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In this handout image provided by the Myanmar State Counsellor Office, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is shown while she attends a video conference, Friday, July 3, 2020, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. 
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In this handout image provided by the Myanmar State Counsellor Office, Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is shown while she attends a video conference, Friday, July 3, 2020, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (Myanmar State Counsellor Office via AP)

• The European Parliament on Thursday suspended Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi from the group of former winners of its top human-rights prize because of her "failure to act and her acceptance" of the oppression of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic group. A long-time political prisoner before she came to power, Suu Kyi was once admired for her nonviolent struggle against the country's military rule and she won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Burma is often called Myanmar, a name that military authorities adopted in 1989. Some nations, such as the United States and Britain, have refused to adopt the name change. In recent years, Suu Kyi has been rejected internationally for Burma's oppression of the Rohingya. More than 700,000 Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape the army's brutal counterinsurgency campaign in 2017. "The decision (...) to exclude Aung San Suu Kyi formally from all activities of the community of Sakharov Prize laureates is a response to her failure to act and her acceptance of the ongoing crimes against the Rohingya community in Myanmar," the EU Parliament said in a statement. Suu Kyi won the Sakharov Prize in 1990 but was only able to collect it 23 years later. She is currently Burma's state counsellor, the de facto head of state. She looks set to keep her position after the Nov. 8 general election, with her National League for Democracy party widely expected to again win the most seats. As state counsellor, Suu Kyi does not oversee the military, but she has repeatedly denied accusations that the army committed genocide against the Rohingya.

• Bruce Springsteen will release a new rock album that he recorded in his New Jersey home studio with the E Street Band. The Boss said Thursday the album is called "Letter To You," adding that he and the band recorded it in just five days. It will be released on Oct. 23. "Letter To You" will have nine new songs and include new recordings of three unreleased songs that predate Springsteen's 1973 debut album, "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J." The songs are: "Janey Needs a Shooter," "If I Was the Priest" and "Song for Orphans." Springsteen's last album was the orchestral-pop "Western Stars." "Letter To You" is Springsteen's first time performing with the E Street Band since The River 2016 tour. Springsteen is joined on "Letter To You" by Roy Bittan, Nils Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Garry Tallent, Stevie Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Charlie Giordano and Jake Clemons. The album was produced by Ron Aniello with Bruce Springsteen.

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Singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen attends the special screening of "Western Stars" at Metrograph on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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