Myanmar pro-military party declares victory in junta-run polls

The military snatched power in a 2021 coup, ending Myanmar's experiment with civilian rule and triggering civil war, but pledged a three-phase vote, which finished on Sunday, would return power to the people. With massively popular democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi detained and her party dissolved, critics say the ballot was stacked with army allies to prolong their grip on power. Voting was not held in huge patches of the country controlled by rebel factions fighting in the civil war -- another...