Aung San Suu Kyi came to power in 2020 after winning the elections with a huge margin but a military coup in 2021 brought an end to her regime. The military also accused her of electoral fraud in the 2020 polls.
The violence erupted after the powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said he is leaving politics. Protesters supporting Mr. Sadr took to the streets of the capital, Baghdad, and security forces opened fire.
Truss's opponent and former chancellor Rishi Sunak got quite near to signing trade agreements to make the UK the “market of choice” for Chinese companies, The Times had revealed last month.
