Myanmar Parliament Sworn In; Next President Unknown

New members of Myanmar's parliament, most dressed in traditional garb, took a joint oath of office Monday in the capital, Naypyidaw, as the prelude to installing the country's first democratically elected government in more than half a century. "This is the first really concrete institutional transition of what the elections have produced and the expression of the will of the people," said European Union Ambassador Roland Cobia, who observed the brief swearing-in...

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