US journalist jailed for 11 years in Myanmar
YANGON, Nov 12: A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday jailed American journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years, his lawyer and his employer said, despite US calls for his release from what it said was unjust detention. Fenster, 37, the managing editor of online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was found guilty of incitement and violations of immigration and unlawful associations laws, his magazine said, describing the sentences as "the harshest possible under the law". He is the first Western journalist sentenced to prison in recent years in Myanmar — Reuters
Rare Antarctic penguin accidentally travels 3,000km to New Zealand
WELLINGTON, Nov 12: A penguin has found itself on the shores of New Zealand, at least 3,000 kilometres (1,864 miles) away from its natural habitat of Antarctica. The Adélie penguin, who had now been affectionately named Pingu by locals, was found looking lost on the coast. — BBC
Queen Elizabeth to make first public
appearance since hospital stay
LONDON, Nov 12: Britain's Queen Elizabeth will attend a Remembrance Day Service on Sunday, Buckingham Palace said, in her first public engagement in person since she spent a night in hospital last month and was subsequently advised to rest. Last month the 95-year-old queen spent a night in hospital for the first time in years for what the palace called "preliminary investigations" into an unspecified ailment. — Reuters
Eight dead, 20 missing in DR Congo shipwreck
BUKAVU, Nov 12: At least eight people drowned and 20 others are missing after their motorised canoe broke in two on Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, authorities said Friday. The large lake, straddling the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo with Rwanda, is one of many waterways in constant use in the vast country where roads are often not fit for purpose. — AFP
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