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Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing takes first foreign tour as leader, with visit to India
The tour comes as Myanmar's new government tries to consolidate its political position regionally, while continuing to wage a brutal civil war.
India’s Lloyds Metals Eyes Reopening of Giant PNG Copper Mine
An Indian iron ore producer has set up a subsidiary in Papua New Guinea to redevelop a massive copper mine that’s been shuttered for almost four decades and was at the heart of a bloody civil war.
Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations
Jelani Cobb on observing the Declaration of Independence on previous landmark anniversaries—in the wake of the Civil War, the Vietnam War, Watergate—and why we are unlikely to see Donald Trump presiding over nuanced celebrations of our history this July 4th.