#BREAKING Britain says notified by Myanmar that UK ambassador's post terminated
#UPDATE Britain confirmed Thursday that it could no longer recognise #Myanmar's ambassador in London, Kyaw Zwar Minn (pic, L), after the ruling junta issued formal notification that he had been withdrawn for supporting the deposed government
#VIDEO: 🇲🇲🇬🇧 #Myanmar's ousted UK ambassador (seen, L), in a statement read on his behalf outside the country's embassy in London, says embassy staff are being "threatened with severe punishment" if they don't agree to work for diplomats loyal to the Myanmar military authorities
#UPDATE Britain on Thursday condemned "bullying" by the #Myanmar junta after the country's ambassador to London was ousted in an extraordinary diplomatic coup after calling for the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi u.afp.com/UMbk#KyawZwarMinn
VIDEO: 🇬🇧🇲🇲 Protesters chant slogans outside #Myanmar's embassy in London after the country's ambassador was ousted in a diplomatic coup after calling for the release of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and locked out of the building by other staff #KyawZwarMinn
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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