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| ↑ People transport a person who was shot during a security force crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Thingangyun, Yangon, Myanmar, March 14, 2021 |
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| Myanmar security forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators killing six people, a day after dozens of protesters were shot dead and attackers torched several Chinese-financed factories in the city of Yangon. Many people in Myanmar see China as supportive of the coup.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is deeply concerned at footage of police dragging women away from a vigil for a murdered woman. London police face an official inquiry into their actions after they intervened in the vigil for Sarah Everard. A policeman has been charged with her murder.
Publicly, the European Union has dismissed Russia’s global coronavirus vaccine supply campaign as a propaganda stunt by an undesirable regime. Behind the scenes, the bloc is turning to Moscow’s Sputnik V shot as it tries to get its stuttering efforts to vaccinate its 450 million people back on track.
The Vatican says that priests and other Catholic Church ministers cannot bless same-sex unions, in a ruling in response to moves in some parishes to impart blessings as a sign of welcome to gay Catholics.
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