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US President Barack Obama has used a historic speech in Burma to urge an end to sectarian unrest in the western state of Rakhine, saying there was "no excuse for violence against innocent people".
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has told an ecstatic crowd of Burma migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them, on the first stop of her first trip abroad in 24 years.
Authorities imposed martial law in an area of Burma's western Rakhine State after Muslims allegedly torched hundreds of houses and killed at least five people.
Burma's parliament convened without Aung San Suu Kyi and newly-elected members of her party, according to an AFP photographer, amid a dispute over the swearing-in oath.
A deadly wave of violence has swept through Burma after an allegation against three Muslim men turned violent.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague is meeting Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after meeting top leaders in the capital Nay Pyi Taw.
Burma has set up a new commission to probe sectarian clashes that saw scores killed and displaced tens of thousands.
Aung San Suu Kyi has called for a "non-violent revolution" in Burma after being freed from years of house arrest, as Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd discusses democray with the pro-democracy leader.
The government of Burma has announced the start of laws giving workers the right to form unions and stage strikes.
Aung San Suu Kyi has voiced guarded hope that democracy will come to Burma as the opposition leader warmly welcomed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the home that was her prison for years.
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