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YANGON, July 22 (Reuters) - An explosion in a car parked metres away from a radical Buddhist monk wounded four people at a mass sermon in northern Myanmar, police said on Monday. The unexplained blast ...

A Myanmar monk infamous for his bilious anti-Muslim tirades has been banned from giving sermons for a year by the country's top Buddhist body, an unprecedented slapdown to a man whose hate speech has ...

Religious leaders in Myanmar agree with a ban that stops an anti-Muslim monk giving sermons but they say that more needs to be done to address hate speech in the country. Government-backed monks from ...

Wirathu, who's been dubbed the "Buddhist bin Laden," has repeatedly used his speeches to verbally attack Muslims. The country's highest religious authority has banned his sermons for one year in a bid ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — A Myanmar court sentenced a Dutch citizen to three months in prison Thursday for interfering with a religious observance by unplugging an amplifier blasting a late-night ...

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