Weeks of student-led protests fast turned into a nationwide movement, forcing Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from both power and country with a rushed exit in a military helicopter. Now, under Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus, the country grapples with making peace as he looks to revive a troubled economy, reinstate law and order after one of the country’s deadliest demonstrations, and prepare a fractured society for democratic elections.
A month after a deadly landslide buried more than a hundred people in Yambali, Papua New Guinea, bodies remain under rubble. The remote island’s “perfect storm” of underlying conditions makes recovery impossible, and a repeat all but guaranteed.
Jacarezinho, the location of the May 6 deadly raid, is one of Rio de Janeiro’s largest favelas, with around 37,000 residents, and is known as an important stronghold for the Comando Vermelho drug faction.…
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