While questioning Zuckerberg on Tuesday morning, Matheson noted that he had referred to Instagram as being a “rapidly growing, threatening, network.” The attorney also pointed out Zuckerberg’s referring to trying to neutralize a competitor by buying the company.
. “I eat in Myanmar and sleep in India,” says Tonyei Phawang, the Angh, whose house sits on the border.The Indian government is now seeking to stop border crossings for the first time, revoking a system that made it legal for Indigenous people to cross freely and threatening to build a border fence that could cut villages like Longwa in two.
In northeast India, a border fence could cut through villages, houses and lives. (AP Video/Rishi Lekhi)On a Thursday in December, Longwa’s marketplace was bustling with shoppers from the Myanmar side, motorbikes loaded with as much salt, flour, biscuits, clothes, milk, tea, soap as they could carry. The nearest town with a market on the other side of the border is Lahe, a full day’s drive away.Locals have long come and gone to shop, study or seek medical care, with no sign that they’re crossing an international border except a border marker sitting on a hilltop in the village. The Angh and village council members say their forefathers had no idea that the concrete pillar was meant to divide them when it was built in the early 1970s.
A motorcycle of a villager from Myanmar laded with goods is parked at the corner of a dirt road at Longwa village, in the India-Myanmar border in the far eastern state of Nagaland, Thursday, Dec.12, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)A motorcycle of a villager from Myanmar laded with goods is parked at the corner of a dirt road at Longwa village, in the India-Myanmar border in the far eastern state of Nagaland, Thursday, Dec.12, 2024. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
“At that time we had no idea this is India or Myanmar. It was a free land. There was nobody who understood English or Hindi. They understood nothing,” Phawang says.
Like dozens of other Indigenous Naga tribes, the Konyak’s land straddles the mountains that divide India and Myanmar. Naga villages are usually built on hilltops for security, something that wasn’t considered when the British East India Company drew the border in an agreement with the then-Kingdom of Burma.Dennis Dostey Dorve, a driver and a part-time fisherman, stands on a fallen tree next to his late father’s room, collapsed by the sea in the family home in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)
The sea began to claim houses in Agavedzi about a dozen years ago, said Dennis Dostey Dorve, whose fisherman father built a home that collapsed in 2016 while Dorve was inside.“The room he had given me is gone, as is the room he occupied before he passed away,” said Dorve. “When I was young, the distance from where I stand now to the shore was considerable.”
Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)Dennis Dostey Dorve stands by a sculpture design on a collapsed wall of his late father’s room, which was destroyed by coastal erosion in Avegadzi, Ghana, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)