Thailand has stressed dialogues and trust between the military and political parties to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis in Myanmar, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said.

Seven people were killed when security forces opened fire on anti-junta protests in Myanmar on Thursday, witnesses and local media said, as rights group Amnesty International accused the military of adopting battle tactics against demonstrators.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two children of Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing and six companies they control in response to the military’s February 1 coup and the killing of protesters since the takeover.

Myanmar’s military junta has removed Arakan Army (AA) insurgents from its list of terrorist groups because the faction has stopped attacks and in order to help establish peace across the country, state media said today.

Google said today it is reviewing recent advertisements run by a Myanmar military-backed telecommunications firm and has disabled some army-linked accounts on its services in the wake of the country’s coup.

The UN Security Council failed to agree on Tuesday on a statement that would have condemned the coup in Myanmar, called for restraint by the military and threatened to consider “further measures,” though diplomats said talks would likely continue.

When Tha Peng was ordered to shoot at protesters with his submachine gun to disperse them in the Myanmar town of Khampat on February 27, the police lance corporal said he refused.

An official from deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) died in custody after he was arrested, becoming the second party figure to die in detention in two days as protesters challenged the military coup in the streets.

Thousands of people took to the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city in defiance of a night curfew, chanting in anger after security forces besieged hundreds of young anti-coup protesters in one neighbourhood.

The European Union is preparing to widen its sanctions on Myanmar’s armed forces to target businesses they run, in protest at the February 1 military coup, according to diplomats and two internal documents seen by Reuters.

China is willing to work with the parties involved in Myanmar's military coup towards a peaceful settlement in the South-east Asian country.

Photos posted on Facebook showed the bodies of two men lying on the street in the northern town of Myitkyina. Witnesses said they were taking part in a protest when police fired stun grenades and tear gas. Several people were then hit by gunfire from buildings nearby.

Australia has suspended its defence cooperation programme with Myanmar, Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said, amid an intensified crackdown by the country’s military on massive protests against last month’s coup.

The escalation of violence in Myanmar as authorities crack down on protests against the February 1 coup is raising pressure for more sanctions against the junta, even as countries struggle over how to best sway military leaders inured to global condemnation.

Authorities in Myanmar have asked India to return several police officers who sought refuge to avoid taking orders from a military junta that seized power in the Southeast Asian country last month, an official in northeast India said today.

Security forces in Myanmar again used force Saturday to disperse anti-coup protesters, a day after the UN special envoy urged the Security Council to take action to quell junta violence that this week left about 50 peaceful demonstrators dead and scores injured.

Burma Campaign UK has called for all countries to halt training the Myanmar military, which has taken control of the country and is accused of severe violation of human rights.

Police opened fire today in the Myanmar city of Mandalay on protesting opponents of a Feb. 1 military coup, killing one person, witnesses and media said.

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube has removed five channels of Myanmar’s military-run television networks hosted on its platform in the wake of the coup in the Southeast Asian country.

At least a dozen people, including five members of a family, from Myanmar crossed over to India and took shelter in bordering north eastern state of Mizoram a month after the military in the neighbouring country toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said today.