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Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi jail sentence reduced to two years

Myanmar's military seized power on February 1, arresting Suu Kyi and scores of others, and plunging Myanmar into turmoil.

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Myanmar court postpones verdict for ousted leader Suu Kyi

A court in Myanmar postponed its verdict in the trial of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Myanmar jails American journalist Danny Fenster for 11 years

A Myanmar court found him guilty on several charges including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information.

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Myanmar's military systematically torture its detainees: AP

An estimated 1,200 people have been killed by security forces, including around 131 tortured to death, AP reported.

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Pope appeals for aid to Myanmar displaced on World Refugee Day

The supreme pontiff used his Sunday address to call for places of worship to be used as humanitarian shelters amid escalating violence in the country.

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Myanmar: First trial against Aung San Suu Kyi opens

The former leader, 75, is standing trial on charges of illegally importing walkie-talkies, failing to comply with coronavirus restrictions and violating a telecommunications law. She also faces several other charges.

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Myanmar volunteers built a library for orphans from plastic waste

Volunteers made eco-bricks by filling discarded bottles with other plastic waste

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UN envoy warns of possible civil war in Myanmar

A civil war "could happen", Chrisrine Schraner Burgener told a virtual UN news conference.

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Myanmar's Aung Suu Kyi makes first in-person court appearance

Suu Kyi's only previous court appearances have been by video link and she had not been allowed to meet in person with any of her lawyers.

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Myanmar forces kill 82 in single day in city: Report

Friday’s death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single city since March 14, when just over 100 people were killed in Yangon, the country’s biggest city.

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Myanmar anti-coup protesters launch 'Easter egg strike'

Protesters in Myanmar took to the streets holding painted eggs featuring symbols of resistance to the military coup.

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Myanmar cuts wireless internet service amid coup protests

A directive from the Ministry of Transport and Communications on Thursday instructed that "all wireless broadband data services be temporarily suspended until further notice,” according to a statement posted online by local provider Ooredoo.

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Polish journalist released from Myanmar detention

Robert Bociaga, a freelance photojournalist, was surrounded and beaten by soldiers, taken into police custody and brought before a judge.

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Thousands flee into Thailand following Myanmar air strikes

Thai authorities along the country's northwestern border braced themselves Monday for a possible influx of more ethnic Karen villagers fleeing new airstrikes from the Myanmar military.

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Global condemnation after Myanmar's deadliest day since coup

The EU, US and UK are "horrified" by the "bloodshed" in Myanmar after more than 100 people were killed on Saturday during anti-coup protests.

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Myanmar junta frees hundreds held for anti-coup protests

The prisoners appear to be the hundreds of students detained in early March while demonstrating against the February 1 coup that ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Myanmar: Martial law imposed in parts of Yangon as deaths rise

"It was positively a slaughter in one of the suburbs of Yangon yesterday," Human Rights Watch told Euronews on Monday.

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Hundreds hold a vigil in Yangon against coup and to honour victims

People sat in the middle of the street, holding candles and singing songs.

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Myanmar junta orders shutdown of five media outlets

All five networks had been offering extensive live coverage of the protests. The military government has detained dozens of journalists since the coup.

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'Stop murdering protesters,' says UN as Myanmar death toll hits 54

"It is utterly abhorrent that security forces are firing live ammunition against peaceful protesters across the country," said UNHR chief Michelle Bachelet