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The junta has so far ignored the global condemnation, responding to the uprising with escalating strength.

On Tuesday, Myanmar's foreign ministry sent a note verbale to the UN, also obtained by AFP, claiming Kyaw Moe Tun had been removed.

UN special rapporteur Tom Andrews told AFP Monday that he does expect Suu Kyi's court hearing to be fair.

The UN Human Rights Council said it would hold a relatively rare special session on Friday to discuss the crisis.

The UN Security Council will convene in emergency session Tuesday to discuss the situation in Myanmar.

Suu Kyi -- a former democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner whose image internationally has been in tatters over her handling of the Muslim Rohingya crisis -- remains a deeply popular figure.

On Monday, a group of leading scientists and experts will be named as transition advisers to help convert the Biden-Harris plan into reality from January 20.

Suu Kyi's international reputation is in tatters and sees Myanmar facing genocide charges at the UN's top court due to the 2017 military-backed operations.

Bulldozers sent in to destroy homes of Muslims who were ethnically cleansed.

UN special rapporteur for Myanmar says the country's de facto leader could be tried for crimes against humanity or genocide.

A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.

Four tiny specimens of the new species have been found, measuring around 2.5 millimetres in body length.

Soldiers systematically disfiguring murdered Rohingya villagers with acid to deny culpability in war crimes, says Human Rights Watch.

Myanmar's state counsellor and the de facto leader was not present in the Yangon house when the attack took place.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte feels "pity" about the situation Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi finds herself in regarding the Rohingya criticism.

Myanmar finally allowed the world's media in to Rakhine state to show they are ready to welcome back some of the Rohingya Muslims who fled the country.

The Myanmar military has admitted killing 10 Rohingya people whose bodies were found in a mass grave in Inn Dinn village.

Myanmar pledged that Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home later this month. However, few believe that will happen.

A shocking video emerged online showing an endangered bear being killed inside a cage in Myanmar. The man said he shot the bear after gaining permission from the government.

The reporters had been working on stories about Mynamar's military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has caused almost 650,000 people to flee to Bangladesh.

Award-winning photojournalist Allison Joyce met Rohingya rape survivors at refugee camps in Bangladesh. IBTimes UK shares their harrowing stories.

Elements of genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims seem to be present in crisis, human rights tsar tells UN council.

Child marriage is common at Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, where marrying off a young daughter means one less mouth to feed.

Pope Francis met a group of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and pronounced the word he had so assiduously avoided only days earlier in Myanmar.

Pope's comments mark his first public denunciation of the military's "persecution" of Rohingya Muslims.

In his first public Mass in Myanmar, Pope Francis urged the country's long-suffering ethnic minorities to resist the temptation to exact revenge for the hurt they have endured.

The "will he or won't he?" issue has dominated debate before Francis' trip, which began Monday and ends with a youth rally in Dhaka on Dec. 2.

UN Migration Agency IOM estimates nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have so far taken refuge in makeshift settlements in different parts of Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar area.

The 100 most powerful images of the Rohingya Muslim refugee crisis

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed Myanmar's security forces and "local vigilantes" for what he called "intolerable suffering" by the Rohingya.