Show of force in Myanmar on anniversary
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Hundreds of riot police armed with assault rifles and tear gas moved into position at sites in Yangon where protesters staged a bloody, pro-democracy demonstration a month ago Friday.
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The European Union is set to bolster sanctions against Myanmar after the military-ruled country failed to yield to EU demands before a weekend Europe-Asia summit that was clouded by the issue.
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The United States is pressing for international action over Myanmar&#39;s military junta crackdown on peaceful protests but is expected to again face opposition from China and Russia.
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The government warned its citizens on Wednesday against &quot;all but essential travel&quot; to Myanmar as the military junta there launched a bloody crackdown on protestors.
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YANGON, Oct. 20. - A change in Myanmarâs political leadership brought fresh calls today for the military-ruled south-east Asian country to carry on with promises to restore democracy.
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a symbol of peaceful defiance in Burma, but she has been kept quiet as protests have escalated.
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Myanmar's junta sent armed police to ring key Buddhist sites on Friday, the end of an annual period of monastic retreat, to prevent any resurgence of last month's monk-led protests, the biggest uprising in two decades.
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Crowds taunted soldiers and police sealing off central Yangon behind barbed-wire barricades on Friday in anticipation of fresh protests against 45 years of military rule in Myanmar and deepening economic hardship.
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Emboldened after a march to see Myanmar&#39;s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks on Sunday launched the biggest challenge against military rule in nearly two decades.
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Myanmar announced Saturday that it was lifting a curfew imposed following a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters and ending a ban on assembly, the latest sign that the government believes it has extinguished the largest demonstrations in two decades.
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Junta to meet as Burma sees the largest demonstrations yet against the country's ruling military.
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More than 300 Buddhist monks on Wednesday took to the streets in Myanmar&#39;s main city of Yangon in the latest show of public defiance against the junta, one month after a series of protests began.
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About 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks demonstrated against Myanmar's military junta Sunday, in what has quickly become the largest anti-government demonstrations since the failed democratic uprising in 1988.
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Myanmar&#039;s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who turns 61 on Monday, will spend another birthday alone, under house arrest imposed by a junta that has ignored an international outcry for her freedom.
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Hundreds of Myanmar residents in Singapore gathered Sunday for a unique tribute to victims of last September's crackdown in their homeland -- a screening of the new "Rambo" movie.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - The photographs cover almost an entire wall, 200 simple black-and-white reminders that opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is not the only prisoner of conscience in military-ruled Myanmar.
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Thousands of monks were expected to march in Myanmar&#39;s main city Yangon on Monday, piling the pressure on its military junta after a weekend that saw the biggest show of dissent in nearly two decades.