The world this week -- PoliticsRussia conducted an anti-satellite missile test that blew up one of its own satellites.The debris it created forced the crew of the International Space Station to take refuge in safety capsules.Worldwide condemnation followed.At least 2,000 migrants remained trapped at the Belarus-Poland border.EU countries have managed, however, to persuade several airlines to stop ferrying people from the Middle East to Belarus, where they have been lured by the Belarusian dictator’s false promise that they will be given refuge in the West.After a lengthy investigation, the Manhattan district attorney’s office moved to exonerate two of the men convicted of assassinating Malcolm X in 1965.The DA found that prosecutors, the FBI and the police withheld evidence that would have acquitted the two men, who were released in the 1980s (one has since died).A third man confessed to the murder and spent 45 years in prison.An American journalist was released from jail in Myanmar on “humanitarian grounds”, a few days after he had been sentenced to 11 years for unlawful association and other charges.Danny Fenster is one of the lucky ones.Dozens of Burmese journalists have been detained since the military coup in February.November 30th was set as the date for the verdict in the closed-door trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s deposed leader, on a range of charges including corruption and breaking secrecy laws.
