#BREAKING Myanmar UK ambassador says military attache has "occupied" embassy
#UPDATE Myanmar's ambassador to Britain accused a Yangon military-linked figure of occupying the embassy and barring him access, in an extraordinary diplomatic stand-off after the envoy called for the junta to release civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi u.afp.com/UM89
Myanmar's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kyaw Zwar Minn, who has called for the junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi, stands locked outside the embassy in London.
The ambassador says a Myanmar military-linked figure has "occupied" the embassy and is barring him access
VIDEO: Myanmar Ambassador to the United Kingdom Kyaw Zwar Minn says a military attache has 'occupied' the London embassy and is barring him access to the building
A leading Myanmar actor, singer and model who has backed the country's anti-coup protests has been arrested, his sister says, as the junta hunts more than 100 celebrities for supporting the movement
#BREAKING UK condemns 'bullying' Myanmar junta over seizing London embassy
#UPDATE Britain condemns "bullying" by Myanmar junta after the country's ambassador to London is ousted in an extraordinary diplomatic coup after calling for the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi
#AFPgraphics on rights abuses by the military junta since the February 1 coup, as listed by a group representing Myanmar's ousted civilian government
VIDEO: Police stand outside the entrance of the Myanmar embassy in London after diplomats loyal to the junta seized it, leaving the ambassador locked out in the street
Myanmar's London embassy.
Myanmar's Ambassador to Britain Kyaw Zwar Minn told the Daily Telegraph that “when I left the embassy, they stormed inside the embassy and took it," referring to supporters of the military coup who were acting on "instructions from the capital"
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#BREAKING Queen Elizabeth II's husband Prince Philip has died: palace
#UPDATE Queen Elizabeth II's 99-year-old husband Prince Philip, who was recently hospitalised and underwent a successful heart procedure, died on Friday, Buckingham Palace announced.
The death of the Duke of Edinburgh is a profound loss for the 94-year-old monarch, who once described him as her "strength and stay all these years" u.afp.com/UMym
On a small boat nosing its way through the frozen waters of the Grebbestad archipelago on Sweden's west coast, Lotta Klemming scans the mist-covered rocks for the perfect spot to find a local delicacy u.afp.com/UMjr
While France may spring to mind as a more obvious place to find oysters, the Swedish archipelago is home to wild Ostrea edulis -- a variety distinct in size and flavour from those reared on farms u.afp.com/UMjr
Klemming, 31, is one of a handful of divers in Sweden who plunge into the icy waters in full scuba gear to collect the shellfish year-round u.afp.com/UMjr
Soyuz crew to blast off and mark 60 years of spaceflight.
A three-man crew will blast off to the International Space Station today in a capsule honouring the 60th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first person in space
Russian Orthodox Priest Father Sergei blesses the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad in Kazakhstan
The history of space exploration.
#AFPgraphics on the history of space exploration, ahead of the 60th anniversary since Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, on April 12, 1961
#BREAKING Biden calls US gun violence an 'epidemic'
#BREAKING Biden calls for US ban on private 'assault weapons'
#UPDATE With the US Congress unable to agree on broad new gun regulations like stricter background checks, Biden announced six executive measures which he said would help tamp down a crisis he called an "an international embarrassment" u.afp.com/UMzU
#BREAKING Ukraine President Zelensky travelling to country's frontline with eastern separatist forces after surge in violence, spike in tensions with Moscow
#UPDATE#Ukraine's President Volodymyr #Zelensky was travelling to the country's eastern frontline on Thursday, after a surge in clashes with separatist forces and a spike in tensions with Moscow u.afp.com/UMLj#Donbas
#BREAKING Putin, Merkel 'concerned' over east Ukraine tensions: Kremlin