COVER STORY this issue: Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was long hailed as the hero of human rights in her homeland. But the forced exodus of nearly half a million minority Rohingya has changed that. The satellites first detected the villages going up in flames on Aug. 25. One by one, entire townships across western Myanmar were burning,  just hours after Muslim militants attacked national army posts in the Asian country’s Rakhine state…. TIME magazine, trusted by millions of readers for its in-depth reporting and insightful stories. To understand the world we live in, read TIME. Subscribe now.

Many Japanese fear they, and not the South Koreans, would be the first victims of a war with Kim Jong Un. The wail of the emergency siren reverberates across the school’s playing field, conjuring a primal fear even before the words “Missile launched! Missile launched!” crackle over the loudspeaker. …

A growing surveillance network aims to fight crime by tracking gunshots. The alert blares from the computer like a ray gun from an old cartoon: WAH-wahwahwahwah. Jonathan, a ShotSpotter analyst, focuses on one of the six monitors in front of him and zooms in on a street-level map of Milwaukee. Next to the map are what look like Christmas trees on their sides–a cluster of green sound waves. Jonathan, who has spent nearly five years staring down these monitors, says he can tell just by looking that the pattern means gunshots. The audio seems to confirm it with a series of loud pops. …