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By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Nigel Adams, leaves the Houses of Parliament after Parliament reopened while the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said it would pursue diplomatic steps with its allies to ensure a return to democracy in Myanmar, after a military coup led to the arrest of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Britain’s foreign ministry said it had summoned the southeast Asian country’s ambassador for a meeting with Ministe...

On Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, a network of accounts is targeting the West Papua independence movement with memes and messages designed to shape international and domestic narratives about the separatist movement. The region has been beset by a series of well-documented online information operations, but some of the content posted in late 2020 claims to represent the views on West Papua of Australian officials, as well as of the United Nations and the UK government, and have reportedly been called out by the Australian government. A former Dutch colony, West Papua became part of Indonesi...