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Myanmar’s embattled press faces a military coup Yesterday—after a decade of democratic transition, five years of elected government, and several days of threats, apparent walkbacks, and rumors—Myanmar’s military executed a coup and returned to power. Myawaddy TV, a station owned by the military, announced that Min Aung Hlaing—the army’s commander in chief, who faces war-crimes allegations linked to the persecution of the country’s Muslim Rohingya population—would take power. (The announcement couched the coup as a constitutional “state of emergency,” justified by “terrib...

Barred From U.S. Under Trump, Muslims Exult in Biden’s Open Door Few foreigners welcomed President Biden’s election victory as enthusiastically as the tens of thousands of Muslims who have been locked out of the United States for the past four years. A protest in New York in 2017 in opposition to President Donald J. Trump’s executive order preventing people from several majority Muslim countries from entering the country.Credit...Victor J. Blue for The New York Times Jan. 23, 2021 NAIROBI, Kenya — As the results of the American presidential election rolled in on Nov. 4, a ...

Covid 19 coronavirus: A company made PPE for the world. Now its workers have the virus 22 Dec, 2020 04:00 AM 9 minutes to read Workers at a Top Glove disposable glove factory in Klang, Malaysia. As the company enjoyed record profits, thousands of its low-paid workers contracted coronavirus. Photo / The New York Times New York Times By: Hannah Beech Top Glove, the world's largest rubber glove maker, has enjoyed record profits in the pandemic, even as thousands of its low-paid workers in Malaysia suffer from a large outbreak of Covid-19. Day after day, as the pandemic gathered...