The Biden administration conducted an airstrike in Syria on Thursday that officials believe killed a number of alleged Iranian-linked fighters, signaling its intent to use targeted military action to push back against violence tied to Tehran.
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United States
News
February 26, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Thursday, stressing the importance of human rights and vowing to make the relationship between the two countries stronger and more transparent, the White House said.
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
Opinion
February 26, 2021
The Biden administration is struggling to reconcile two inescapable truths about Egypt: It’s an important friend and ally of the United States. And it has a repressive government that violates basic human rights.
News
February 25, 2021
Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, as his administration prepares to release a declassified intelligence assessment that will reportedly name the royal’s son and heir as complicit in the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
Africa
News
February 26, 2021
Unidentified gunmen seized 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants.
More from WPR: With the Expansion of Boko Haram, Nigeria Faces an Increasingly Transnational Threat
More from WPR: With the Expansion of Boko Haram, Nigeria Faces an Increasingly Transnational Threat
Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s ancient town of Axum between Nov. 28 and 29, rights group Amnesty International said Friday, one of several mass killings reported during a conflict that erupted nearly four months ago in the northern region of Tigray.
More from WPR: How Abiy’s Effort to Redefine Ethiopia Led to War in Tigray
More from WPR: How Abiy’s Effort to Redefine Ethiopia Led to War in Tigray
In a late-night meeting Thursday, Somalia’s prime minister persuaded opposition leaders to postpone their plan for mass anti-government protests and apologized for violence last Friday that targeted candidates running in an election that was meant to take place this month but is now delayed indefinitely.
At least two people have been killed and hundreds arrested in Niger’s post-election violence.
More from WPR: A Democratic Breakthrough for Niger?
More from WPR: A Democratic Breakthrough for Niger?
Nine soldiers have been killed in an attack near the central Malian town of Bandiagara, in an area where armed groups are rampant, a military official has said.
The Americas
News
February 26, 2021
In the two years since President Nayib Bukele won a stunning victory over El Salvador’s established political parties, the hold that the opposition maintained on the congress and other key positions has been a point of constant frustration for the young president and his fervent supporters.
More from WPR: Corruption Scandals Stain Bukele’s Image Ahead of Key Elections in El Salvador
More from WPR: Corruption Scandals Stain Bukele’s Image Ahead of Key Elections in El Salvador
A prison director was among at least eight people killed Thursday after several inmates tried to escape from a prison in Haiti’s capital, a police officer and witnesses said.
The market-friendly chief executive of Brazilian oil producer Petrobras said Thursday he would step down, paving the way for his replacement with an army general as President Jair Bolsonaro fights for greater control of the company.
More from WPR: Bolsonaro’s Sudden Interference in the Economy Could Sink Brazil
More from WPR: Bolsonaro’s Sudden Interference in the Economy Could Sink Brazil
As debate rages around the world about who should be vaccinated first, Mexico has come up with its own unconventional approach—one with no apparent epidemiological foundation. The government of populist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who campaigned on the slogan “First, the poor,” is prioritizing the country’s poorest citizens, using the vaccine as a kind of reparation for years of marginalization.
Opinion
February 26, 2021
The largest anti-graft effort in the world couldn’t stop endemic corruption in Brazil.
More from WPR: Latin America’s Anti-Corruption Drive Has Stalled at the Worst Possible Time
More from WPR: Latin America’s Anti-Corruption Drive Has Stalled at the Worst Possible Time
Asia-Pacific
News
February 26, 2021
India and China have agreed to set up a hotline between their foreign ministers as the two nuclear-armed neighbors look to reduce tensions along a disputed Himalayan border where their troops have been locked in confrontation since last summer.
Facebook ended a one-week blackout of Australian news on its popular social media site Friday and announced preliminary commercial agreements with three small local publishers.
More from WPR: Facebook Provokes Fury Down Under
More from WPR: Facebook Provokes Fury Down Under
India has announced sweeping rules that could force social media companies to break into encrypted messages and take down posts New Delhi deems contentious.
Police dispersed protesters in Myanmar’s two biggest cities Friday, firing stun grenades, rubber bullets and guns into the air, witnesses said, as the challenge to the army’s bid to reimpose its rule showed no sign of slackening.
More from WPR: The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
More from WPR: The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
South Korea has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis and food shortages unfolding in North Korea as leader Kim Jong Un grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Opinion
February 26, 2021
Foreign passport holders risk being trapped in China by nervous authorities.
More from WPR: China Targets the Last Vestige of Hong Kong’s Democracy
More from WPR: China Targets the Last Vestige of Hong Kong’s Democracy
Europe
News
February 26, 2021
Shamima Begum, who as a schoolgirl left her London home to join the Islamic State in Syria in 2015, lost a series of appeals before Britain’s Supreme Court on Friday that could have allowed her to return home to fight the removal of her citizenship, a move that could affect other British citizens held in detention camps in Syria.
Hundreds took to the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday to demand the release of opposition leader Nika Melia, after his detention threatened to intensify a political crisis that led to the prime minister’s resignation last week.
Hundreds of police in Germany carried out dawn raids on 27 homes and business premises Friday, including a lawyer’s office, in an operation targeting members of far-right groups suspected of drugs and weapons trafficking, public broadcaster MDR said.
Opinion
February 26, 2021
In Tbilisi, many hope that the Biden administration will take a more active role, as the president himself has pledged. As Winston Churchill is often quoted as saying, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” Those concerned about the future of Georgia’s democracy are hoping that the time has come to do so.
Middle East & North Africa
News
February 26, 2021
Heavy fighting between rebels and government forces in Yemen’s oil-rich Marib has killed at least 27 people, tribal leaders and security officials said Firday, amid a resurgence of violence in the area.
Iran is threatening to end a deal struck with the U.N. nuclear watchdog last weekend temporarily salvaging much monitoring of its activities if the agency’s board endorses a U.S.-led push to criticise Tehran next week, an Iranian position paper shows.
The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Thursday on a top police security official in Yemen’s capital, which is controlled by Houthi rebels, citing his prominent role in intimidations, systematic arrests, detentions, torture, sexual violence “and rape against politically active women.”
United States
News
February 26, 2021
The Biden administration conducted an airstrike in Syria on Thursday that officials believe killed a number of alleged Iranian-linked fighters, signaling its intent to use targeted military action to push back against violence tied to Tehran.
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Thursday, stressing the importance of human rights and vowing to make the relationship between the two countries stronger and more transparent, the White House said.
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
Opinion
February 26, 2021
The Biden administration is struggling to reconcile two inescapable truths about Egypt: It’s an important friend and ally of the United States. And it has a repressive government that violates basic human rights.
News
February 25, 2021
Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, as his administration prepares to release a declassified intelligence assessment that will reportedly name the royal’s son and heir as complicit in the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
The order is intended to help insulate the economy from future shortages of critical imported components by making the United States less reliant on foreign supplies.
President Biden reopened the country Wednesday to people seeking green cards, ending a ban on legal immigration that President Donald Trump imposed last spring, citing what he said was the need to protect American jobs during the pandemic.
President Biden promised to restore the United States’ reputation as a “beacon for the globe” by reopening the nation’s doors to immigrants and refugees. But he has infuriated some supporters by expelling tens of thousands of migrants, restoring an unlicensed shelter for migrant children and struggling to implement policy changes without a full staff in place.
More from WPR: Biden’s Immigration Imperatives
More from WPR: Biden’s Immigration Imperatives
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez says that antinarcotics cooperation with the United States could “collapse” if U.S. authorities believe “false testimony” accusing him of cooperating with traffickers.
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
February 24, 2021
Even through a video screen, you could feel the warm fuzzies between President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the two met Tuesday for a symbolic rebooting of neighborly relations grown testy over the past four years.
President Biden on Wednesday will formally order a 100-day government review of potential vulnerabilities in U.S. supply chains for critical items, including computer chips, medical gear, electric-vehicle batteries and specialized minerals.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday the United States will vie for a seat at the U.N.’s human rights body, which would cement a U.S. return to a Geneva-based body that was shunned by the Trump administration.
Newly proposed U.S. legislation targets Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow.
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
The Americas
News
February 26, 2021
In the two years since President Nayib Bukele won a stunning victory over El Salvador’s established political parties, the hold that the opposition maintained on the congress and other key positions has been a point of constant frustration for the young president and his fervent supporters.
More from WPR: Corruption Scandals Stain Bukele’s Image Ahead of Key Elections in El Salvador
More from WPR: Corruption Scandals Stain Bukele’s Image Ahead of Key Elections in El Salvador
A prison director was among at least eight people killed Thursday after several inmates tried to escape from a prison in Haiti’s capital, a police officer and witnesses said.
The market-friendly chief executive of Brazilian oil producer Petrobras said Thursday he would step down, paving the way for his replacement with an army general as President Jair Bolsonaro fights for greater control of the company.
More from WPR: Bolsonaro’s Sudden Interference in the Economy Could Sink Brazil
More from WPR: Bolsonaro’s Sudden Interference in the Economy Could Sink Brazil
As debate rages around the world about who should be vaccinated first, Mexico has come up with its own unconventional approach—one with no apparent epidemiological foundation. The government of populist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who campaigned on the slogan “First, the poor,” is prioritizing the country’s poorest citizens, using the vaccine as a kind of reparation for years of marginalization.
Opinion
February 26, 2021
The largest anti-graft effort in the world couldn’t stop endemic corruption in Brazil.
More from WPR: Latin America’s Anti-Corruption Drive Has Stalled at the Worst Possible Time
More from WPR: Latin America’s Anti-Corruption Drive Has Stalled at the Worst Possible Time
News
February 25, 2021
Venezuela’s government Wednesday ordered the expulsion of the chief European Union diplomat in the South American nation following the bloc’s decision to impose sanctions on several Venezuelan officials accused of undermining democracy or violating human rights.
More from WPR: Venezuela’s Opposition Is Clinging to a Failed Strategy
More from WPR: Venezuela’s Opposition Is Clinging to a Failed Strategy
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez says that antinarcotics cooperation with the United States could “collapse” if U.S. authorities believe “false testimony” accusing him of cooperating with traffickers.
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
Police officers in Colombia killed 86 people last year, according to a local NGO which reported “structural and systematic” abuses in the South American nation’s police force.
More from WPR: In Colombia, Police Brutality Fuels Deadly Unrest as Protesters Demand Reform
More from WPR: In Colombia, Police Brutality Fuels Deadly Unrest as Protesters Demand Reform
Ecuador on Wednesday raised the death toll from riots in four jails to 79, including 18 prisoners who were found dismembered at one site, one of the bloodiest outbreaks of prison violence in the country’s history.
The hope brought by the arrival of the first vaccines in South America is hardening into anger as inoculation campaigns have spiraled into scandal, cronyism and corruption, rocking national governments and sapping trust in the political establishment.
February 24, 2021
Even through a video screen, you could feel the warm fuzzies between President Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the two met Tuesday for a symbolic rebooting of neighborly relations grown testy over the past four years.
Newly proposed U.S. legislation targets Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez as allegations of ties to drug trafficking grow.
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
More from WPR: In Honduras, Corruption Kills
More than 60 inmates were killed Tuesday in the worst prison riots in Ecuador’s history, as rival gangs battled for control of the country’s growing drug trade.
Board members of Brazilian oil giant Petrobras on Tuesday paved the way for approval of a retired general with no industry experience to take the helm of the state-controlled company, sparking fears of government meddling in pricing.
Hundreds of Ecuadorean indigenous protesters arrived in the capital Quito on Tuesday to demand a recount of the Feb. 7 presidential election after official results showed indigenous activist Yaku Perez did not advance to the runoff vote.
More from WPR: Is Another Pink Tide About to Hit Ecuador?
More from WPR: Is Another Pink Tide About to Hit Ecuador?
Europe
News
February 26, 2021
Shamima Begum, who as a schoolgirl left her London home to join the Islamic State in Syria in 2015, lost a series of appeals before Britain’s Supreme Court on Friday that could have allowed her to return home to fight the removal of her citizenship, a move that could affect other British citizens held in detention camps in Syria.
Hundreds took to the streets of the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Friday to demand the release of opposition leader Nika Melia, after his detention threatened to intensify a political crisis that led to the prime minister’s resignation last week.
Hundreds of police in Germany carried out dawn raids on 27 homes and business premises Friday, including a lawyer’s office, in an operation targeting members of far-right groups suspected of drugs and weapons trafficking, public broadcaster MDR said.
Opinion
February 26, 2021
In Tbilisi, many hope that the Biden administration will take a more active role, as the president himself has pledged. As Winston Churchill is often quoted as saying, “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.” Those concerned about the future of Georgia’s democracy are hoping that the time has come to do so.
News
February 25, 2021
Venezuela’s government Wednesday ordered the expulsion of the chief European Union diplomat in the South American nation following the bloc’s decision to impose sanctions on several Venezuelan officials accused of undermining democracy or violating human rights.
More from WPR: Venezuela’s Opposition Is Clinging to a Failed Strategy
More from WPR: Venezuela’s Opposition Is Clinging to a Failed Strategy
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan warned of an attempted military coup against him Thursday, and thousands took to the streets of the capital to support him after the army demanded he and his government resign.
Every person involved in the 2017 murder of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been apprehended, Malta’s national police chief has declared.
More from WPR: How the Murder of a Journalist in Malta Exposed Europe’s Corruption Problem
More from WPR: How the Murder of a Journalist in Malta Exposed Europe’s Corruption Problem
European Union leaders will meet Thursday to try to speed up the production and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in a race against the emergence of new variants that some fear could bring a third wave of the pandemic across the continent.
Opinion
February 25, 2021
Nord Stream 2, a direct pipeline from Russia to Germany, isn’t going away. Neither is the clamor to cancel it.
The pushback against racial, gender and social-justice activism has long been a hallmark of the ultranationalist governments of Hungary and Poland, which have accused the European Union of imposing its allegedly “woke” agenda, especially on LGBTQ rights. But the war on wokeness has now taken root in Britain and France, where more moderate conservative governments have now made it their cri de coeur.
Africa
News
February 26, 2021
Unidentified gunmen seized 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants.
More from WPR: With the Expansion of Boko Haram, Nigeria Faces an Increasingly Transnational Threat
More from WPR: With the Expansion of Boko Haram, Nigeria Faces an Increasingly Transnational Threat
Eritrean soldiers killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s ancient town of Axum between Nov. 28 and 29, rights group Amnesty International said Friday, one of several mass killings reported during a conflict that erupted nearly four months ago in the northern region of Tigray.
More from WPR: How Abiy’s Effort to Redefine Ethiopia Led to War in Tigray
More from WPR: How Abiy’s Effort to Redefine Ethiopia Led to War in Tigray
In a late-night meeting Thursday, Somalia’s prime minister persuaded opposition leaders to postpone their plan for mass anti-government protests and apologized for violence last Friday that targeted candidates running in an election that was meant to take place this month but is now delayed indefinitely.
At least two people have been killed and hundreds arrested in Niger’s post-election violence.
More from WPR: A Democratic Breakthrough for Niger?
More from WPR: A Democratic Breakthrough for Niger?
Nine soldiers have been killed in an attack near the central Malian town of Bandiagara, in an area where armed groups are rampant, a military official has said.
February 25, 2021
Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security in Africa’s most populous nation, officials and residents said.
More from WPR: With the Expansion of Boko Haram, Nigeria Faces an Increasingly Transnational Threat
More from WPR: With the Expansion of Boko Haram, Nigeria Faces an Increasingly Transnational Threat
Fires that appear to have been deliberately set destroyed more than 500 structures this week in and around Ethiopia’s Gijet town, an analysis of satellite imagery shared with Reuters has found, adding credence to reports of continued conflict in parts of the northern region of Tigray.
More from WPR: How Abiy’s Effort to Redefine Ethiopia Led to War in Tigray
More from WPR: How Abiy’s Effort to Redefine Ethiopia Led to War in Tigray
At least 14 people have been killed at a religious site in the Central African Republic amid clashes between armed groups and security forces, according to material gathered by rights group Amnesty International.
More from WPR: The Central African Republic’s Conflict Is Descending Into a Regional Crisis
More from WPR: The Central African Republic’s Conflict Is Descending Into a Regional Crisis
Niger opposition leader Mahamane Ousmane has claimed that he narrowly won the country’s presidential election, as fresh violence erupted a day after official results gave victory to his rival by a wide margin.
More from WPR: A Democratic Breakthrough for Niger?
More from WPR: A Democratic Breakthrough for Niger?
Ghana security forces raided and shut down the office of an LGBTQ rights group in the capital, Accra, the organization has said, after politicians and religious leaders called for its closure.
Egypt said Wednesday it has endorsed a Sudanese proposal to internationalize arbitration in a years-long dispute with Ethiopia over a massive dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile.
Opinion
February 25, 2021
The pandemic neither affected the running of the October 2020 elections nor was it an issue on the campaign trail. Why?
More from WPR: Magufuli’s Disastrous COVID Denialism in Tanzania
More from WPR: Magufuli’s Disastrous COVID Denialism in Tanzania
News
February 24, 2021
Italy on Wednesday pressed the United Nations for answers about the attack on a U.N. food aid convoy in Congo that left a young ambassador and his paramilitary police bodyguard dead.
Middle East & North Africa
News
February 26, 2021
The Biden administration conducted an airstrike in Syria on Thursday that officials believe killed a number of alleged Iranian-linked fighters, signaling its intent to use targeted military action to push back against violence tied to Tehran.
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Thursday, stressing the importance of human rights and vowing to make the relationship between the two countries stronger and more transparent, the White House said.
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
Shamima Begum, who as a schoolgirl left her London home to join the Islamic State in Syria in 2015, lost a series of appeals before Britain’s Supreme Court on Friday that could have allowed her to return home to fight the removal of her citizenship, a move that could affect other British citizens held in detention camps in Syria.
Heavy fighting between rebels and government forces in Yemen’s oil-rich Marib has killed at least 27 people, tribal leaders and security officials said Firday, amid a resurgence of violence in the area.
Iran is threatening to end a deal struck with the U.N. nuclear watchdog last weekend temporarily salvaging much monitoring of its activities if the agency’s board endorses a U.S.-led push to criticise Tehran next week, an Iranian position paper shows.
The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Thursday on a top police security official in Yemen’s capital, which is controlled by Houthi rebels, citing his prominent role in intimidations, systematic arrests, detentions, torture, sexual violence “and rape against politically active women.”
Opinion
February 26, 2021
The Biden administration is struggling to reconcile two inescapable truths about Egypt: It’s an important friend and ally of the United States. And it has a repressive government that violates basic human rights.
News
February 25, 2021
Joe Biden is expected to call Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, as his administration prepares to release a declassified intelligence assessment that will reportedly name the royal’s son and heir as complicit in the grisly murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
More from WPR: Why Saudi Arabia Will Be the First Big Test of Biden’s Foreign Policy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain’s Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa on Thursday discussed Iran and the possible involvement of the Gulf state in establishing a vaccine plant in Israel, the two countries said.
Explosive-laden drones that targeted Saudi Arabia’s royal palace in the kingdom’s capital last month were launched from inside Iraq, a senior Iran-backed militia official in Baghdad and a U.S. official said.
Egypt said Wednesday it has endorsed a Sudanese proposal to internationalize arbitration in a years-long dispute with Ethiopia over a massive dam Addis Ababa is building on the Blue Nile.
A leading rights group Thursday accused Libyan authorities of failing to bring suspected war criminals to justice for their alleged role in crimes against humanity since 2011.
Asia-Pacific
News
February 26, 2021
India and China have agreed to set up a hotline between their foreign ministers as the two nuclear-armed neighbors look to reduce tensions along a disputed Himalayan border where their troops have been locked in confrontation since last summer.
Facebook ended a one-week blackout of Australian news on its popular social media site Friday and announced preliminary commercial agreements with three small local publishers.
More from WPR: Facebook Provokes Fury Down Under
More from WPR: Facebook Provokes Fury Down Under
India has announced sweeping rules that could force social media companies to break into encrypted messages and take down posts New Delhi deems contentious.
Police dispersed protesters in Myanmar’s two biggest cities Friday, firing stun grenades, rubber bullets and guns into the air, witnesses said, as the challenge to the army’s bid to reimpose its rule showed no sign of slackening.
More from WPR: The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
More from WPR: The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
South Korea has warned of a worsening humanitarian crisis and food shortages unfolding in North Korea as leader Kim Jong Un grapples with the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.
Opinion
February 26, 2021
Foreign passport holders risk being trapped in China by nervous authorities.
More from WPR: China Targets the Last Vestige of Hong Kong’s Democracy
More from WPR: China Targets the Last Vestige of Hong Kong’s Democracy
News
February 25, 2021
India and Pakistan announced Thursday that their armed forces would cease firing across their shared border, the first such step since 2003 and a potentially significant move toward reducing tensions between the two rivals.
Supporters of Myanmar’s military, some armed with knives and clubs, others firing catapults and throwing stones, attacked opponents of the Feb. 1 coup Thursday, as protests against the new junta continued in the country’s largest city.
More from WPR: The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
More from WPR: The Return of Myanmar’s ‘Revolutionary Spirit’
Facebook said Wednesday that it had banned Myanmar’s military from its platforms, weeks after the country’s fragile democratic government was overthrown in a military coup.
More from WPR: The Death Knell of Myanmar’s Democracy?
More from WPR: The Death Knell of Myanmar’s Democracy?
Kazakhstan will permanently ban foreigners from owning or renting farmland in the vast Central Asian nation, President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said Thursday, ending a lengthy dispute that once prompted anti-government protests.
Opinion
February 25, 2021
Beijing and New Delhi may be disengaging in the Pangong Tso lake region, but their divisions are more fraught than ever.
More from WPR: June’s Border Clash Marked a New and Tense Phase in China-India Relations
More from WPR: June’s Border Clash Marked a New and Tense Phase in China-India Relations
February 24, 2021
The Western alliance is unprepared to counter the direct and growing challenge from Beijing.