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Suu Kyi walks on with ‘star-struck’ Bono

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Suu Kyi meets up with U2’s ‘star-struck’ Bono

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Suu Kyi walks on with U2’s `star-struck’ Bono

By DAVID MacDOUGALL and SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech during the Nobel ceremony at Oslo's City Hall, Norway, June 16, 2012. Aung San Suu Kyi said today that winning the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize while under house arrest "opened up a door in my heart," and helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland. (AP Photo/Daniel Sannum Lauten/POOL)

Suu Kyi accepts Nobel Prize 21 years later

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves as she arrives at the 101st conference of the International Labor Organization at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva on Thursday, June 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Exhausted Suu Kyi falls ill during news conference

By Catherine Gaschka and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talks to reporters as she arrives at Yangon International Airport on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar, on her way to Europe for the first time in 24 years. (AP Photo)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi on way to Europe for first time in 24 years

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says she’s too busy for Facebook

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Briefly: Few from Tiananmen believed still jailed

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (second from right) arrives at a National Verification center for Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand's Samut Sakhon province on Thursday, May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Suu Kyi presses for migrants’ rights in Thailand

By Todd Pitman and Yadana Htun - Associated Press

Bono to present Amnesty award to Suu Kyi in Dublin

By SHAWN POGATCHNIK - Associated Press

"It's so rare to see grace trump military might, and when it happens we should make the most joyful noise we can," Bono says of Mrs. Suu Kyi, who spent 15 of the past 24 years and is now a member of Parliament. (Associated Press)

Bono to present Amnesty award to Suu Kyi

By Shawn Pogatchnik - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves after meeting with Burmese migrant workers in Samut Sakhon province in Thailand on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

On Thailand trip, Suu Kyi visits Myanmar migrants

By Todd Pitman - Associated Press

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) is greeted by a supporter upon her arrival at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, on her way to Bangkok on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. The trip is her first outside Myanmar in 24 years. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Suu Kyi, in Myanmar since 1988, starts world tour

By Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (right) stands next to senior military leaders during a ceremony in honor of his father, Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Curtains open wide in Myanmar, a crack in N. Korea

By Tim Sullivan - Associated Press

Protesters hold candles during a candlelight vigil in Yangon, Myanmar Friday, May 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Myanmar power protests put new reforms to the test

By Grant Peck - Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi spent her first day as a member of her country's parliment on Wednesday. She will have almost no power since her political party holds only a few dozen seats, but she will have an official voice in government for the first time. (Associated Press)

Myanmar begins new era as Suu Kyi joins parliament

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) arrives at parliament to attend a regular session of the body's lower house in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

New era begins in Myanmar as Suu Kyi joins parliament

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (left) talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein after a group photograph at the opening ceremony of the 20th ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)

Myanmar leader praises elections as ‘successful’

By Jim Gomez and Sophen Cheang - Associated Press

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi waves to supporters after a brief visit to the headquarters of her National League for Democracy party in Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, April 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi hopes victory is dawn of new era

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press

People cheer as election officials count votes at a polling station in the Dagon port township in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, April 1, 2012. Supporters of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi erupted in euphoric cheers after her party announced she had won a parliamentary seat in the landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)

Suu Kyi leads landslide win in Myanmar vote, party says

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman - Associated Press