LONG READ Four years after coup, Myanmar regime prepares for ‘violent, messy’ polls Pressure is building on Myanmar’s military regime to hold national elections that opposition forces have promised to disrupt. Police cover their faces to protect from the dust as they walk with census enumerators at Thae Chaung village in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western…
Trump at odds with US military veterans over snarled Afghan relocations Advocates say broad executive orders have hurt Afghans seeking to flee to the US after aiding its military and other groups. Experts say Donald Trump’s policies on Afghan refugees could be early indicator of how hardline his immigration stance will be [File: David Goldman/AP…
New Orleans, Louisiana – It was 3am on New Year’s Day, and Tyler Burt, a pedicab driver working in New Orleans’s historic French Quarter, decided to take one last fare. He pedalled to Bourbon Street, a busy pedestrian thoroughfare pulsing with music and laughter. It wasn’t long before a family of four flagged him down….