In Her Film About Afghan Life, the Woman Slaps Back - The New York Times

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KABUL, Afghanistan — He raised his hand, ready to assert what he considered his right in a male-dominated society where the husband’s word is final. She was an accomplished police detective feared by the city’s criminals, and also a wife and mother of two. Her duties clashed with the expectations at home, despite all her efforts to balance them. There on the movie screen, he slapped her — and she slapped back. Harder.
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Long Divided, Iran Unites Against Trump and Saudis in a Nationalist Fervor - The New York Times

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TEHRAN — The busiest square in Tehran is dominated by an enormous billboard with a drawing of a young man in the uniform of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, extending his hand to invite Iranians to follow his path. Underneath the image, teenagers line up, flashing victory signs, as they take selfies with the placard in the background. In life, the man on the billboard, 26-year-old Mohsen Hojaji, was just as anonymous as the thousands of other Iranians who have rotated in and out of war zones in Iraq and Syria in recent years.
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Amazon, in Hunt for Lower Prices, Recruits Indian Merchants - The New York Times

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MUMBAI, India — Americans shopping on Amazon.com this holiday season may find that the best deals for popular gifts like leather shoes and luxury bedding are coming from an unexpected source: Indian merchants. Amazon, always on the lookout for ways to lower prices, has been aggressively recruiting Indian vendors to sell their goods directly on the e-commerce giant’s American site. At least 27,000 Indian sellers have signed up since Amazon began the outreach two years ago.
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Pope Francis’ Dilemma in Myanmar: Whether to Say ‘Rohingya’ - The New York Times

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ROME — Pope Francis received a special plea this month in the Vatican from Cardinal Charles Maung Bo of Myanmar, the overwhelmingly Buddhist nation where the pope will make his 21st, and perhaps most politically perilous, foreign trip beginning Monday. Don’t say “Rohingya.” “It is a very contested term, and the military and government and the public would not like him to express it,” Cardinal Bo said in an interview during which he himself avoided using the word, referring only to Muslims who are
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Myanmar General’s Purge of Rohingya Lifts His Popular Support - The New York Times

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YANGON, Myanmar — The most powerful person in Myanmar now, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, was little known outside the country’s military circles until the villages started burning. Within just a few weeks in 2009, his forces drove tens of thousands of people out of two ethnic enclaves in eastern Myanmar — first the Shan, near the Thai border, then the Kokang, closer to China.
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