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Streets in Yangon are empty as Myanmar marks the second anniversary of the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's government. Activists called for people across the country to close businesses and stay indoors from 10 am (0330 GMT) to 4 pm. Roads leading to the famous Shwedagon pagoda -- a Buddhist shrine that dominates Yangon's skyline and is usually thronged by worshippers -- were largely deserted. Myanmar has been in turmoil since the military's power grab and bloody crackdown on dissent, which has sparked fighting across swathes of the country and tanked the economy. IMAGES
Russian president Vladimir Putin meets with Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday for economic talks at the Eastern Economic Forum in the city of Vladivostok. IMAGES
The IMF hopes to mobilise 100 billion dollars from the world's richest countries to be distributed to countries in need, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, says chief Kristalina Georgieva in Kinshasa during her first trip to Africa since start of Covid-19 pandemic. SOUNDBITE
Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region is under "blockade", the World Health Organization chief says, warning that people are starving to death and dying from lack of access to medicines. "People are dying because of lack of supplies," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, himself a from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, tells reporters from the UN health agency's Geneva headquarters. SOUNDBITE
About two dozen riot police attempted to break up a protest in Bangkok--where scores of Myanmar migrant workers were demonstrating in front of their embassy-- and clashed with the Thai organisers of the protest who are part of the kingdom's own pro-democracy movement. IMAGES of clashes
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