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FILE - Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, inspects officers during a parade to commemorate Myanmar's 78th Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Head of Myanmar’s military government to visit close ally China

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This handout photo provided by Mandalay People's Defence Force shows the debris of a jail building destroyed in an army airstrike in Nawnghkio township in Shan state, Myanmar, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024. (Mandalay People's Defence Force via AP)

New sanctions target Myanmar’s military suppliers

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In this photo provided by Mandalay People's Defense, members of the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, one of the ethnic armed forces in the Brotherhood Alliance, and Mandalay People's Defense Force pose for a photograph in front of the captured building of the Myanmar's War Veterans' Organisation in Nawnghkio township in Shan state, Myanmar, on June 26, 2024. (Mandalay People's Defense Force via AP)

Myanmar military loses ground one year after major rebel offensive

By David Rising - Associated Press

From left Laos' Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet hold hands for a photo session during the opening ceremony of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Southeast Asian leaders meet in Laos to discuss Myanmar war and disputed sea

By Jintamas Saksornchai and Eileen Ng - Associated Press

Local residents wade through flooded water at a broken bridge, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Casualties in Myanmar push Southeast Asia’s death toll from Typhoon Yagi past 500

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Hundreds of Rohingyas gather in the rain to demand safe return to Myanmar's Rakhine state as they mark the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus from Myanmar at their refugee camp at Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/ Shafiqur Rahman)

Rohingya refugees mark the anniversary of their exodus and demand a safe return to Myanmar

By Shafiqur Rahman and Julhas Alam - Associated Press

This shows a supermarket of Aeon Orange in Yangon, Myanmar in July 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japanese executive convicted in Myanmar for selling rice above set prices returns home

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

This shows a supermarket of Aeon Orange in Yangon, Myanmar in July 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)

Myanmar releases a Japanese executive after he was convicted for selling rice above set prices

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Myanmar Foreign Secretary Aung Kyaw Moe, Philippine Foreign Secretar Enrique Manalo, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa, Vietnam Deputy Foreign Minister Do Hung Viet, Laos Foreign Minister Saleumxay Kommasith, Malaysia Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan, Brunei Darussalam Foreign Minister Erywan Yusof, Cambodia Foreign Minister Sok Chenda Sophea, Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, East Timor Foreign Minister Bendito dos Santos Freitas and ASEAN Secretary General Kao Kim Hourn pose for a group photo during the 57th Association of southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Foreign Ministers' Plenary Meeting session in Vientiane, Laos, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Myanmar violence, South China Sea tensions are top issues as Southeast Asian diplomats meet in Laos

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

FILE - Gen. Aung San, then leader of the Myanmar government, arrives at 10 Downing Street, the residence and office of Britain's Prime Minister, in London, on Jan. 13, 1947. Myanmar’s military government held a wreath-laying ceremony in the country’s largest city Friday July 19, 2024 to mark the anniversary of the assassination of the country’s fallen independence heroes, including Gen. Aung San, the father of the country’s ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo, File)

Strife-torn Myanmar marks 77th anniversary of the assassination of independence hero Gen. Aung San

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Police investigate the scene of Friday nights shooting in Utica, N.Y., early Saturday, June 29, 2024. An officer shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday. (Kenny Lacy Jr./Syracuse.com via AP)

What we know about the fatal police shooting of a 13-year-old boy in upstate New York

By Philip Marcelo - Associated Press

A person walks outside of Aeon Orange supermarket in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, July 1, 2024. Myanmar’s military government has arrested a Japanese business executive, along with dozens of local businessmen, for allegedly selling rice at prices well above the officially regulated ones, state-run media said Monday. The reports said Hiroshi Kasamatsu, a director of Aeon Orange, was detained. (AP Photo)

Japanese executive among dozens arrested in Myanmar for allegedly selling rice above set prices

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People light candles on the sidewalk during a vigil for 13-year-old Nyah Mway in Utica, N.Y., Saturday, June 29, 2024. On Friday, June 28, Mway was fatally shot by police who’d tackled him to the ground after he allegedly pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at them during a foot chase. (Daniel DeLoach/Observer-Dispatch via AP)

Family demands accountability for police killing of 13-year boy after he pointed a BB gun at them

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Thabeikkyin Township People’s Defense Force, the group's members celebrate the 79th birthday of the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with a cake in a hut of the group’s outpost in Thabeikkyin township in Mandalay region, Myanmar, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Thabeikkyin Township People’s Defense Force via AP)

Supporters of Myanmar’s jailed leader Suu Kyi mark her 79th birthday with a flower-themed protest

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

This undated photo released by the Free Burma Rangers, shows a monastery destroyed by a Burmese military airstrike on March 31, 2024, in Papun, Karen state, Myanmar. (Free Burma Rangers via AP)

Civilian casualties rise in Myanmar’s civil war as resistance forces tighten noose around military

By David Rising - Associated Press

Hkalam Samson poses for photography together with his wife after his release from the prison in Myintkyina township in Kachin state, Myanmar on Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Hkalam Samson, prominent Christian church leader and human rights advocate from Myanmar’s Kachin ethnic minority, was detained by the authorities just hours after he was released from prison under an amnesty by the military government, a relative, a colleague and local media said Thursday, April 18, 2024.(AP Photo)

Prominent Baptist pastor in military-ruled Myanmar detained again hours after release from prison

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar's then leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during a meeting on the implementation of Myanmar Education Development in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, Jan. 28, 2020. Myanmar’s military says Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest as a health measure due to a heat wave. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo, File)

Myanmar’s ousted leader Suu Kyi moved from prison to house arrest due to heat, military says

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Thai military soldier keeps guard along the Moei river on the Thai side, under the 2nd Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province on Friday, April 12, 2024. Thailand’s foreign minister says he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far it seemed to be exercising restraint. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thai foreign minister urges Myanmar’s military to avoid violent attack on border town its army lost

By Jerry Harmer and Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Myanmar soldiers are seen on the Myanmar side of a bridge across the Moei River linking to the district of Mae Sot in Thailand's Tak province on Thursday, April 11, 2024. Guerrillas from the Karen ethnic minority on Thursday claimed to have captured the last of the army’s outposts in Myawaddy district in eastern Myanmar, virtually clearing the way for them to take over Myawaddy town, the major crossing point for trade with Thailand. In a statement by the Karen National Union, the ethnic group’s leading political body, said retreating soldiers seeking to cross into Thailand for refuge were hiding on the Myanmar side of the No.2 Myanmar-Thailand Friendship Bridge. Photos carried by Thai media showed men they identified as Myanmar soldiers resting by the bridge. (AP Photo/Nava Natthong)

Myanmar’s ethnic Karen guerrillas claim to have seized the last army base defending key border town

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

File - A camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar is seen across the Moei river from Mae Sot, Tak province Thailand, Monday, March 25, 2024. Guerrilla fighters belonging to Myanmar's Karen ethnic minority claimed Monday to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand, as soldiers and civil servants loyal to the military government appeared to be preparing to abandon their positions. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit, File)

Fighting escalates in eastern Myanmar as army holds out against resistance push on key border town

By Grant Peck - Associated Press