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<td align="left" class="feature_headline" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:22px;line-height:32px;color:#000001;font-weight:bold;">Myanmar Jails Two Reporters After Uncovering Atrocities</td>
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">The two reporters, Wa Lone, 32, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, were investigating a massacre of Rohingya Muslims committed by state security forces amid Myanmar’s ethnic cleansing campaign against the minority population.</p><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">They pleaded not guilty and testified that they received confidential documents from two police sources in December and were subsequently arrested by other officers. One police officer testified it was a sting to entrap the reporters.</p><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">More than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled into neighboring Bangladesh since the campaign began last August.</p><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">“This is disappointing … to democracy, rule of law and press freedom,” the reporters’ lawyer, Than Zaw Aung, <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/jnmvvdknksvwbbbtwtsdfwzkprwddzntftbnrfmbsjsfs_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">said</a> of the conviction.</p><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;">The court ruling was met with condemnation from the United States, Australia, France, United Kingdom, European Union, United Nations, and other press-freedom advocates.</p><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: Georgia,Arial,sans-serif; font-weight: regular;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b>Afghanistan: </b>The founder of the Haqqani network, a jihadi group with ties to the Taliban and al Qaeda which was behind many attacks on Afghan and coalition forces, <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/fygjjflylqjwdddbwbqfrwclpswffcybrbdysrndqhqrd_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">has died</a>. The Taliban announced the death of Jalaluddin Haqqani following a decade of poor health.</p><br />
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<p> • The highest Congolese court <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/gwyrrhpmpwrdccckdkwhndjpfydhhjmknkcmyntcwgwnt_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">barred</a> former vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, a top opposition figure, from running in the country’s presidential election because of a conviction pending sentencing at the International Criminal Court.</p><br /><br />
<p> • Some 400 prisoners <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/uywnndkckynshhhgsgydmszkjqsddzcgmghcqmfhywymp_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">escaped</a> from a Libyan prison amid a wave of militia violence in the capital after the Tripoli government declared a state of emergency.</p><br /><br />
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<p> • Argentina announced it would <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/hnsccgpfpnczvvvszsngmzlpdqzgglfsmsvfqmwvnbnmm_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">abolish</a> “about half” of its government ministries in austerity measures to address a currency crisis.</p><br /><br />
<p> • A <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/lzjjjychczjrmmmdrdzyqrfclkryyfhdqdmhkqnmzgzqh_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">fire</a> engulfed the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, destroying millions of items in the 200-year-old museum. </p><br /><br />
<p> • U.S. President Donald Trump <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/srsmmdhphjmtbbbctcjdltzhgrtddzpclcbprlkbjvjpj_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">accused</a> his attorney general of harming Republicans for indicting two Republican lawmakers on charges of insider trading and misusing campaign funds.</p><br /><br />
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<p> • Chinese President Xi Jinping <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/wlzggymjmfgbdddwbwfyzbtmhlbyytjwzwdjlzsdfvfjd_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">announced</a> $60 billion in loans and financing to African countries during a summit in Beijing.</p><br /><br />
<p> • Two Muslim lesbian women were publicly <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/xvcrrmqcqgrtdddptpgmstnqyvtmmncpspdcvsbdghgcv_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">whipped</a> in a Sharia courtroom in Malaysia.</p><br /><br />
<p> • One U.S. service member was <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/uwynndkckynshhhgsgydmszkjqsddzcgmghcqmfhywycw_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">killed</a> and another wounded in an apparent insider attack by an Afghan security official.</p><br /><br />
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<p> • Pope Francis <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/yqskkztvtmknsssfnfmzcnptwlnzzpvfcfsvlcgsmqmvf_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">emphasized</a> the need for silence and prayer in the wake of new allegations that he helped cover up sexual abuse.</p><br /><br />
<p> • More than 1,600 people have <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/eysbbkwqwdbfrrrtftdkpfvwcsfkkvqtptrqsphrdydqb_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">died</a> attempting to cross the Mediterranean so far this year, according to a U.N. refugee agency report.</p><br /><br />
<p> • German authorities announced they would <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/pjjmmskvkfmbhhhybyfsdbrkgqbssrvydyhvqdlhfjfvl_cpqtpggthftcplhlgmpp.html">ramp up</a> surveillance on far-right youth political groups.</p><br /><br />
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