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Nobel laureate and former leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains imprisoned. Listen to Story 180 foreign prisoners to be released on Myanmar's independence day Military seized power in Myanmar in 2021 Aung ...

open image in gallery A protester covered in fake blood flashes the three-finger salute next to an image of detained civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a demonstration outside the UN office ...

The freed inmates included just a small proportion of hundreds of political detainees locked up for opposing army rule since the military seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi.

But there was no sign off former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been imprisoned since the military coup in 2021.

There was no sign that the prisoner release would include Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held virtually incommunicado by the military since it seized power. The 79-year-old Suu Kyi is serving a 27 ...

An Independent TV documentary published today, entitled Cancelled: The Rise and Fall of Aung San Suu Kyi, lays bare her fall from grace. She is no longer the heroic figure she was in the long ...

The head of Aung San Suu Kyi’s former Oxford college has backed calls from three former foreign secretaries for her to be freed. Lady Elish Angiolini, the principal of St Hugh’s College ...

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As the clock struck midnight in New Zealand, Auckland welcomed the arrival of 2025 with its traditional fireworks display at the iconic Sky Tower. Revellers set up camp by the water, at Mrs ...

[RUNGROJ YONGRIT/EPA] A person takes photos of the crowd gathered prior to the firework display at Taiwan's Taipei 101 tower. [RITCHIE B TONGO/EPA] 1 January is a major national holiday in Japan ...