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UN urges cease-fire to tackle virus ahead of Myanmar vote

by Edith M. Lederer
| November 6, 2020 12:06 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. chief appealed for a cease-fire across Myanmar ahead of Sunday’s elections to tackle surging COVID-19 cases, expressing concern at intensifying clashes including in Rakhine State where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims can’t vote because the government has denied them citizenship.

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