Myanmar’s war with itself

In a prisoner-of-war camp in western Ukraine, a former miner from the east is being interviewed about how he ended up fighting for Russia. His speech is slurred and one arm paralysed: the results not

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TARIQUE RAHMAN HAS LOST HIS VOICE. THAT ISN’T IDEAL for the aspiring leader of Bangladesh, the South Asian nation of 175 million. It’s also tinged with irony since, as his homeland’s de facto oppositi

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is investigating his military’s most powerful officer. Is it a political coup or a further bid to clear out corruption?

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Syria is at a “major turning point”, said ...