Myanmar's government unexpectedly allowed the country's leading opposition figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, to leave house arrest briefly on Sunday and meet with a U.N. envoy trying to persuade the junta to ease its crackdown against a pro-democracy uprising. (Source: New York Times)

However, Nyan Win also said that the antigovernment demonstrations in Yangon were staged by foreign nationals who chose a time when the U.N. General Assembly was in session. (Source: DYO)

Basil Fernando, director of the Asian Human Rights Commission, a private monitoring group, estimated the number of people arrested at 1,200, including 700 monks. (Source: New York Times)