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US broadcaster loses Myanmar outlet over Rohingya name

By GRANT PECK - Associated Press

UN agencies agree to help in return of Rohingya to Myanmar

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United Nation's special representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, speaks during a press conference, in Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 29, 2018, her first visit to the country. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

UN expert urges access to Myanmar’s conflict-hit Rakhine

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Educators from Myanmar visit Western Illinois University

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An injured man sits inside a vehicle in Muse, northern Shan state, Myanmar Saturday, May 12, 2018. Myanmar officials say an ethnic rebel group has launched an attack against the country’s military in the northern town, causing casualties. (Thaung Tu via AP)

Myanmar rebel group launches attacks; at least 15 dead

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In this April 30, 2018, image provided by Myanmar's State Counsellor Office, ambassadors from the U.N. Security Council, attend a meeting with Myanmar's Government officials, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. The ambassadors from the U.N. Security Council probing Myanmar's crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority met on April 30, with the country's leader and military chief after visiting Bangladesh, where about 700,000 Rohingya who fled military-led violence live in refugee camps. (Myanmar State Counsellor Office via AP)

UN Security Council delegation visiting northern Rakhine

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This Nov. 2, 2017, photo shows a Chinese temple in the heart of Mandalay, one of many in the city. As China’s shadow grows in Southeast Asia, residents of Myanmar’s former royal capital are lamenting an influx of Chinese migrants. They say Mandalay, once regarded as the nation’s cultural core, is losing its traditions and character. (AP Photo/Denis D. Gray)

Chinese influx transforming Myanmar’s quintessential city

By DENIS D. GRAY - Associated Press

Members of the U.N. Security Council team walk at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in Kutupalong, Bangladesh, Sunday, April 29, 2018. The diplomats, promised Sunday to work hard to resolve a crisis involving hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to the country to escape military-led violence in Myanmar. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

Top-level UN team arrives in Myanmar for Rohingya probe

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Soccer club Leeds to tour Myanmar amid ‘ethnic cleansing’

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In this March 17, 2018 photo, a Kachin Independence Army rebel watches no man's land, towards Myanmar army front line from a outpost in Hpalap mountain, controlled by Kachin rebels in northern Kachin state, Myanmar. While the world is focused on attacks on Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, a civil war rages, pitting government forces against another of the country’s minorities, the Kachins, mostly Christian. It’s one of the longest-running wars on Earth, and it has intensified dramatically in recent months, with at least 10,000 people been displaced since January alone, according to the United Nations. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

In northern Myanmar, forgotten Kachin conflict intensifies

By TODD PITMAN and ESTHER HTUSAN - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Labram Hkun Awng, Kachin civilians displaced by fighting between the Myanmar military and Kachin guerrillas take shelter in a jungle close to Tanai, northern Kachin state, Myanmar Thursday, April 19, 2018. Community leaders from the Christian ethnic Kachin community have called for urgent medical attention for about 2,000 civilians, including pregnant women and the elderly, trapped in the jungle where they fled to escape clashes between the Myanmar's army and the Kachin guerrillas in the country's north. (Labram Hkun Awng via AP Photo)

2,000 Kachin trapped by Myanmar fighting lack food, medicine

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In this May 2014, photo released by Ben Cao, Rev. John Sanqiang Cao breaks a ground on a new school in Wa State, Myanmar. The prominent Chinese pastor who has been detained by Chinese authorities since March 5, 2017 was sentenced in March 2018 to seven years in prison for &quot;organizing others to illegally cross the border.&quot; (Ben Cao via AP)

AP Exclusive: Jailed Chinese pastor’s US family seeks mercy

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Myanmar military members get prison after Rohingya slayings

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Burmese refugee community grows in south Tulsa

By JOHN KLEIN - Associated Press

Myanmar army chief tells rebels to stop demanding impossible

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FILE - In this March 18, 2018, file photo, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi listens to the opening speech at the Leaders Plenary during ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Sydney, Australia. The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on companies across the globe to punish illicit trade with nuclear-armed North Korea, yet Myanmar, which is suspected of acquiring ballistic missile systems from the pariah state, has escaped the full force of the “maximum pressure” campaign. (Mark Metcalfe/Pool via AP)

Lawmakers call for pressure on Myanmar over Pyongyang ties

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, left, is welcomed to Parliament House by Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during her state visit in Canberra Monday, March 19,2018. The Nobel Peace laureate who has been widely condemned over her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority arrived in Sydney at the weekend for a summit of Southeast Asian leaders. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi welcomed to Australia amid protests

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

Leaders, from left to right; Prime Minister of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, Cambodia's Prime Minster Hun Sen, Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alan Peter Cayetano, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and Malaysia's Prime Minister Najib Razak, pose for a group photo at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, special summit, in Sydney, Saturday, March 17, 2018. Australia is hosting leaders from the 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations during the 3-day special summit. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Southeast Asia leaders back sanctions against North Korea

By TREVOR MARSHALLSEA - Associated Press

Rights group: Myanmar army building on razed Rohingya land

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Demonstrators march to protest against a toughening Myanmar public assembly law in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, March 5, 2018. About 200 demonstrators marched against the government's plans to amend the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law, a law governing public protests in a manner making it easier to charge protesters with crimes while increasing the penalties for violations. The portrait seen in the background is Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi who led the civilian government proposed adding a clause that is punishable by a maximum three years imprisonment or fines. The placards read: &quot;Stop amending the Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law to the unfair law.&quot; (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Holocaust Museum revokes Suu Kyi’s human rights award

By ASHRAF KHALIL - Associated Press