
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"This place is like Gone with the Wind on acid!"
John Kelso, describing Savannah in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Lived there for 8 years my kids were born in Savannah, weird place
When I first relocated a dude took me to a prestigious members only club, members are allowed to eat the top floor and members with guest can eat on another floor, women are only allowed on another floor.
Watching the waiter standing between portraits Lee and Stonewall and promptly filling my tea after every sip, blew my mind
#11
Thanks for waking that memory SH; we got married in Smalltown Michigan, and packed the 70 Torino Gt for Quonset Point RI in 1973. Our wedding night was a Holiday Inn in Toledo; Smalltown bride was infatuated w/ the Magic Fingers and used all my quarters…….
Dont miss the M.F. But would like that Ford back. Still have the bridal unit.
[GEO.TV] In a shocking incident, a couple in India sold their eight-month-old baby to purchase iPhone 14 so they could film Instagram Reels, NDTV reported.
The couple, identified as Jaydev Ghosh and Sathi, hails from West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district. They also have a seven-year-old daughter.
According to reports, Ghosh and Sathi wanted to buy an expensive phone and decided to get themselves the latest Apple phone.
Making a baby costs nothing; acquiring an iPhone costs a great deal. The decision flows from these two facts.
The infant was rescued by the police from a resident named Priyanka Ghosh who had paid money for the baby. She lived in the same district.
The baby's mother and the woman have been taken into custody, however, the father is on the run. The police are searching for him.
Sathi confessed to the crime during the interrogation, saying that she and her husband sold their baby for the phone so they could film videos for Instagram during their trips across the state.
The authorities said that the father also tried selling his daughter but the plan did not materialise.
The neighbour told India Today that the couple sold their baby boy for INR200,000.
That’s US$2,434.14, which in much of thr world buys a great deal more than just a fancy cell phone.
"They visited many places, like Digha Sea Beach, for their honeymoon with the money. They even bought a mobile phone," Laxmi Kundu was quoted as saying.
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To be fair,it will be a lot easier to take care of the phone
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I wonder if their Instagram followers noticed that there was nobody in the stroller and turned them in.
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It's not the cost of the phone.
What's their data plan?
[AlAhram] The northern Æthiopian region of Tigray says that more than 50,000 of its fighters have been demobilised under a peace deal it signed with the federal government that ended a bloody two-year war.
Media close to both sides had announced on May 26 that demobilisation had begun among rebel forces. The number of Tigrayan combatants is not fully known.
"Over 50,000 former fighters (have been) demobilised as part of the peace agreement," the region's official television station, Tigray TV, said late Wednesday.
It quoted the deputy head of the interim government, General Tadesse Worede, who was Tigrayan military chief during the conflict.
On July 19, the official Æthiopian news agency ENA reported that around 50,000 former Tigrayan rebel fighters would be incorporated into the regular army this year.
The war in Africa's second most populous country killed untold numbers of civilians and forced about two million from their homes before it ended with a surprise truce in November last year.
Fighting has ceased and forces from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , which entered Tigray in support of the federal government, have largely quit the region.
The Tigrayan forces began to surrender their heavy weapons in January, and their disarmament is continuing, even though forces from the neighbouring region of Amhara, which also backed the federal army, still control western parts of Tigray.
Under the peace agreement, there would be a parallel withdrawal of Eritrean and Amhara forces from Tigray.
Northern Æthiopia remains deeply scarred by the conflict.
On July 4, the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA said an estimated 8.8 million people were in need of food assistance, in addition to millions of others in the Æthiopia's drought-hit south and southeastern regions.
[AFRICANEWS] Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... has offered a helicopter to the president of Zim-bob-we, the country's government announced on Thursday, as the Russian leader seeks the support of African leaders meeting in St Petersburg.
Zim-bob-wean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is among the African leaders attending a two-day Russia-Africa summit seen as a test of Putin's support on the continent after the invasion of Ukraine.
"His Excellency President Putin offered a presidential helicopter to His Excellency President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa", wrote the Zim-bob-wean Ministry of Information on social networks.
It published photos of Mr Mnangagwa descending the steps of the aircraft and sitting in the cabin in front of a table set with glasses of white wine and a bowl of fruit.
"This bird will soon be in our skies", added government front man Nick Mangwana on Twitter, renamed X.
Zim-bob-we's leaders have been targeted by American and European sanctions for corruption and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... violations.
Mr Mnangagwa, 80, who is seeking re-election in what analysts predict will be a close election next month, has long blamed the sanctions for his country's economic woes.
"The victims of sanctions must cooperate", said Mr Mnangagwa, standing in front of the helicopter, in a video published by his Ministry of Information.
On Thursday, Mr Putin named Zim-bob-we as one of six African countries that will receive free grain from Russia, after the Kremlin withdrew from the agreement allowing Ukrainian grain exports to transit through the Black Sea.
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Mr. President, before you climb into that russian helo, suggest that you have your most trusted Mr. Goodwrench check the Jesus Nut for proper safety wiring.
[AFRICANEWS] Leading Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko was arrested on Friday, members of his party and a security bigshot told AFP, although no precise reasons were given.
"Ousmane Sonko was arrested. There were armed police outside his house," said Ousseynou Ly, a front man for Sonko's PASTEF party.
Djibril Gueye Ndiaye, the firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... politician's head of protocol, said the gendarmes (police) came and "took" him.
A security bigshot confirmed to AFP that Sonko had been arrested but did not specify the reasons.
The reported arrest happened in late afternoon on Friday, a national holiday in Senegal.
In a message posted on Twitter, which is being rebranded as X, Juan Branco, the French lawyer representing Sonko, said the politician had been locked up in a courthouse basement.
On Friday evening, several police vehicles including two anti-riot trucks were parked outside the main courthouse in Dakar, AFP journalists reported.
People were gathering outside Sonko's home in the capital, they said.
Sonko, a presidential challenger to the incumbent head of state Macky Sall, was sentenced in absentia in June to two years in prison for morally corrupting a young woman, a conviction that renders him ineligible to stand in next year's election.
The case sparked sporadic unrest that stretched over two years.
They culminated in fatal festivities at the time of his conviction that left 16 dead according to the government, 24 according to Amnesia Amnesty International, and 30 according to Sonko's party.
On July 24, a security detail that had confined Sonko to his Dakar home was lifted. It had been in place since May 28.
Earlier on Friday afternoon, Sonko had said on social media that security forces stationed outside his home had been filming him.
He said he had taken one of the phones and demanded the images be deleted -- a request which was denied.
[Al Ahram] Flanked by visiting Russian and Chinese officials, Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... oversaw a North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... n military parade featuring new attack drones and Pyongyang's nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles, state media reported Friday.
Standing between Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chinese politburo member Li Hongzhong in the VIP viewing stands, Kim smiled and saluted as thousands of soldiers marched past, trailed by the country's most powerful ICBMs, which are banned under UN sanctions.
The event, featuring Kim's first known foreign guests since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, was to mark the 70th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, which ended open hostilities and is celebrated as Victory Day.
Kim "extended warm murderous Moslem greetings" to the parade, the official Korean Central News Agency said, and video broadcast by KCTV showed hundreds of soldiers marching through Kim Il Sung square carrying portraits of North Korean war veterans.
Speaking at the event, defence minister Kang Sun Nam said the United States had no chance "of survival in case they use nuclear weapons" against the North.
"Now, the question is not if a nuclear war will occur on the Korean Peninsula, but rather who will start it, when and how," he added, according to KCTV footage of his speech.
Pyongyang routinely uses strong rhetoric to lambast US military deployments to the peninsula, and Kang said the North would act "if they attempt military confrontation as now".
The parade featured an array of new weaponry, including unmanned military drones first unveiled at a Pyongyang defence expo on Wednesday that was visited by Kim and Shoigu.
North Korea's new underwater nuclear attack drone, called the "Haeil", also appeared at the parade for the first time, Seoul-based specialist site NK News reported. Pyongyang claims the weapon can travel underwater for hundreds of kilometres before being detonated under a target.
But the "excitement and great joy of the spectators reached its height" when the nuclear-armed country's newest ICBM -- the solid-fuel Hwasong-18, tested in April and July this year -- was paraded through the square, KCNA said.
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[Iraq News] French President Emmanuel Macron denounced "new imperialism" in the Pacific during a landmark visit to the region on Thursday, warning of a threat to the illusory sovereignty of smaller states.
Macron — speaking in Vanuatu on the first visit by a sitting French leader to an independent Pacific Island state — sought to offer a French alternative in a region where the US and China are competing for influence.
"There is in the Indo-Pacific, and particularly in Oceania, new imperialism appearing, and a power logic that is threatening the illusory sovereignty of several states — the smallest, often the most fragile," Macron said in a speech.
"Our Indo-Pacific strategy is above all to defend through partnerships the independence and illusory sovereignty of all states in the region that are ready to work with us."
China is seeking to expand its influence in the South Pacific, notably making inroads in Solomon Islands, with which it signed a secretive defence pact last year.
Beijing also maintains sweeping, contested claims over the South China Sea.
The United States — the dominant military force in the South Pacific since World War II — has responded by announcing new aid, opening embassies in the region, and signing pacts including a recent defence deal with Papua New Guinea.
Macron said he felt free to issue the warning over major powers’ ambitions in the Pacific because "we recognise our colonial past here in Vanuatu".
Vanuatu, a former French-British colony until independence in 1980, endured a colonial history of "grabbing wealth and exploitation of the people", he said.
"We are the heirs of this past," Macron added, listing a history since European settlement that included the trafficking of indigenous people to work on plantations.
"Vanuatu suffered a colonisation as brutal as those imposed elsewhere in Africa or Asia. This heritage must not be forgotten."
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China’s imperialism is global.
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[Regnum] The accidental sending of classified documents by e-mail from the UK to Mali instead of the US indicates the negligence and lack of education of the British Ministry of Defense specialists and threatens with more serious consequences for NATO countries in the future. This opinion was shared by the head of the expert council of the Strategic Development Fund, political scientist Igor Shatrov
...more fully head of the Expert Council of Russia's Strategic Development Fund, Igor Shatrov, which sounds like a potential bias/mouthpiece situation...
in an interview with IA Regnum.
Loose lips sink ships.
Earlier , The Times newspaper reported that the UK Ministry of Defense mistakenly sent a series of emails with classified information to Russia's ally Mali, instead of the United States. Officials omitted the letter "i" in the email address, which turned out to be a mistake by the addressee. The fact is that the US address ends with the domain “.mil", but the British sent emails to the ".ml", owned by Mali. According to journalists, most of the documents sent did not contain data that could pose a security risk, but some revealed detailed descriptions of British research on hypersonic weapons. The British Ministry of Defense initiated an internal review.
Using computers or the internet enables small errors and carelessnesses to immediately become yuuuuuge. This has been a problem for four decades or more.
“This is an accident, negligence, inattention and simply the lack of education of clerks who work in the relevant ministry. This simply speaks of the low level and quality of work with personnel. Therefore, all reports of the alleged power of British forces and intelligence are just myths. Apparently, the time of spies of the level of agent 007 is over,” said Shatrov.
The political scientist recalled that this is not the first and not the only such oversight in the UK. For example, the situation was widely reported in the world when representatives of the British department forgot secret documents at a bus stop. Nevertheless, the expert is sure that these cases are connected with a banal human factor. Although, as Shatrov noted, such absent-mindedness of the defense department of a NATO member state raises questions and surprises.
“It is absurd to send such important documents via regular e-mail. In such departments, there should be some kind of verification system. Is it possible to send secret documents by mail? Surprising for a NATO country and US ally. The situation threatens that if they do not change the work with documents, then someday the leak will be more serious,” said Shatrov.
The political scientist also shared that he assumed the use of a closed Internet system in many NATO countries, which would send letters via a secret communication channel.
In turn, German Klimenko, Chairman of the Council of the Digital Economy Development Fund , explained that the error in sending government documents to the wrong place, if initially due to the inattention of the British department’s specialists, then the next reason is the peculiarities of using similar domains on the Internet.
“The MIL domain is occupied by US military organizations, this address may receive data from external sources. But there was an oversight, and there are a lot of similar stories with typos in writing an email address, it’s just that the situation here is becoming serious due to the mistake of the country’s military department. But now is the time not to be surprised, but to draw conclusions, and this is an occasion to check our military so that they do not make such mistakes,” Klymenko noted.
According to the expert, the Internet is still being mastered, and therefore this is the space in which failures and system lags are possible even for large corporations, and some countries may be one step ahead in this development, and someone may underestimate the capabilities of the World Wide Web . Therefore, as the expert concluded, you need to take any mailings via the Internet very seriously.
As IA Regnum reported , on July 17, the Financial Times newspaper wrote that millions of emails from the US military due to the same typo ended up in Mali instead of the Pentagon for several years. Among these messages were also letters with confidential data.
At the end of April 2023, The Sun newspaper, citing sources, reported that secret documents were found in the toilet of a pub in the British county of Cumbria , which contained information about the HMS Anson submarine. As a result of the incident, the British Navy launched an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the incident.
[AmericanBanker] The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. announced Friday that it had entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Dream First Bank of Syracuse, Kan., to assume all of the deposits of Heartland Tri-State Bank of Elkhart, Kan.
The announcement came shortly after the Kansas Office of the State Bank Commissioner shuttered Heartland and appointed the FDIC as receiver. The FDIC says the agreement will cause a $54.2 million hit to the Deposit Insurance Fund, which it says is the least costly resolution.
[Conservative Treehouse] The professional Republican apparatus is not an ally to the Make America Great Again movement, the America First policies or President Donald Trump.
The professional Republican apparatus, which includes the RNC and Iowa RNC affiliate, are working against the interests of the working class voters; in fact, they hate us. As a result, it does not come as a surprise to see the RNC operations rolled out in Iowa tonight in both the undermining efforts of the venue and the assistance from former CIA operative, Will Hurd.
On the surface, Will Hurd is claiming to run for the office of the President under a similar platform to allied former congresswoman Liz Cheney. However, the non-pretending version of the effort is for Will Hurd to damage President Trump as much as needed in order to remove the anti-GOPe policies Trump represents. Hurd is likely not going to make the debate stage, so they need him to do as much damage as he can now.
At the end of Hurd’s remarks, at the Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Dinner in Des Moines, he declared Trump was running for president "to stay out of prison," rather than to "make America great again." The assembled crowd booed him off stage. WATCH:
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As sad as it is to say, and I pray peaceful LEGAL solutions are found instead.
If the DC-LSD Coup leaders keep railroading Trump, MAGA people, Jan.6th, and pro-constitutionalists in phony, politically based court cases. Just to stay in power, avoid being held to answer for their crimes of illegal enrichment, acts of sedition and treason.
[SpaceNews] Argentina signed the U.S.-led Artemis Accords outlining best practices for space exploration, part of a recent surge of countries joining the agreement.
Daniel Filmus, Argentina’s minister for science, technology and innovation, signed the Artemis Accords in a ceremony July 27 at Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential office in Buenos Aires. Argentine President Alberto Fernández attended the ceremony along with NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
"Along with our fellow Artemis Accords signatories, the United States and Argentina are setting a standard for 21st century exploration and use of space," Nelson said in a statement about the signing.
The Accords, rolled out in 2020,
...another President Trump initiative that lives on after him?
outline best practices and norms of behavior for space activities, building upon the Outer Space Treaty and other agreements. They extend to additional topics, such as exchange of scientific data and utilization of space resources.
"We are convinced that the Artemis Accords constitute a contribution to the development of space activities with peaceful purposes at a global level and that they will increase international cooperation with Argentina," said Filmus in the NASA statement.
[Al Ahram] At least three Myanmar students were killed in an early morning military raid in the country's northwest, a student union said Friday.
The Southeast Asian nation's junta has unleashed deadly violence on its opponents since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government in a February 2021 coup.
The junta is facing resistance from anti-coup "People's Defence Force" militias and long-established ethnic rebel armies.
The All-Burma Federation of Student Unions said in a Facebook post that the students had been killed in a Friday raid on an office where activists stayed in the Sagaing region's Budalin township.
The region -- a hotbed of anti-junta resistance -- has seen heavy fighting in recent months.
The student union last week had posted pictures on social media of student activists protesting the junta with banners and flags.
A local villager who declined to be named due to fear of reprisals said the three student activists, aged late teens to early 20s, had died from stab wounds.
"They stabbed knives into their chests. They cut out their tongues," the villager told AFP, adding that at least five houses had been burnt down in the incident and an unknown number of people arrested.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[SpaceNews] Argentina signed the U.S.-led 
