
The Guardian - 3 hours 50 min ago
Human rights groups and some western countries have denounced the election, the first held since the 2021 coup, describing it as neither free nor fair Myanmar's military-backed party has completed a sweeping victory in the country's three-phase general election , state media said, cementing an outcome long expected after a tightly controlled political process held during civil war and widespread repression. The Union and Solidarity Party (USDP ) dominated all phases of the vote, winning...

Newser - 22 hours 6 sec ago
An immigration judge on Wednesday granted asylum to a Chinese national who he said had a "well founded fear" of persecution if sent back to China after exposing human rights abuses there. Guan Heng, 38, applied for asylum after arriving in the US illegally in 2021. He has been in...