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3 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read

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🇲🇲 At least seven people were killed as Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy protesters, after the junta charged six journalists over their coverage of the anti-coup protests
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🇮🇶 Pope Francis says he still expects to make his historic papal visit to Iraq from March 5-8, despite a rocket attack on a military base hosting US-led coalition troops
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🇺🇸 The US will have enough Covid-19 vaccine for its entire adult population by the end of May, President Joe Biden says, while Brazil's troubles deepen as it registers its highest 24-hour death toll
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon defends her handling of sexual assault claims against her predecessor, in a case that has blown up into a full-blown crisis for the independence movement
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🚀 Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa invites eight members of the public to join him on a private lunar expedition aboard a spaceship being developed by SpaceX
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