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Myanmar's military leadership on Wednesday lashed out at the Asean grouping of Southeast Asian countries for excluding its generals from regional gatherings, accusing it of caving to "external pressure."

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for military activity around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex to end as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a renewed shelling and the UN Security Council met to discuss the situation.

The Defence Ministry has trained its sights on tackling Covid-19 and monkeypox during the current long holiday and is ready to set up field hospitals if the number of coronavirus patients shoots up.

The United States on Monday said there can be no "business as usual" with Myanmar's ruling military following its execution of four democracy activists, adding that all options were on the table as it considered further measures to punish the junta.

The Defence permanent secretary and chiefs of all three armed forces appeared before a parliamentary committee to defend their request for a Bt197.292 billion budget on Monday.

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would respond in kind if Nato deployed troops and infrastructure in Finland and Sweden after they join the U.S.-led military alliance.

Myanmar's military rulers have without explanation ordered all legal proceedings against deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be moved from a courtroom to a prison, a source familiar with her cases said on Wednesday.

US forces have increased their activities in and around Okinawa prefecture, with military drills being conducted frequently at bases in Kadena and neighbouring municipalities in the prefecture, which has the largest presence of US forces in the Far East.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has rejected speculation that Thailand is joining a so-called “Nato 2” or “Nato of Asia” military alliance led by the United States in a move against the region’s superpowers China and Russia.

A senior tri-service military delegation of Pakistan, headed by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, visited China, where the two sides pledged to enhance their "training, technology and counter-terrorism cooperation".

As more foreign military aircraft seemingly threaten to intrude into Japan’s airspace, the country’s Air Self-Defence Force scrambled fighter jets on 119 occasions in May, about four-and-a-half times more than the 26 cases in the same month last year.

State media in Myanmar on Wednesday blamed "terrorists" opposed to military rule for a deadly bomb blast at a bus stop in its biggest city of Yangon, an accusation denied by members of an exiled shadow government.