Yangon - A close ally of detained Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was granted amnesty by junta authorities as he ...

From a distance, Jonathan Becker's book party Wednesday night was much like the portraits he has captured for more than 50 ...

The Nobel Peace Prize has seen both celebrated and controversial awards over the years. Notable recipients include Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela, while Mahatma Gandhi was famously ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A nationwide census was launched Tuesday by Myanmar’s military government, which says it will be used to ...

was its most direct offer of peace talks since it seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February ...

Pope Francis engages with Jesuits in Indonesia, East Timor, and Singapore, discussing their missions, challenges, and the ...

Cuban political prisoner Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara has been awarded the prestigious Rafto Prize for Human Rights for his ...

OSLO Norway - A Norwegian human rights foundation gave its annual prize on Thursday to jailed Cuban dissident leader Luis ...

Four past laureates of the Rafto prize — Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, East Timor's Jose Ramos-Horta, South Korea's Kim Dae-jung and Iran's Shirin Ebadi — later went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The military came to power in February 2021 after deposing the elected civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi and triggering nationwide street protests that it violently crushed. The protest ...

Local residents wade through flooded water at a broken bridge, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo) A women and child wade through a flooded road, in Naypyitaw, ...

Myanmar is wracked by a civil war that began in 2021 after the army seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi. Independent analysts believe the ruling military controls much ...