Muted celebrations as Queen Elizabeth turns 94

London: Queen Elizabeth turned 94 on Tuesday but the coronavirus lockdown meant there was little fanfare to mark the occasion. Elizabeth, the world’s eldest and longest-reigning monarch, typically spends her birthday privately but this year the event will be even more muted. Royal birthdays and anniversaries are traditionally marked by ceremonial gun salutes, in which blank rounds are fired from various locations across London, but the Queen felt it would be inappropriate to allow this to go ahead given the circumstances. Reuters

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Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar

Yemen: A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations-marked vehicle was ambushed as they were carrying COVID-19 test samples in conflict-ridden Rakhine state. The country’s northwest has been embroiled in an increasingly brutal civil war between Myanmar’s military and Arakan Army rebels demanding more autonomy for the state’s ethnic Rakhine population. Both the military and insurgents blamed each other for the attack. AFP