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YANGON, Myanmar, June 18 (UPI) -- Myanmar activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi's 60th birthday is expected to be marked by protests as she remains under house arrest.
Foreign governments renewed calls for her release by the government of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
"We will continue to put pressure on the Burmese authorities to bring about her release and to bring about change in Burma," British Foreign Minister Ian Pearson said in a radio interview with the BBC.
Aung San Suu Kyi turns 60 on Sunday.
The daughter of U Aung San, the Burmese leader who was assassinated in 1947, Aung San Suu Kyi had been living in England and was in Burma to visit her ailing mother when she spoke at a rally in 1988. She became a symbol of the movement protesting the country's military government.
Myanmar has become something of an international pariah, partly because of the government's treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi. She has spent most of the years since 1988 confined to her home, with two brief intervals of freedom and other intervals of prison.
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CHICAGO, June 4 (UPI) --
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (UPI) --
"Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes, was honored at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Awards in San Francisco, the organization said.
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