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The Met Police busted the Palestine Action Group's plan to disrupt the London Stock Exchange on Monday by arresting six pro-Palestine protesters across the UK.

The UN request urgent funding for their life-saving assistance to the victims of Cyclone Mocha, which killed over 450 people, in Myanmar and Bangladesh. The appeal will also help support thousands of Rohingya people, after the storm destroyed refugee camps.

If a settlement is not reached, the case will be pursued in the High Court in London, the legal firm warned in a statement.

A former British envoy, an Australian economic adviser and a Japanese journalist left Myanmar Thursday as the junta released almost 6,000 prisoners, an AFP correspondent and diplomatic sources said.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi sentenced to three years for electoral fraud: source

Vicky Bowman, who served as envoy from 2002 to 2006, was detained for failing to declare she was living at an address different from the one listed on her foreigner's registration certificate

Rohingya refugees mark 'Genocide Remembrance Day'

Myanmar Rohingya Muslims protested across refugee camps in neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of clashes between Rohingya insurgents and Myanmar security forces that drove hundreds of thousands of Rohingya from their homes.

Fuel price hikes, scarce rice add to hardship in Myanmar

UN Myanmar envoy begins talks with junta chief

Rohingya demand security as UN rights chief visits Bangladesh camps

Myanmar's ambassador to China died suddenly on Sunday in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, according to an obituary in Myanmar state media and diplomatic sources in Beijing.

Malaysia is set to lead a push for tougher action on Myanmar when a regional bloc of foreign ministers meet this week.

Myanmar's junta has executed four prisoners, state media said Monday, in the country's first use of capital punishment in decades.

Ousted Myanmar leader Suu Kyi's solitary confinement: what we know

The Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN should rethink its approach to engaging with Myanmar and demand specific actions and timeframes to end hostilities in the military-ruled country, a United Nations expert said on Thursday.

United Nations investigators released a statement, saying that more than 1,000 people may have been killed in crimes against humanity and war crimes since the coup.

Save the Children said later Saturday that two of its Myanmar staff had been "caught up" in the incident and were missing.

Facebook has been accused of being slow to respond to abusive posts portraying Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims in sub-human terms

In Britain, daily infections have climbed, averaging more than 50,000 since last week, with Delta taking hold in many areas.

Myanmar is set to receive four million vaccine doses from China by the first week of August -- too late for those fighting for breath.

The accused's defense attorney, Joseph Chen, asked for a reduction in the jail sentence. He painted his client as a mentally disordered mother, and said she was remorseful of what she had done.

Myanmar's security forces have struggled to quell protests and a civil disobedience movement aimed at overturning the February 1 military coup.

Fears are also growing that a broader conflict could erupt in a country plagued for decades by on-and-off fighting between the military and rebel ethnic armies.

UN Secretary-General Guterres said the crackdown was "absolutely unacceptable" and urged the Myanmar authorities to undertake a "serious democratic transition".

According to a local monitoring group, the death toll from crackdowns since the coup has climbed to at least 423.

International condemnation by Washington, Brussels and the United Nations has so far failed to halt the bloodshed.

Despite the bloodshed anti-coup movement members remain defiant.

The United Nations on Wednesday condemned the junta's crackdown, which has seen more than 2,000 arrested.

The junta has warned civil servants that "they will be fired" with immediate effect if they continued to strike.