Police fire warning shots in Myanmar
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Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas canisters while beating Buddhist monks and hauling others away in trucks Wednesday as authorities tried to stop anti-government demonstrations, the first mass arrests since protests erupted last month.
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Police in military-ruled Myanmar have seized more than a kilogram of heroin stuffed inside 46 golf balls destined for Taiwan, a newspaper said on Wednesday.
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Shots are fired at a police car from a BMW which then sped off southbound along the M5 in Gloucestershire.
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Fears of a repeat of 1988's bloody crackdown by Myanmar's ruling generals grew on Tuesday after the junta threatened action against monks at the centre of the biggest anti-government demonstrations in nearly 20 years.
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Police in the Russian region of Chechnya  have new orders to open fire on anyone wearing a mask, the  local interior minister was quoted as saying Thursday.
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Burma's military government warns it will take strong action against those who take part in fuel protests.
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Burma's wave of dissent floods through firewall The latest reports from the turmoil in Burma say at least one person died and many were wounded today when police again shot at protesters on the streets of Rangoon.â¦
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Hundreds of riot police armed with assault rifles and tear gas moved into position at sites in Rangoon where protesters staged a bloody, pro-democracy demonstration a month ago Friday
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SEOUL - South Korean patrol boats fired warning shots on Monday to force North Korean navy vessels back over a disputed maritime border, the Southâs military said.
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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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BANGKOK - Ending nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks yesterday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons, and making scores of arrests to suppress antigovernment marchers.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta said on  Wednesday it had used tear gas and fired warning shots to  disperse a crowd of 1,000 Buddhist monks and civilians  protesting in the northwestern coastal city of Sittwe.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting monks and other political opponents Wednesday after a week of exercising caution. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, swung truncheons and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in an attempt to suppress a ninth...
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YANGON, Myanmar  -- Myanmar announced Saturday that it was lifting a curfew and ending a ban on assembly imposed after a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the latest sign that the government believes it has extinguished the largest demonstrations in decades.
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Myanmar's military junta broadcast warnings on Tuesday that included the possibility of using military force to disperse what it called unlawful street protests.
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Myanmar's junta imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the country's two main cities on Wednesday after pouring security forces into Yangon to try to end the biggest protests against military rule in 20 years.