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A renown dancer now runs a food stall near Mandalay due to economic hardship. Theaters and dance troupes across Myanmar have shut down after the COVID-19 ... Show more
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A popular Myanmar bridge sees a plunge in tourism since the COVID-19 outbreak and the 2021 military coup. U Bein Bridge is believed to be the world’s oldest ... Show more
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Tinubu urges African leaders to respect democracy, rule of law: Tinubu said coups d'état should be discouraged in the continent, especially in the face of ...
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Tinubu urges African leaders to respect democracy, rule of law
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Africa is less democratic and safe than a decade ago, study says: A new study found that democratic participation and “security and rule of law” deteriorated at ...
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Africa is less democratic and safe than a decade ago, study says
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Right-wingers and "lateral thinkers" in the judiciary: coup d'état with bending of the law
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EXPLAINER: How Peru Plunged Into Political Crisis: The country is in turmoil following the ouster of a democratically elected president and weeks of protests in ...
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EXPLAINER: How Peru Plunged Into Political Crisis
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Reich citizen proximity? The AfD is currently at 15 percent: Two people from the right-wing network, which is allegedly planning a coup by the current government ...
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Reich citizen proximity? The AfD is currently at 15 percent
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Myanmar junta slams US summit snub, lauds ties with China: Myanmar's junta on Friday slammed the United States for snubbing it at a regional summit and ...
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Myanmar junta slams US summit snub, lauds ties with China
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Young, underground reporters ‘fight a gun with a pen’ in Myanmar: Myanmar is now one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists. For the first time ...
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Young, underground reporters ‘fight a gun with a pen’ in Myanmar
Quick Glance: The Myanmar junta has sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to another six years in prison for corruption.
  • Suu Kyi "was sentenced to three years imprisonment each for two corruption cases" in which she was accused of accepting payments from a businessman, according to the source, who added that the terms would be served concurrently.

  • In the most recent allegation, the Nobel laureate, who has been held in military captivity since the night of the coup, was accused of accepting $550,000 in bribes from businessman Maung Weik.

  • She is currently on trial for five further counts of corruption.

  • A military television showed a video last year of Maung Weik alleging he had provided Suu Kyi $550,000 over several years.
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Business bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers as pandemic and coup keep tourists away: Myanmar’s key tourist industry is hit hard as economy shrinks, inflation surges.
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Business bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers as pandemic and coup keep tourists ...
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Toyota opens new Myanmar plant put on hold following coup: Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) said on Wednesday it had begun assembling cars at a new plant in Myanmar ...
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Toyota opens new Myanmar plant put on hold following coup
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Business is bad for Bagan’s buggy drivers. The COVID-19 pandemic and Myanmar’s 2021 military coup are keeping tourists away.

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Amid Conflict, Travel Flickers Back to Life in Myanmar: While international tourism may never fully recover, domestic travel is on the rise despite widespread ...
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Amid Conflict, Travel Flickers Back to Life in Myanmar
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2021 military coup have devastated Bagan’s lacquerware industry. Tourism from abroad drives the industry in Myanmar’s ancient ... Show more

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Seth takes a closer look at the January 6 committee investigating Donald Trump's coup attempt preparing to hold its first televised hearing in ... Show more

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Myanmar elephants suffer as the coronavirus pandemic and a military coup drive down tourist numbers. One elephant trainer told RFA that elephants become ... Show more

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Twenty elephants in Myanmar’s Wingabaw Elephant Camp are facing a food shortage - another in the litany of crises facing the nation since the military ... Show more

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Myanmar’s Central Bank has ordered state agencies to exclusively use the local kyat currency for domestic transactions ... Show more

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Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights: Sources say employers fire workers at will and impose brutal work conditions on those who ...
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Soaring unemployment in Myanmar follows junta rollback of labor rights
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Residents of Dala, a township on the southern banks of Myanmar’s Yangon River, rely on an extensive ship and motorboat system to reach the country’s largest ... Show more

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Every year, mango merchants lay out their green and golden produce in large baskets on their boats and on the banks of Myanmar’s Yangon River ... Show more

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Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 4 years in prison: Myanmar's ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to four years imprisonment on ...
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Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to 4 years in prison
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Conditions are grim for workers in post-coup Myanmar. The International Labor Organization estimates that more than 1.6 million Myanmar workers lost their ... Show more

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Strife in Myanmar Curbs Traditional New Year Celebrations: The coronavirus pandemic curbed celebrations for the past two years, and the military’s ouster of the ...
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Strife in Myanmar Curbs Traditional New Year Celebrations
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Mizoram has started issuing identity cards to Myanmar refugees, says official: The cards will mention that the possessor has taken shelter in the northeastern ...
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Mizoram has started issuing identity cards to Myanmar refugees ...
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Musician fears beloved Burmese bamboo xylophone will be a casualty of COVID, coup
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Musician fears beloved Burmese bamboo xylophone will be a casualty of ...
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When Covid-19 began spreading in Myanmar last year, Ms Zin Zin Aye started to worry for her family there. Then, the military seized power in a coup and her ...

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A pattala player laments loss of the traditional Myanmar art form. 83-year-old Kyaw Myint once studied under Myanmar’s top pattala masters ... Show more

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How a Cairo bookshop beat the odds to write its own story: Detractors said Diwan Bookstore was bound to fail. But it transformed Egypt’s literary scene.
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How a Cairo bookshop beat the odds to write its own story
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African Union | Amidst a wave of coups and a pandemic: Civil conflicts, Islamist insurgencies, a rising number of military takeovers and the COVID-19 outbreak ...
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African Union | Amidst a wave of coups and a pandemic
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A military coup and a global pandemic have dealt twin blows to tourism in Bagan. The ancient capital is one of Myanmar’s top tourist destinations ...

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Prime Minister on the verge of ?: Boris Johnson threatened with 'pork pie coup' | shz.de
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Rewind 2021: Covid, coups, Taliban...the tumultuous year that was: From the Covid pandemic to the Taliban taking over Afghanistan and extreme weather events ...
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Rewind 2021: Covid, coups, Taliban...the tumultuous year that was
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Corona denier: Australian arrested for fake coup attempt: False police officers called for a coup, recruits should arrest officials: In Australia ...
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Corona denier: Australian arrested for fake coup attempt
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Corruption, coronavirus, a coup, gerrymandering and elections: The top Ohio politics stories of 2021
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Corruption, coronavirus, a coup, gerrymandering and elections: The top ...
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Seth takes a closer look at shocking new details in the investigation of the January 6 insurrection that make it clear Trump and his gang were trying to ...

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Not a good year for Africa's democracy | DW | 12/26/2021: Military coups, Corona and controversial elections: Africa's democracy was under enormous pressure in ...
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2021 in review: Another year of living vicariously: We entered the New Year back in Level 5 Lockdown, complaining that the vaccines were not coming fast enough.
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2021 in review: Another year of living vicariously
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Review: Notable events that defined African politics in 2021 | Africanews: Though it was still a pandemic year, major summits on Africa took place ...
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Seth takes a closer look at shocking new details in the investigation of the January 6 insurrection that make it clear Trump and his gang were trying to ...

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About half of Myanmar's people could sink into poverty in 2022: UN: NEW YORK: Urban poverty is on course to triple in Myanmar, pushing nearly half the ...
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About half of Myanmar's people could sink into poverty in 2022: UN
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Myanmar is battling its worst wave of Covid-19 infections since the start of the pandemic, as the country remains mired in bitter and violent political ...

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Myanmar’s Missing Millions: Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funding from the IMF have gone missing under the military regime ...
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Myanmar’s Missing Millions
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Politicians from Turbenthal - Urs Hans throws newspapers on the floor in the Cantonal Council
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Montreal's Holiday Book Fair rewrites its story for pandemic edition: Launched in 2015, the event originally known as the Holiday Pop-Up Book Fair scores what ...
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Montreal's Holiday Book Fair rewrites its story for pandemic edition
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Myanmar’s Missing Millions: Millions of dollars in pandemic relief funding from the IMF have gone missing under the military regime ...
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Myanmar’s Missing Millions
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Claire Trevett: New poll might not trigger a National coup, but Judith Collins still at risk - and Labour has its own problems
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Claire Trevett: New poll might not trigger a National coup ...
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Myanmar coup leader says Russia to supply two million COVID shots: Myanmar reported 4,320 cases on Friday, a record for a second successive day ...
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Myanmar coup leader says Russia to supply two million COVID shots
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Despite the new government in Tunisia, the state of emergency remains in place: Head of state Kaïs Saïed overthrew the previous government in a controversial ...
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Despite the new government in Tunisia, the state of emergency remains in ...
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13 medics have been killed and around 150 health workers arrested in Myanmar under the junta's rule.

: Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive, the new COVID-19 patients at a hospital near Myanmar's border with India ...
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Myanmar COVID-19 outbreak hits health system shattered after coup: Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive ...
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Myanmar COVID-19 outbreak hits health system shattered after coup
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Half of Myanmar's population risks falling into poverty by 2022: UNDP: The dual impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Myanmar's post-coup political crisis ...
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Half of Myanmar's population risks falling into poverty by 2022: UNDP
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Volunteers and medical workers have had to move bedridden patients, still hooked up to oxygen tanks, over murky floodwaters to dry areas.

: Flooding in Myanmar has displaced hundreds of people, slowing efforts to battle a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak amid the chaos that followed the nation's ...
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In pictures: Millions mark Easter around the world under COVID-19 curbs: ROME: Millions of Christians around the world celebrated a second Easter under COVID-19 ...
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In pictures: Millions mark Easter around the world under COVID-19 curbs
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Myanmar’s Former Military Dictator Hospitalized Due to COVID-19: Than Shwe’s illness is paralleled by the collapse of the crafted system of semi-democracy that ...
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Myanmar’s Former Military Dictator Hospitalized Due to COVID-19
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Tunisia: President Saied seizes power: In a legally questionable step, President Kais Saied has taken power in Tunisia. It is the final turn in a month-long ...
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Tunisia: President Saied seizes power
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Myanmar Military's Power Grab From Suu Kyi Triggers Deadly Protests: Anti-coup demonstrations have been sprouting daily across Myanmar since the army seized ...
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Myanmar Military's Power Grab From Suu Kyi Triggers Deadly Protests
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The Burmese army is making a bad pandemic worse: The covid-19 death rate is one of the highest in the world | Asia
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The Burmese army is making a bad pandemic worse
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What is happening in Tunisia?: The Arab Spring’s democratic success story is under threat.
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What is happening in Tunisia?
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China Announces Aid Dispersal to Myanmar’s Military Junta: Can Western democracies offer similar aid without legitimizing Myanmar’s military administration?
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China Announces Aid Dispersal to Myanmar’s Military Junta
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Myanmar Shadow Government Forms COVID-19 Task Force: The National Unity Government hopes to capitalize on the junta’s incompetent response to the current ...
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Myanmar Shadow Government Forms COVID-19 Task Force
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Thai PM Prayuth faces growing pressure as former supporters embrace ‘change of heart’
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Thai PM Prayuth faces growing pressure as former supporters embrace ...
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Myanmar floods, coup, complicate growing COVID-19 outbreak: (Reuters) -Flooding in Myanmar has displaced hundreds of people, residents said on Tuesday ...
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Myanmar floods, coup, complicate growing COVID-19 outbreak
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Afterpay’s $39 billion payday makes clear the fintech revolution: The Australian-made “buy now, pay later” app has surfed the wave of a huge change in the world ...
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Afterpay’s $39 billion payday makes clear the fintech revolution
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Analysis: Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow democracy dead ends at Supreme Court
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Analysis: Trump schemes next political moves after effort to overthrow ...
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Myanmar: Military junta releases more than 2,000 prisoners: They were arrested during protests against the coup - and were allowed to leave the prison now ...
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Myanmar: Military junta releases more than 2,000 prisoners
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Doctors accuse Myanmar's military junta of hoarding oxygen as COVID-19 crisis deepens
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Doctors accuse Myanmar's military junta of hoarding oxygen as COVID-19 ...
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Myanmar: The virus and the resistance: The pandemic threatens to escalate in Myanmar. But to defend themselves against the coup government ...
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Myanmar’s coup fueled a covid surge: Since registering just a few dozen daily cases in May, Myanmar’s official count crossed 5,000 daily cases for the first time ...
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Myanmar’s coup fueled a covid surge
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Myanmar: People impoverished due to pandemic and coup: Half of Myanmar's population is at risk of impoverishment. Lockdowns, a lack of cash and an ...
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Myanmar: People impoverished due to pandemic and coup
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Seth takes a closer look at Donald Trump reportedly believing he'll be "reinstated" in the White House as some of his allies and supporters openly call ...

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COVID-19 outbreak builds in Myanmar near Indian border: (Reuters) - A new outbreak of COVID-19 is growing near Myanmar's northwestern border with India ...
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COVID-19 outbreak builds in Myanmar near Indian border
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Whichever factors flipped the country’s political fortunes overnight, a revival of military dictatorship is materialising fast for the people of Myanmar ...
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Whichever factors flipped the country’s political fortunes overnight ...