Buddhists rally against Rohingya

Several hundred Buddhist nationalists, including monks, rallied in Myanmar’s largest city on Wednesday to urge stronger action against insurgents from the Muslim Rohingya minority for attacks on police last week.

BRICS summit tensions

China and India may have ended a tense border standoff, but their long rivalry raises questions about the possibility of meaningful cooperation at an upcoming summit.

The annual summit of the BRICS grouping encompassing Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gets under way this weekend.

Oxygen shortage crime

RajivMishra, former chiefof the Indian medical collegewhere over 60 sick childrendied this month whilethe hospital’s oxygen supplieswere depleted, has beenarrested on charges ofculpable homicide, Indianauthorities said.

Indian officials disclosed that 386 children had died there this month.

Supplies ran out because the hospital had failed to pay its bills to an oxygen supplier.

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