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  IMAGE SOURCE, REUTERS Image caption, Photos have emerged apparently showing the aftermath of the reported attack in Hpruso township International charity Save the Children says two of its staff are missing in Myanmar after more than 30 bodies were found following an attack blamed on the military. Troops forced people from their cars, arrested some, killed others and burned their bodies in eastern Kayah state, the charity says. Children and women are believed to be among the victims of Friday's incident. The military says it killed a number of armed terrorists in the area. Mass protests have been taking place across Myanmar (also known as Burma) since the military seized control in February. Elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party are among those detained. In a statement on Saturday Save the Children condemned the attack, which it says left at least 38 people dead. It said two staff members travelling home for the holidays ...

  ATHENS, Greece -- Karolos Papoulias, a former president of  Greece  has died at the age of 92, Greece’s state news agency ANA reports. Papoulias, a longtime socialist lawmaker and minister, was close to Andreas Papandreou, the founder of the Socialist PASOK  party , and an opponent of Papandreou’s successor, the moderate modernizer Costas Simitis. This opposition prompted conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, who succeeded Simitis in 2004, to propose Papoulias for the largely ceremonial position of president in early 2005. Papoulias was re-elected to a second term in February 2010, a term marked by Greece’s financial crisis. Papoulias had little power to shape policy, but he was also temperamentally adverse to upstaging the successive governments he swore into office — conservative, socialist, a conservative-socialist coalition and, in the final month of his term, the leftist Syriza-led government. His 10-year tenure was mostly free of controversy. Karolos...