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"We stand with the people of Burma who are now peacefully taking to the streets to exercise their universal rights," says US State Department spokesman Ned Price during a news briefing in Washington, using the former name for Myanmar. SOUNDBITE
The military is deployed in the surroundings of the Palacio de Carondelet, Ecuador's presidential palace after new President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison. Officials have announced that four police officers were kidnapped following Noboa's announcement. IMAGES
The US State Department thanks Beijing for allowing detained US soldier Travis King to leave North Korea through Chinese territory. "We thank Sweden and the People's Republic of China for their assistance in facilitating that transfer," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
"It is up to China to decide who their foreign minister is," US Department of State deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel tells reporters after China's Forieng Minister Qin Gang was removed from office, according to Chinese state media. SOUNDBITE
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Foreign Affairs Minister Yair Lapid at the State Department in Washington, DC. Lapid and Emirati Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan are in Washington for three-way talks, as President Joe Biden's administration embraces and looks to expand a normalization drive. IMAGES
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