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Civil disobedience calls sprout in Myanmar after coup
Myanmar was plunged back into direct military rule when soldiers detained Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders in a series of dawn raids on Monday, ending the country's brief experiment with democracy.
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Myanmar coup just a 'cabinet reshuffle': Chinese state media
Beijing called for all parties in Myanmar to 'resolve their differences', and the official Xinhua news agency on Monday described the military replacing elected ministers after the coup as a 'major cabinet reshuffle'.
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Ousted Myanmar party calls for release of Suu Kyi, other leaders
Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, was detained by the military in the early hours of Monday along with President Win Myint.
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Myanmar army pledges new elections, power transfer following coup
The army issued a statement hours after the army took power, detaining de facto leader Suu Kyi, declaring a state of emergency, and appointing ex-general Myint Swe as acting president.
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Myanmar's military stages coup, detains Aung San Suu Kyi
The intervention came after weeks of rising tensions between the military, which ruled the country for nearly five decades, and the civilian government over allegations of fraud in November's elections.
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Suu Kyi's party wins absolute majority in Myanmar polls
Her National League for Democracy (NLD) had already declared a landslide victory based on its own tallies, prompting street celebrations by supporters.
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Newly discovered primate in Myanmar 'already facing extinction'
Samples of Popa poop collected by Momberg and his colleagues in the forest matched those from the museum and showed that the previously unknown langur was still roaming the wild.
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Suu Kyi's party confident of landslide victory in Myanmar polls
Nobel laureate Suu Kyi remains a heroine for many in the Bamar majority heartlands, in spite of a global reputation left in tatters by her handling of the Rohingya crisis and widespread disillusionment in many ethnic minority areas.
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Twitter shuts Iran-based network accused of fanning flames of US race protests
The network of more than 100 accounts allegedly "artificially amplified" conversations on topics including Floyd's death, Black Lives Matter and social justice issues.
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Scientists find world's oldest sperm in Myanmar amber
The individual sperms were described as "giants", measuring up to 4.6 times the size of the body of the male.
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China locks down city on Myanmar border over coronavirus
Seven other cases were reported around China on Tuesday - all brought in from other countries, the National Health Commission said.
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Rohingya politicians excluded from Myanmar election
His father was a civil servant. But when the country goes to the polls in November, the businessman will not be able to stand as a candidate because officials accuse him of having foreign roots.
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More bodies to be buried in mass grave after Myanmar jade mine landslide
More than 170 people, many of them migrants seeking their fortune in the jade-rich Hpakant area of Kachin state, died on Thursday after mining waste collapsed into a lake, triggering a surge of mud and water.
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Two Rohingya women killed in Myanmar shelling
Military spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told AFP said that one woman was killed on the spot by "heavy weapons" while another died after arriving at hospital in conflict-torn northern Rakhine state.
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Top UN court orders Myanmar to prevent Rohingya genocide
The International Court of Justice rejected arguments made by Myanmar's civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in The Hague in December and set out urgent steps for the majority Buddhist nation to end the violence.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi warns genocide case could reignite Rohingya crisis
In her closing arguments after a three-day hearing at the International Court of Justice, Myanmar's de facto civilian leader issued a stark warning to judges that allowing The Gambia's case against Myanmar to go ahead could 'undermine reconciliation'.
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Suu Kyi tell UN's top court charge of Rohingya genocide is 'misleading'
The Nobel Peace laureate challenged allegations in a lawsuit brought by Gambia last month accusing Myanmar of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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Rohingya call for Myanmar's Suu Kyi to acknowledge atrocities
The case brought by the tiny west African nation of Gambia is the first international legal attempt to bring Myanmar to justice over the crisis.
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Myanmar leader Suu Kyi departs for genocide hearings amid fanfare at home
Suu Kyi was pictured smiling as she walked through the airport in the nation’s capital, Naypyitaw, a day after thousands rallied in the city to support her.
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Thousands in Myanmar rally behind Suu Kyi ahead of Hague court date
The ICJ lawsuit was brought by Gambia, a tiny, mainly Muslim West African state that alleges Myanmar breached the UN's Genocide Convention with its bloody 2017 crackdown on the Rohingya.
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Gambia files Rohingya genocide case against Myanmar at World Court - minister
In its filing, Gambia asked the court to grant so-called provisional measures to make sure Myanmar immediately 'stops atrocities and genocide against its own Rohingya people'.
