Myanmar deaths higher than U.N. estimate: activists
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The death toll from a democracy  crackdown ordered by Myanmar's ruling junta was much greater  than U.N. estimates and scores of people were still missing,  activists just back from the reclusive country said on Friday.
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The Bush administration and lawmakers from both parties are pushing for the U.N. Security Council to condemn Myanmar's recent crackdown on activists.
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Thousands of protesters dotted the streets of Myanmar's largest city Thursday in peaceful protest against the ruling military junta, but missing from the crowd in the western section of Yangon were the Buddhist monks who once made up a majority of demonstrators, Johan Hallenborg, a Swedish embassy official told CNN.
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Myanmar's military junta is to release a  further 5,070 prisoners, state media announced on Saturday,  bringing the total number of prisoners released in recent weeks  to more than 14,000.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday voiced his serious concern over new restrictionsimposed on opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by the Myanmar authorities.
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BAGHDAD, Nov. 22--The number of civilians killed in Iraq last month reached a record 3,709, most of them the result of sectarian violence, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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The United Nations has expressed concern over reports that Myanmar&#39;s prime minister has been ousted and put under house arrest and urged the military government to remain committed to a promised &quot;road map&quot; to democracy.
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Civilian deaths rose in August to their second-highest monthly level this year, according to figures compiled Saturday by The Associated Press. That raises questions about whether U.S. strategy is working days before Congress receives landmark reports that will decide the course of the war.
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China will be asked to do more to encourage the military rulers of Myanmar to engage in dialogue with the opposition, the U.N. special envoy to the troubled Southeast Asian nation said on Thursday.
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United Nations, Aug 18 - The United Nations has told the ruling military Junta in Myanmar that its process for transition to democracy and national reconciliation will lack &quot;credibility&quot; unless it engages the opposition political parties and releases ...
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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Buddhist monks staged a new protest Friday against Myanmar&#39;s ruling junta, which is under mounting international pressure as it faces the most sustained challenge to its rule in nearly 20 years.
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About 10,000 Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar's central city of Mandalay on Saturday, witnesses said, in one of the largest demonstrations against the country's repressive military regime since a democratic uprising in 1988.
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Tens of thousands of people joined Buddhist monks on marches in Myanmar's former capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
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Rates of pregnancy-related deaths  in south Sudan are the highest in the world, a United Nations  Population Fund (UNFPA) official said.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council told Myanmar on Friday to prosecute those who committed abuses during a crackdown on peaceful monk-led protests and free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.
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It is now more than obvious that developments in Myanmar have taken a sad turn. The harden- ing of the junta&#39;s position does not augur well for future United Nations involvement.