Myanmar junta dissolves Suu Kyi's NLD party and opposition ahead of elections.

Myanmar's military government has dissolved the National League for Democracy (NLD) party of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and 39 other parties for failing to register for an election that will extend the army's grip on power. The polls, for which no date has been announced, will come amid a deepening crisis in Myanmar, where the military is fighting on multiple fronts to crush ethnic minority armies and a resistance movement formed to counter its lethal suppression of anti-coup dissent. The election is almost certain to be swept by the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), a military proxy that was trounced by the NLD in the 2015 election and in a 2020 vote that the generals eventually voided, citing unaddressed irregularities.