Foreign Policy February 19, 2021 BY COLUM LYNCH The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment In the case of China, Pompeo launched a review during his final months in office, a decision that was Colum Lynch is a senior staff writer at Foreign Policy. Joan Donoghue, then in the State Department Office of the Legal Advisor, led that denial of genocide

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matters as seemingly trivial as vehicle license plate formats, or the arrest of an ethnic Serb police officer EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell on Friday said Kurti and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic would

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Myanmar's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged with violating the official secrets Suu Kyi and other government officials have been detained since the coup. Russia wanted to include language condemning the death of Myanmar security officials, which stopped approval Burma Campaign UK also reported two more airstrikes in the state early Thursday, in statement on Twitter

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