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In this updated photo provided on April 30, 2026, by Myanmar Military True News Information Team, Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, center, talks with officials, in undisclosed location in Myanmar. Photo: Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP Former Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house…
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Myanmar’s junta signalled changes in the military’s leadership ahead of the country’s annual show of force on Friday (March 27, 2026), potentially clearing the way for defence chief Min Aung Hlaing to become President. Tanks and military trucks laden with rocket launchers and mobile field guns trundled through the streets as thousands of soldiers marched…
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The Military deposed and detained Suu Kyi in a 2021 coup, claiming she secured a landslide election win over pro-military parties the previous year by means of massive voter fraud. File. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s main pro-military party won the parliamentary seat of detained democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in elections run under…
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A voter casts ballot at a polling station during the second phase of general election, on January 11, 2026, in Yangon, Myanmar. | Photo Credit: AP Voters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday (January 11, 2026) to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial…
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Officials of the Union Election Commission prepare to count votes at a polling station, during the first phase of general election, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on December 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Close to five years since the February 2021 coup that overturned the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy’s (NLD) landslide electoral…
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Voting began Sunday (December 28, 2025) in Myanmar’s heavily restricted polls, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war. Former civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains jailed, while her hugely popular party has been dissolved and was not…
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Military chief Min Aung Hlaing touts the upcoming polls as a return to democracy and a chance for rebels opposing the military to make peace. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Myanmar’s junta will stage the third and final round of its heavily restricted elections on January 25, a statement said Thursday (December 25, 2025), just…
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Myanmar’s National League for Democracy party leader Aung San Suu Kyi. | Photo Credit: Reuters Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi is suffering from worsening heart problems and needs urgent medical attention, her son said on Friday (September 5, 2025), in an appeal for her immediate release from “cruel and life-threatening” custody. Kim…
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An official shows how to use a voting machine for future elections in Yangon on September 5, 2023. File | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta said Monday (August 18, 2025) that long-promised elections will start on December 28, despite a raging civil war that has put much of the country out of its control and…
File photo of Pope Francis with Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi. File. | Photo Credit: AP Pope Francis has offered refuge on Vatican territory for Myanmar’s detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Italian media said on Tuesday (September 24, 2024). “I asked for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and I met her…
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