The image above, of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, is part of our collection of the most iconic images from 2017.

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• “Things are worse now than they have ever been in Indonesian history.”

That’s an anthropologist on the plight of gay men in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, where a crackdown on homosexuality has been underway since November 2016.

The Indonesian authorities have detained hundreds of people, raiding not just bars but also hotel rooms and private apartments.

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• The Trump administration has pursued its immigration agenda with high-profile measures such as barring travel from Muslim countries and pressing for a border wall with Mexico.

But it has also quietly slowed many forms of legal immigration that reach even further, cutting the number of people entering the United States each year as temporary workers or permanent residents.

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