Deadly Myanmar crackdown becomes test for the West
Anti-coup protesters run from tear gas and charging riot police and soldiers in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 3, 2021.
The deadly crackdowns by Myanmar security forces on demonstrators protesting a military coup are raising alarm in the West. How the US responds to calls for action on Myanmar is becoming a test of President Biden’s foreign policy team. And, Pope Francis travels to Iraq on Friday for a three-day visit, despite the pandemic and escalating violence. Also, a team of multidisciplinary researchers has “virtually unfolded” a sealed letter, never opened, from the 17th century.
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