Aung San Suu Kyi expected to keep power in Myanmar election

The National League for Democracy - led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi - is widely expected to win a nationwide election that took place on Sunday. Suu Kyi won the last election in 2011 with a landslide victory and entered into a power-sharing agreement with army generals who still hold huge power. The results of the election are not expected until at least Monday.

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