News Headlines - 11 January 2018

▽First Time, Myanmar Army Admit Killing Rohingyas And Confirm Existence Of Mass Grave

Myanmar security forces for the first time admitted taking part in a massacre of 10 Rohingyas in September and confirmed the existence of mass grave in Rakhine.
According to a statement posted on Facebook by Myanmar's commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the massacre took place on September 2 in the village of Inn Din in Rakhine state after tensions escalated pitting Rohingya against security forces and ethnic Rakhine locals following the killing of a Rakhine man.

▽EU to meet Iran to back nuclear deal in message to Trump

European powers will reaffirm on Thursday their support for the Iran nuclear deal that Donald Trump has rejected, EU diplomats said, on the eve of a deadline for the U.S. president to decide whether to reimpose oil sanctions lifted under the agreement.

▽Islamic State retreats online to 'virtual caliphate' - Channel NewsAsia

Back in 2015, when the militants held territory the size of Italy, they also commanded a huge digital presence, flooding the web with slick propaganda lionising their fighters and romanticising life under their rule.
Today, with many of the top IS leaders either dead or on the run, what remains of the group's once-sophisticated propaganda machine is also a shadow of its former self.

▽Nepali woman suffocates in 'menstruation hut' - Channel NewsAsia

A young Nepali woman has died of suspected smoke inhalation while she was banished to a shed for menstruating under an ancient tradition banned more than a decade ago, police said Wednesday (Jan 10).
Many communities in Nepal view menstruating women as impure and in some remote areas they are forced to sleep in a hut away from the home, a practice known as chhaupadi.

▽Japan rejects South Korean call for extra steps over 'comfort women'

Japan said on Tuesday it can “by no means” accept South Korea’s call for more steps to help “comfort women”, a euphemism for girls and women forced to work in Japan’s wartime brothels, a divisive issue that Japan says was resolved with a 2015 deal.