Obama Lifts Some Sanctions Against Myanmar nytimes.com

President Obama on Friday lifted sanctions against Myanmar, declaring that the government there had made “substantial progress in improving human rights,” even though the country’s army is in the midst of a brutal campaign to drive out the Rohingya, a Muslim minority.

The announcement, which came on a Friday afternoon in a blandly titled email, was the final step in Mr. Obama’s efforts to transform the relationship with a once reclusive government.