Three killed as Myanmar troops battle protests
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Seething crowds of Buddhist monks and civilians filled the streets of Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, defying warning shots, tear gas and baton charges meant to quell the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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Seventeen people, including three policemen, have been killed in violent protests in Pakistan over the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, police and a provincial government minister said on Friday.
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Soldiers fired warning shots in the air to break up hundreds of Buddhist monks protesting in central Myanmar against a massive hike in fuel prices, media reports and a resident said Thursday.
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Exclusive: The scene on the streets of Burma's capital was chaotic as security forces cracked down on protesting monks
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Six protesters have been killed when security forces broke up a demonstration outside a police station in Thailand&#39;s troubled Muslim-majority south.
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At least three people were  killed as protests spread in Pakistan's gas-rich Baluchistan  province on Sunday, a day after a popular nationalist rebel  leader was killed fighting government forces.
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Three people are killed and at least 25 are injured in Nepal after police open fire on protesters.
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The leader of the Karen National Union, one of the biggest ethnic groups fighting Myanmar's military government, was killed Thursday in Thailand
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Myanmar soldiers and police cracked down hard on the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years, sealing off the Shwedagon Pagoda, firing tear gas and arresting up to 200 monks on Wednesday.
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Military-run Myanmar put on a show of defiance Friday on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain amid global pressure for reform following the junta's bloody crackdown on dissent.
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RANGOON, Burma, Aug. 23 -- Defiant pro-democracy activists took to the streets Thursday for the third time this week, forming a human chain to try to prevent officers from dragging them into waiting trucks and buses.
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As many as 100,000 anti-government protesters led by a phalanx of Buddhist monks marched Monday through Yangon, the largest crowd to demonstrate in Myanmar's biggest city since a 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally crushed by the military.
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DHAKA: Bangladesh was brought to a standstill yesterday by the third general strike in a week called by the main opposition Awami League to protest a deadly attack on a rally, police and witnesses said.
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Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar fired tear gas on Tuesday to break up a protest of around 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilian demonstrators in the northwestern city of Sittwe, a witness said.
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The Myanmar junta poured troops and police armed with rifles into central Yangon on Tuesday in an attempt to end the biggest demonstrations against military rule in nearly 20 years.
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Soldiers and police fired into crowds of demonstrators in Myanmar's largest city and gave them 10 minutes to clear the streets or be shot on Thursday, with nine people killed in the second day of a crackdown on the largest uprising in 20 years.
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Police firing tear gas and bullets halted protests Wednesday, blocking mass rallies the opposition hoped would show the power behind their demands for the president to step down. At least two people were fatally shot by police.