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UN chief Ban Ki-moon has met Burma's junta leader to lobby for the release of political prisoners, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Ban is holding talks with Gen Than Shwe in the remote administrative capital Naypyidaw. He has called for the immediate release of all Burma's political prisoners, thought to number about 2 100.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate, has spent much of the past two decades in prison or under house arrest.
Her trial on charges of breaking the terms of her house arrest, has been adjourned for another week.
Suu Kyi's lawyers have been appealing against the judge's ban on testimony from three defence witnesses. One additional defence witness will be allowed to testify.
"The Supreme Court did not send the case files to the lower court, so the case has been adjourned until July 10," said her lawyer Nyan Win. He added Suu Kyi had expressed surprise at the further delay.
The trial of 64-year-old Suu Kyi has caused outrage around the world. Critics of Burma's military government have dismissed it as a ruse to keep the opposition leader locked up until after next year's election.
It is not clear if Ban will be allowed to meet Suu Kyi - he would be the first UN secretary general to do so if that happens.
Suu Kyi was transferred from house arrest to prison in May after an American man swam to her lake-side house. She faces up to five years in jail if convicted.
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One of the oldest local non-governmental organizations, the UN Association of Bulgaria (UNAB), is organizing a simulation model of the European Parliament in Sofia.
The United States has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization, citing what it called a “bloated and inefficient bureaucracy” and failures that harmed the American public
The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution calling for Russia to immediately and unconditionally send back all Ukrainian children
The UN Security Council has approved a US-backed resolution endorsing President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, authorising the deployment of an international stabilisation force in the territory
A shooting at a school in southeastern Turkey left 16 people injured after a former student opened fire before taking his own life, according to local authorities.
Despite the US-imposed naval blockade targeting Iranian-linked maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, several sanctioned vessels have continued to pass through the strategic waterway
The European Union has agreed on a major overhaul of its steel import regime, effectively doubling tariffs in an effort to protect domestic producers from what officials describe as a growing wave of low-cost foreign, particularly Chinese, exports
U.S. President Donald Trump has again escalated rhetoric beyond the ongoing war with Iran, suggesting that Cuba could become Washington’s next target
Hungary’s incoming prime minister Péter Magyar has signaled that his government will not obstruct the European Union’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine, while making clear that Budapest itself will not participate in the mechanism
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