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The U.N.-brokered deal to extend Ukrainian grain exports was set to expire on Saturday and will now continue for at least another 120 days. (Image credit: OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

BANGKOK — Myanmar’s military-controlled government announced Thursday it was releasing and deporting an Australian academic, a Japanese filmmaker, an ex-British diplomat and an American as part of a broad prisoner amnesty to mark the country’s National Victory Day. Australian Sean

Moscow has agreed to renew the deal that allows Ukrainian agricultural products to be exported through the Black Sea region, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said.

Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben-Ari, founders of Otzma Yehudit who are both banned from running in elections due to incitement, to start new, even more extreme party

Myanmar’s expected release of more than 5,700 prisoners is expected to include the U.K.’s former envoy to the Asian country, an Australian economist and a Japanese filmmaker, according to state media. (Image credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Man codenamed ‘Husam’ apprehended by Turkish police in Azaz, currently under the control of the Ankara-backed Syrian opposition, bringing number of arrests in case to 51

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The amnesty is unlikely to improve Myanmar’s relations with the West, which frayed after a military coup derailed the country’s transition to democracy.