Myanmar military reports 50 percent turnout in first election phase
Military hails elections as a victory despite criticism from rights groups and reduced turnout compared with past polls.

Military hails elections as a victory despite criticism from rights groups and reduced turnout compared with past polls.







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Witnesses at the hospital and the UN say the attack killed medics, patients and may ‘amount to a war crime’.

An air attack by Myanmar’s military government has hit a hospital in Rakhine state, killing at least 30 people.
UN officials condemn a deadly strike on a Rakhine hospital and warn the attack may constitute a war crime.
Myanmar now the world’s main source of illicit opium following decline of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, the UN says.
From Ukraine to Myanmar and Burkina Faso, Al Jazeera examines martial law and its effects on civilians.
Alexander Lukashenko’s visit comes shortly before military government holds national polls widely condemned as a sham.
Order reduces sentences for 3,085 people and drops charges against another 5,580 people still at large.