Ukraine's access to the internet is under attack from Russian rocket strikes. The people are fighting back with death-defying repair crews and truckloads of satellite internet.
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It is not clear who cut the internet access.
Netblocks said that its preliminary findings suggest that the outage was centrally ordered and mostly targeted at cellular connections. It added that some fixed-line services were also hit.
The military claimed that there had been election fraud during the country s November 8 general election, which Aung San Suu Kyi s ruling National League for Democracy won with more votes than the last election in 2015.
The military said in a statement on a military-owned TV channel that it was handing power to Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. It said a state of emergency was in force and would continue for a year.
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The military claimed that there had been election fraud during the country s November 8 general election, which Aung San Suu Kyi s ruling National League for Democracy won with more votes than the last election in 2015.The military said in a statement on a military-owned TV channel that it was handing power to Min Aung Hlaing, the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. It said a state of emergency was in force and would continue for a year.The parliament was supposed to meet for the first time today after last November s election.
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Myanmar migrants hold up portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) as they demonstrate outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok on Monday.LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA/AFP via Getty Images