Myanmar troops retreat as rebels declare control over key border town

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Myanmar's Myawaddy town from the Thai side. Myanmar junta troops have withdrawn from their positions in the town. Photograph: Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty Images About 200 Myanmar military personnel withdrew to a bridge to Thailand on Thursday after a days-long assault by the anti-junta resistance, which declared it had won control of the critical border town of Myawaddy, the latest in a string of rebel wins. Myanmar’s military-run government is battling insurgencies on several fronts and has suffered a series of defeats in frontier areas since last October, when rebel groups launched a co-ordinated offensive near the Chinese border. The...