Morning Briefing: Special Report on Myanmar massacre

Highlights

“When they were being buried, some were still making noises. Others were already dead,” said Soe Chay, 55, a retired soldier from Inn Din’s Rakhine Buddhist community who said he helped dig a mass grave and witnessed the killings of ten Rohingya men. This is the investigation Reuters was reporting when two of its Myanmar correspondents were arrested in December.

A Reuters investigation into the killing of Rohingya in Myanmar prompted demands from the U.S. State Department for a credible investigation into the bloodshed there and calls for the release of two journalists who were arrested while working on the report.

The U.S. Congress ended a brief government shutdown by reaching a wide-ranging deal that is expected to push budget deficits into the $1 trillion-a-year zone.

Reeling world stock markets took another blow when Chinese shares sank 4 percent, as concern about rising borrowing costs and soaring volatility put them on course for their worst week since the height of the euro zone crisis.

2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics sparked to life in a vivid, colorful ceremony of fire and ice in South Korea, though the diplomacy was tougher to choreograph in the stadium where leaders from nations that are sworn enemies sat close together.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed 47 appeals from Russian athletes and coaches to take part in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, putting an end to a months-long saga over their Olympic fate.

Canada led after the first round of figure skating’s team competition in the Pyeongchang Olympics, with a dazzling performance by pair Megan Duhamel and Eric Radford overcoming stumbles by Patrick Chan in the men’s singles.

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