内容摘要：— But more than a month after the crackdown began, thousands of people are still detained in Myanmar, kept in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions by the armed groups that arranged their release.

— But more than a month after the crackdown began, thousands of people are still detained in Myanmar, kept in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions by the armed groups that arranged their release.

“The United States can hurt the Houthis, it can weaken them,” wrote Gregory D. Johnsen, a Yemen expert at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, “but without effective ground troops — either its own or someone else’s — it will not be able to eliminate their capabilities.”WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump directed his attorney general last month to investigate online fundraising, he cited concerns that foreigners and fraudsters were using elaborate “schemes” and “dummy accounts” to funnel illegal contributions to politicians and causes.

Instead of calling for an expansive probe, however, the president identified just one potential target: ActBlue,which has acknowledged receiving over 200 potentially illicit contributions last year from foreign internet addresses.Trump’s announcement also contained a glaring omission — his own political committees have received scores of contributions from potentially problematic donors.

The White House did not respond to questions about Trump’s fundraising. Instead, a senior administration official pointed to a recent House Republican investigation of ActBlue, which the White House alleges “uncovered specific evidence of potentially unlawful conduct.”The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.

Here are some takeaways from the AP’s review of Trump’s political committees:

It’s against the law for U.S. candidates and political committees to accept contributions from foreign nationals. Laws also place strict limits on donation amounts and prohibit the laundering of contributions to get around legal caps. For the most part, such donations have been policed by campaigns and the Federal Election Commission, with only the most egregious examples being targeted by federal law enforcement.“The government has co-opted some opposition (parties) and there’s other opposition that are just tired of this strategy that’s never worked,” said David Smilde, a Tulane University professor who has studied Venezuela for 30 years. “So, what you are going to have is a partial boycott, which means the government is going to cruise to victory and can say, ‘We had elections, the opposition didn’t participate.’ It’s going to backfire on the opposition.”

Associated Press writers Aamer Madhani in Washington and Jorge Rueda in Caracas, Venezuela, contributed to this report.Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean at

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia’s top electoral tribunal on Tuesday disqualifiedfrom running in the August presidential vote and suspended the candidacy of the other main leftist contender, immediately vaulting