Myanmar

"We think it isn't over. We will shift to other villages. Even if we go back to our village, there is no place to stay because everything is burnt," a villager told the Associated Press.

"This trial is clearly the opening salvo in an overall strategy to neuter Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy party as a force that can challenge military rule in the future," the deputy Asia director for Human Rights Watch said.

In offering protest asylum to journalists and protesters of authoritarian regimes, the U.S. could help keep democracy movements alive.

China is "staring at possible chaos, rising anti-China feelings, and little hope that its planned China-Myanmar Economic Corridor can be materialized anytime soon," Thant Myint-U, an award-winning writer and historian of Myanmar origin, told Newsweek.

Flynn, a former Trump administration official, has since said he sees "no reason whatsoever" for a military coup in the U.S.

The retired U.S. Army lieutenant general said there was "no reason whatsoever" for any coup in the U.S.

Flynn made the remarks during a Q&A session at a "patriots" conference in Dallas, Texas.

Lewisville has become home to thousands of refugees from Chin state, acting as a safe haven and a hive of activism for those opposed to the military junta again running Myanmar.

U.N. special envoy Christine Schraner Burgener said a civil war "could happen" because citizens are frustrated, are engaging in more offensive actions and are being trained by ethnic armed groups.

"We will investigate and consider whether the party should be dissolved, and whether the perpetrators should be punished as traitors," Myanmar's military Union Election Commission chairman, Thein Soe, said of Suu Kyi's party.

The military, also known as the Tatmadaw, is also limiting access to only fiber data connections that are available to a small portion of the population. It is developing an "intranet" for inside the country that allows access to only approved applications.

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced it imposed sanctions on 16 people total, with three of them being adult children of three senior military officials previously designated for U.S. sanctions.

"It is inhumane to be beaten and arrested. He never violated journalistic ethics. That is why I want to say that there is no justice in Myanmar," said the wife of arrested Myanmar journalist Min Nyo.

Myanmar's former elected leader, who is among 3,400 estimated political prisoners arrested in an ongoing military coup, said at a Monday court hearing that she is frustrated by delays in the court's response to requests to meet with her lawyers.

The international community must be prepared to stand with the wishes of all the people of Myanmar and stand against all human rights abuses in the country—not just those that the opposition leader chooses to recognize.

Myanmar's citizenry has come to expect freedom and the right to have a say in the way the country is governed.

President Joe Biden previously voiced his appreciation for McConnell's "helpful insights" on responding to the military coup in the Southeast Asian nation.

China is "promoting peace and discussion, promoting the cooling of the situation and maintaining stability in Myanmar, resolving differences through dialogue and consultation, and continuing to drive the process of democratic transformation," according to an embassy statement.

McCaul said sanctions on military leaders would be "targeted at these military thugs that have taken the country over and are killing their own people."

The tech giant is one of a number of companies facing increasing tensions with the military junta.

At least nine people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ruili, China, a city located along the nation's border with Myanmar.

As protests continue, involvement of ethnic armed forces escalates pressure on military junta.

Military airstrikes in Myanmar this week forced thousands to flee, seeking shelter across the border in Thailand.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai issued a condemnation of the Myanmar security forces' "brutal violence against civilians" while announcing the decision on Monday.

Soldiers in Thailand began to send people fleeing from Myanmar back after airstrikes shook the country over the weekend.

A recent military coup in the country saw the detention of Nobel Prize-winning leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Chinese state-owned media said 32 factories were vandalized and two nationals injured as the situation in Myanmar deteriorates.

One widely held belief in the QAnon community is that former President Donald Trump will return to power on March 4.

More than a dozen police trucks with four water cannons were deployed near Sule Pagoda in the capital, where many of pro-democracy protests have been taking place.

"Facebook is treating the situation in Myanmar as an emergency," Facebook's Director of Policy for APAC Emerging Countries Rafael Frankel wrote.