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A Dream Shattered

“I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don’t know why he chose to write it, but I’m glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can’t become a Frenchman.

Brutal attack

The junta has faced widespread protests after it seized power in a coup in early 2021, when it dislodged duly elected members of the National League for Democracy and imprisoned its leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The protests were initially peaceful and were aimed at restoration of the results of the election held in November 2020.

IMF cuts growth projection for India ‘because it got it wrong before’

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday hailed India as "one of the bright spots" in the global economy even as it trimmed its projected growth for 2023 by 0.2 percentage points, but only because, it acknowledged, it had previously underestimated the country's performance during the Covid-19 pandemic years of 2020-2021.