WORLD POLITICS
Indonesia’s president built a direct, populist style around speaking past institutions. The applause remains, but so does a widening argument about press freedom, economic confidence and dissent.
President Prabowo Subianto’s improvised remarks have increasingly targeted journalists, analysts and critics while dismissing concern about prices and the rupiah. Conflicting polls make his political position harder to read, but recent protests and public mockery show the costs of governing by personal performance.
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MYANMAR
A Red Cross visit is a rare opening in Myanmar’s isolation of its former leader. It is not yet evidence of a political settlement—or even independent proof of her condition.
Myanmar’s authorities have released grainy images of Aung San Suu Kyi meeting an International Committee of the Red Cross delegate, the first publicised foreign visit since the 2021 coup.
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IRAN
Military confrontation has not suspended domestic repression. Iranians describe surveillance, arrests and fear intensifying beneath the international crisis.
As Iran confronts the United States and Israel, citizens and dissidents say the regime is also using the emergency to increase pressure at home.
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