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The February 1 coup has brought an abrupt halt to Myanmar's fragile progress toward democracy, as Suu Kyi's party was about to begin a second five-year term.

The Nobel laureate remains under house arrest on a minor charge of possessing unregistered imported walkie-talkies.

Large demonstrations were also held in Naypyitaw and far-flung corners of the country dominated by ethnic minorities.

The military has said it was forced to step in because Suu Kyi's government failed to properly investigate allegations of fraud in November elections.

He pointed out that India holds the potential to become a reliable supplier of defence equipment to many friendly nations.

Myanmar's military has announced it will hold a new election at the end of a one-year state of emergency it declared Monday when it seized control of the country.

The Myanmarese military staged the coup amid its rising friction with the ruling NLD government over the results of the November 8 general election.

The decision comes as Biden plans to turn his attention to equity issues that he believes continue to shadow nearly all aspects of American life.

The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport in Jakarta on Saturday afternoon.

Addressing the Combined Graduation Parade at the Air Force Academy here on Saturday, Singh said the transgression by China even during the Covid-19 pandemic showed its intentions.

Bir al-Abd was the site of a horrific extremist attack on a mosque in 2017 that killed over 300 worshippers, some of them fathers praying with their young sons.