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Leftist Leader Takes Reins in Mexico, Vowing to Help the Poor

MEXICO CITY - Leftist politician Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador assumed Mexico’s presidency with a promise - to profoundly transform Latin America’s second-biggest economy and to lead a government free of corruption.

Seemingly tireless at age 65, Lopez Obrador breezed through a day of public ( Read more... )

From peace icon to pariah: Aung San Suu Kyi's fall from grace

Three years after she took power, Myanmar remains as repressive as ever. Were the warning signs there all along?

There are falls from grace, and then there is Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2015 her election to the post of state counsellor - de facto head of government - was hailed as a sea-change ( Read more... )