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The Rohingya crisis: What can be done

In recent months, considerable ink and pixels have been spilled chronicling the growing humanitarian crisis in western Myanmar, and castigating  the Myanmar security forces for their scorched earth policy toward Rakhine State in the…

The Green Man of Russia: Alexei Navalny

After several chemical attacks that left him partially blinded, opposition leader Alexei Navalny was unexpectedly given a passport on May 4 to allow him to seek medical treatment abroad. The Kremlin irritant had lost his travel privileges…