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The Arakan Army is making gains against the Myanmar military. What does it mean for the Rohingya?
The Arakan Army is forcing Myanmar’s military junta out of towns and cities. But recent attacks against Rohingya Muslims have left them wondering about their fate. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Patrick Winn about the situation.
Millions of Venezuelans living abroad will be unable to vote in upcoming presidential election
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is under major pressure. The country will hold elections on July 28, and he’s performing badly in the polls. Under his 11-year rule, Venezuela’s economy collapsed, oppression increased and about 20% of the country’s population left. A diaspora of millions of people could have been crucial for the electoral outcome. But as The World’s Tibisay Zea reports, most Venezuelans living abroad were not allowed to register to vote. Some experts suspect that this is a deliberate strategy by the Maduro government to cling to power.
How much change can reformist President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian bring to Iran?
Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist, has won Iran’s presidential election. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sina Toossi, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, about what this means for politics in Iran, as well as predictions for how the new president will govern alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The left defies expectations in French elections
A week ago, France’s far-right National Rally party was poised to win the June snap parliamentary election by centrist President Emmanuel Macron. That victory was thwarted by a coalition of center and left parties unifying at the last minute to defeat the far-right. The World’s Gerry Hadden gets reactions in rural villages, where the National Rally party draws much of its support, to understand better the concerns of ordinary French people outside big cities.
