A month ago, The Economist asked a simple question: " Is Aung San Suu Kyi dead? " Myanmar's democratically-elected leader hadn't been seen or heard since 2022, when the generals jailed her for 33 years after re-seizing power.
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COLOMBIA
Monday’s 7.4-magnitude earthquake in western Colombia has left at least 160 dead, thousands missing, and dozens of buildings collapsed, prompting a disaster declaration from the newly-elected ‘El Tigre’ de la Espriella. (Guardian)
UNITED STATES
The Washington Post has revealed President Trump left last month’s NATO summit in Turkey under an elaborate ruse that featured him boarding Air Force One, then secretly exiting via a catering cart to instead board a military jet! All amid a credible Iranian assassination threat. (WaPo $)
INDIA
Delhi has said it’s “closely following” the bipartisan sanctions bill the US House has now introduced, days after it cleared the Senate. Named after — and inspired by — the late Lindsey Graham, it’d impose 100% tariffs on the biggest buyers of Russian energy (particularly India and China). (The Hill)
CHINA
Beijing has declared India’s decision to standardise the names of 27 places in Arunachal Pradesh “illegal, null and void”, insisting the border area (which Beijing calls Zangnan, or Southern Tibet) actually belongs to China. India controls all 27 locations, and was responding to China’s own periodic renaming of the area since 2017. (New Indian Express)
AUSTRALIA
Two critical subsea cables off Australia’s west coast suffered faults in quick succession over the weekend, with the owner now calling on federal police to investigate amid claims of “very suspicious activity” from a nearby vessel. (ABC)
LIBYA
Libya’s central bank governor (Issa) has resigned without explanation, barely a year or so after a UN-backed deal installed him to end a bitter east-west factional standoff over the country’s oil revenues. (Libya Herald)
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