One killed as Myanmar troops battle protests
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Troops fired shots over the heads of large crowds in Myanmar's main city on Wednesday, sending people scurrying for cover as a crackdown against the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years intensified.
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Troops fired shots over the heads of a large crowd in central Yangon on Wednesday, sending people scurrying for cover as a crackdown intensified against the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years, a witness said.
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Two people were reported killed in a protest over Afghan President Karzai&#39;s decision to replace a powerful provincial governor.
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Troops and riot police took up positions outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on Wednesday as Myanmar's junta tried to prevent monks leading new protest marches against military rule, witnesses said.
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Myanmar's 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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The scene on the streets of Burma's capital was chaotic as security forces cracked down on protesting monks
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The Security Council calls for restraint as several people are reported killed in Burma's crackdown on protests.
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Almost 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's biggest city Thursday while protected by onlookers, keeping alive the most sustained protests against the military government in at least a decade.
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At least two protesters were killed when supporters of a sacked Afghan governor clashed with US and Afghan security forces in the western city of Herat.
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Some dissidents arrested in a fierce crackdown on protests in military-ruled Myanmar have gone on hunger strike over police refusal to treat a protester with a broken leg, an activist said on Friday.
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Protesters returned to the streets of central Yangon on Thursday, undeterred by reports of security forces killing several monks as Myanmar's generals tried to end the biggest anti-military uprising in nearly 20 years.
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At least one man was killed in a protest in China&#39;s southwestern province of Sichuan, a resident said, in the second violent demonstration to hit rural China in the past week.
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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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Myanmar's junta deployed riot police and fire trucks at potential flashpoints in Yangon on Friday to prevent pro-democracy protests on the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain.
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Two people were killed in clashes on Saturday between US and Afghan forces and stone-throwing protesters angered by President Hamid Karzai effectively axing a regional governor, hospital officials and witnesses said.
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks marched through the Myanmar city of Sittwe on Wednesday, a day after soldiers fired tear gas and warning shots to scatter a similar protest against the ruling generals, a witness said.
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A leader of Myanmar's biggest  rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on  Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal  to the former Burma's military junta. Mahn Sha Lar Phan,  secretary-general of the Karen National Union (KNU), was shot  at his two-storey wooden home by two men who arrived in a  pickup truck, his neighbor Kim Suay told Reuters at the scene.  He died instantly.