{
  "id": 16140547,
  "title": "Rare Suu Kyi phone call to son signals shift in Myanmar junta strategy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/rare-suu-kyi-phone-call-to-son-signals-shift-in-myanmar-junta-strategy",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-23T01:33:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3371841/rare-suu-kyi-phone-call-son-signals-shift-myanmar-junta-strategy"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The son of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi said she sounded “fairly healthy” after speaking to the detained ex-democratic leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years. Suu Kyi, 81, is under house arrest in the capital, Naypyidaw, according to Myanmar authorities, where she has been sequestered since being unseated in a 2021 military coup. “She was sounding fairly healthy,” Kim Aris,…",
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    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Detained Myanmar leader Suu Kyi is allowed her first call with her son in 5 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/detained-myanmar-leader-suu-kyi-is-allowed-her-first-call-with-her",
        "published": "2026-10-22T14:02:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Mainichi",
        "title": "Detained Myanmar leader Suu Kyi is allowed her first call with her son in 5 years",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/detained-myanmar-leader-suu-kyi-is-allowed-her-first-call-with-her",
        "published": "2026-10-23T01:00:09.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}