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Myanmar military chief General Min Aung Hlaing (L) and National League for Democracy (NLD) party leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) shake hands after their meeting at the Commander in-Chief's office in Naypyidaw in 2016. (Phyo Hein Kyaw / AFP)

Washington has urged the leaders of Myanmar's new military regime to refrain from violence and relinquish power, after the death of a young anti-coup protester sparked new anger against the junta.

 A member of the Myanmar health department wears protective gear as he approaches an airline passenger to check their temperature after the flight landed at Yangon International Airport in Yangon on February 19, 2020. (Sam Yeh / AFP)

Myanmar has announced that all passengers travelling from Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Iran, China, and South Korea must go into mandatory quarantine for 14 days or return home if they arrived in the country unannounced.

 This photo taken on February 29, 2020 shows a man wearing a face mask sitting on a chair in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. (STR / AFP)

NASA satellite images show a dramatic fall in pollution over China that is "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.

Lebanese-British human-rights lawyer Amal Clooney takes part in a panel discussion at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London on July 10, 2019. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

The luxury tourist destination of the Maldives has hired prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent it at the UN's highest court in seeking justice for Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslims.

 Lila Mubarak (2nd R) takes the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse in Chicago, Illinois on February 10, 2020. (Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP)

A refugee from Myanmar's tyrannized Rohingya minority, Lila Mubarak embodies perfectly the "poor, huddled masses" welcomed to the United States for more than a century by a bronze plaque at the foot of the Statue of Liberty.

Kyrgyzstan's victory over Myanmar was their biggest ever win on the international stage. (Asian Football Confederation)

Officials have been sent to investigate Myanmar’s massive defeat to Kyrgyzstan in a qualifier football match for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

Rescue workers carry a dead body (R) following a boat capsizing accident, in Teknaf on February 11, 2020. (STR / AFP)

At least 15 women and children drowned and more than 50 others were missing after a boat overloaded with Rohingya refugees sank off southern Bangladesh as it tried to reach Malaysia Tuesday, officials said.

 A juvenile Sunda pangolin feeds on termites at the Singapore Zoo. The endangered pangolin may be the link that facilitated the spread of the novel coronavirus across China, Chinese scientists said on February 7. (Roslan Rahman / AFP)

Myanmar is a major trading hub of the critically endangered animal as well as a major consumer of it.

 This photographs taken on January 3, 2020, shows Bangladeshi drug kingpins sitting in Teknaf. (STR / AFP)

Dozens of Bangladeshi drug kingpins surrendered in a meth hub along the border with Myanmar, authorities said Tuesday, as fears grow over a Philippines-style violent crackdown against traffickers.

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