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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he was "deeply disappointed" after Myanmar's military ruler rejected his second and final request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

A A A' The U.N. secretary-general said he would lobby Myanmar's junta chief directly Friday for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, acknowledging that his high-profile mission will be "very difficult." Shortly after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Myanmar, the court presiding over Suu Kyi's widely criticized trial ...

Myanmar's highest court Monday rejected an appeal by lawyers of Aung San Suu Kyi to reinstate two key witnesses in a trial that could send the pro-democracy leader to five years in prison.

Myanmar's national police chief said Thursday that the American man who swam uninvited to the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was the "main culprit" in the case filed against her.

The trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was delayed again Friday and will resume in late June, court officials said.

The trial of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for allegedly violating conditions of her house arrest was delayed for a week over efforts to reinstate three defense witnesses, one of her lawyers said Friday.

The trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was delayed again on Wednesday after a court in the army-ruled country agreed to hear an appeal of an earlier decision barring three of her defence witnesses.

The American whose uninvited visit to Suu Kyi's home triggered the case against her meanwhile testified that he was "sent by God" to make his nighttime swim to sneak into her compound earlier this month, according to lawyer Nyan Win.

Confusing testimony and conflicting reports have emerged from the trial of John William Yettaw, the 53-year-old American whose uninvited visit to Aung San Suu Kyi's home triggered a criminal case against her.

Lawyers for Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed optimism about her case after the only witness allowed to testify for the defense addressed the court in her trial on charges of violating house arrest.

Myanmar's military government said Thursday that its trial of Aung San Suu Kyi would have no political impact, though many have criticized the proceedings as a ploy to sideline the pro-democracy leader during elections scheduled for 2010.

President Barack Obama called on Myanmar's government Tuesday to immediately free Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner detained under house arrest since 2003.

Myanmar activists shout slogans during a rally demanding the immediate release of their pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in front of the Myanmar Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 24, 2009.

John William Yettaw, 53, spent more than a month at a hotel in Mae Sot in November 2008, after he had traveled to Rangoon and visited Aung San Suu Kyi's compound for the first time.

Myanmar's junta alleged Friday that anti-government forces engineered an American's illegal visit to the house of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to embarrass the government and aggravate its relations with the West.

Myanmar's military junta resumed barring reporters and diplomats from pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's trial Thursday, sparking complaints that it was trying to hide the widely criticized proceedings from the world.

The American intruder described by one member of Aung San Suu Kyi's staff as "a nutty fellow" was John Yettaw, 53, a Mormon who reportedly told Burmese exiles in Thailand he was writing a "faith-based" book on heroism.

The trial of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi -- a proceeding that nine Nobel laureates have called "a mockery" -- entered its second day Tuesday.

A Falcon man was struck and killed by an unidentified vehicle at 9:05 p.m. Saturday on Missouri 5, 8 miles south of Lebanon.

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the U.S. man who visited her went on trial Monday behind closed doors in a prison compound.