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Myanmar’s post-coup parliamentsits packed with pro-junta allies

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – Myanmar’s parliament convened on Monday for the first time since a 2021 military coup, AFP journalists saw, packed with pro-junta lawmakers...

Myanmar grants amnesty to over 7,000

YANGON – Myanmar’s military junta granted amnesty on Monday to more than 7,000 prisoners convicted of financing or sheltering a “terrorist group”, a designation...

Final round of Myanmar vote set to seal junta ally’s victory

MANDALAY – Myanmar opened the final round of its month-long election on Sunday, with the dominant pro-military party on course for a landslide in...

Myanmar party claims Suu Kyi’s seat in election

YANGON – Myanmar’s main pro-military party on Monday claimed victory in the parliamentary seat of sidelined democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi in elections...

Myanmar votes in 2nd phase of junta-run election

KAWHMU – Myanmar’s junta opened polls on Sunday in the second phase of elections, continuing a vote democracy watchdogs say is letting the military...

Myanmar to free over 6,000 prisoners in amnesty

YANGON – Myanmar’s junta said on Sunday it would release more than 6,000 prisoners as part of an annual amnesty to mark the country’s...

Myanmar pro-military party ‘winning’ poll

NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar – Myanmar’s dominant pro-military party is “winning a majority” in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP Monday,...

Myanmar junta stages election after 5 years; diplomats condemn voting

YANGON – A trickle of voters made their way to Myanmar’s heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as...

Junta stages polls after 5 years

YANGON – Myanmar’s junta is set to preside over voting starting Sunday, touting heavily restricted polls as a return to democracy five years after...

Myanmar junta air strike kills 31, says worker

MRAUK U, Myanmar – A Myanmar military air strike killed 31 people at a hospital, an on-site aid worker said Thursday, as the junta...

Campaigning begins in Myanmar’s junta-run polls as reconciliation path

YANGON – Parties approved to participate in Myanmar’s junta-organized elections are set to start campaigning Tuesday, two months ahead of a poll being shunned...

Myanmar junta seizes 30 receivers

YANGON – Myanmar’s junta raided one of the country’s most notorious cyberscam centers and seized Starlink satellite internet devices, it said Monday, after an...

Myanmar junta unveils new election details

YANGON – Myanmar’s ruling junta released details of its long-awaited December election on Thursday, saying the first voting phase would cover about a third...

Myanmar junta captures key battlefield town

YANGON – Myanmar’s junta said Wednesday its troops have captured a battlefield town in the country’s east, clawing back rebel-contested territory as it prepares...
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