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• Colombia Struck a Peace Deal With Guerrillas, but Many Return to Arms
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:00:12 GMT-NICHOLAS CASEY and FEDERICO RIOS ESCOBAR
  Two members of the old FARC teaching a new FARC member how to use his assault rifle at a shooting camp.
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• Putin Calls Downing of Russian Plane in Syria ‘Tragic’ and Absolves Israel
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:06:14 GMT-DAVID M. HALBFINGER and ANDREW HIGGINS
  A Russian IL-20 military plane in 2006. Syrian antiaircraft missiles shot down an IL-20 aircraft off the Syrian coast on Monday.
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• Merkel’s Spy Chief Is Removed After Public Rift
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:36:06 GMT-KATRIN BENNHOLD
  Hans-Georg Maassen, Germany’s intelligence chief, before a hearing in front of a parliamentary control panel in Berlin this month.
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• In Mexico, a Truck Full of Cadavers Takes a Mystery Road Trip
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:34:29 GMT-KIRK SEMPLE
  Mexican officials with a truck carrying corpses at the Jalisco State morgue on Monday.
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• In North Korea, Shouts for Reunification and Peace Greet South’s Leader
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 12:38:54 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, en route to their meeting Tuesday in Pyongyang, the North’s capital.
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• Philippines Dispatch: Philippine Miners Trapped in Typhoon: Drawn by Gold, Drowned in Mud
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:15:18 GMT-HANNAH BEECH
  Searching for bodies on Monday in Itogon, a Philippines mountain town hit by a landslide set off by Typhoon Mangkhut.
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• Pussy Riot Activist May Have Been Poisoned, German Doctors Say
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:37:05 GMT-CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE and MELISSA EDDY
  Pyotr Verzilov received medical treatment after arriving in Berlin on Saturday. German doctors said on Tuesday it was “highly plausible” that he had been poisoned.
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• Poland’s Leader Finds an Ally in Trump, Even as He Brings Courts to Heel
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:20:25 GMT-MARC SANTORA and JOANNA BERENDT
  President Trump in Warsaw last year. He said nothing about Poland’s crackdown on judges.
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• U.K. Police Investigate New Allegation Against Harvey Weinstein
  Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:29:23 GMT-PALKO KARASZ
  Harvey Weinstein, who has denied accusations of nonconsensual sex, was arrested in New York in May.
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• Your Tuesday Evening News Briefing: Brett Kavanaugh, Apple, Trump
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 23:17:39 GMT-JOUMANA KHATIB and HIROKO MASUIKE
• Salt Bae Serves Meat to Maduro, to Rubio’s Disgust
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:38:35 GMT-MATTHEW HAAG
  Nusret Gokce, the chef known to Instagram fans as Salt Bae, demonstrating his famous technique at Nusr-Et Steakhouse.
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• Ehsan Yarshater, Iran Scholar With a Monumental Vision, Dies at 98
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:51:36 GMT-AMIR-HUSSEIN RADJY
  Ehsan Yarshater in 2011. “He was generally referred to during his own lifetime as the doyen of Iranian studies,” a fellow scholar said.
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• Ex-L.A. Times Beijing Bureau Chief Resigns Amid Sexual Misconduct Claims
  Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:16:53 GMT-ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
  Jonathan Kaiman was suspended by The Los Angeles Times in May.
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• 14 Pakistani Schools Burned. Locals Wonder if the Army Wanted It.
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:12:01 GMT-MEHER AHMAD
  Shams al-Haq, a fruit farmer, looking over the ruins of a girls’ school that was burned last month. It was one of 14 schools set ablaze in one night in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan.
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• BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen Face Collusion Investigation in Europe
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:33:54 GMT-AMIE TSANG
  The European Commission said it would look into whether Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler had worked together to avoid competing on clean emissions technology.
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• With a Submarine, Japan Sends a Message in the South China Sea
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:27:57 GMT-MOTOKO RICH and MAKIKO INOUE
  The Japanese submarine Kuroshio, which is visiting Vietnam this week. It also participated in war games in the South China Sea.
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• With Moon as His Muse, Japanese Billionaire Signs Up for SpaceX Voyage
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:13:37 GMT-KENNETH CHANG
  Yusaku Maezawa was introduced on Monday as the first SpaceX customer for a trip around the moon.
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• China Once Looked Tough on Trade. Now Its Options Are Dwindling.
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:31:08 GMT-KEITH BRADSHER
  A Chinese trade delegation during a tour of soybean fields in Missouri last month. American soybeans are an essential import in China, which will have trouble replacing them.
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• At War: The Hotel in Afghanistan That Refuses to Close Its Doors
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 11:19:33 GMT-ANDREW QUILTY
  Afghan Border Police troops playing cricket in the empty swimming pool at the Bost Hotel earlier this year.
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• ‘Suffering and Hardship Belong to Me’: Chinese Dissident Recounts Prison Years
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:57:02 GMT-AMY QIN
  A protester holding a photo of Xu Zhiyong outside the Chinese liaison office in Hong Kong in 2014.
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• Myanmar’s ‘Gravest Crimes’ Against Rohingya Demand Action, U.N. Says
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:53:07 GMT-NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
  A Rohingya mother and her daughter, who fled the village of Min Gyi in Myanmar, at a refugee camp in Bangladesh last year.
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• Trade War Escalates. Stock Markets Shrug. Here’s Why.
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:39:31 GMT-MATT PHILLIPS, JACK EWING and ALEXANDRA STEVENSON
  Asian markets were mixed on Tuesday after President Trump ordered tariffs on $200 billion more in Chinese goods, ramping up tensions between the world’s top two economies.
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• Guatemala’s Democracy Is Under Threat — by Its Own President
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:52:21 GMT-AZAM AHMED and ELISABETH MALKIN
  The government refused to let an anti-corruption prosecutor back into the country, defying the top court and pushing the nation toward a constitutional crisis.
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• Your Monday Evening News Briefing: Brett Kavanaugh, North Carolina, Elon Musk
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:49:02 GMT-KAREN ZRAICK and HIROKO MASUIKE
• Haley Says Russia ‘Actively Working’ to Subvert North Korea Sanctions
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 04:43:58 GMT-MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ
  Ambassador Nikki R. Haley, center, during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at the organization’s headquarters on Monday.
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• Meet SpaceX’s First Moon Voyage Customer, Yusaku Maezawa
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:19:11 GMT-KENNETH CHANG
  Elon Musk, left, the chief executive of SpaceX, introduced Yusaku Maezawa, the founder of the online fashion retailer Zozo, on Monday as the first customer for a trip around the moon with one of the company’s rockets.
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• Trilobites: What 13,000 Patents Involving the DNA of Sea Life Tell Us About the Future
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:41:24 GMT-HEATHER MURPHY
• After the Storm: Photos From Hong Kong, Battered by Typhoon Mangkhut
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 05:41:59 GMT-THE NEW YORK TIMES
  The aftermath of Typhoon Mangkhut on Monday in Hong Kong.
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• Russia and Turkey Announce Demilitarized Zone in Last Rebel-Held Part of Syria
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 21:53:46 GMT-ANDREW HIGGINS and RICK GLADSTONE
  Smoke rising as government forces targeted Kafr Ain in Syria’s Idlib Province this month.
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• I.C.C. Fines Jean-Pierre Bemba of Congo for Witness Tampering
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:31:49 GMT-REUTERS
  Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former Congolese vice president, center, was acquitted on war crimes charges on Monday.
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• Floods in Nigeria Kill More Than 100, Wiping Out Homes and Farms
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:45:48 GMT-DIONNE SEARCEY
  Flooding in the Nigerian state of Kogi on Monday.
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• China Accuses Taiwan of Using Students for Espionage
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:52:09 GMT-SUI-LEE WEE and CHRIS HORTON
  Beijing is hostile toward President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, whose party is skeptical of closer ties to China.
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• Australia Hunts for Saboteur Hiding Needles in Strawberries
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 06:32:27 GMT-DANIEL VICTOR
  Supermarkets across Australia have stopped selling strawberries after several people have found needles hidden inside the fruit.
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• Accusations of a ‘Nightmare’ Vacation Test China’s Relations With Sweden
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 03:58:07 GMT-MIKE IVES
  China has imposed travel warnings after it said three Chinese tourists were “brutally abused” by the Swedish police as they were ejected from a hostel in Stockholm.
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• Are Music Festivals to Blame for Overdose Deaths?
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 22:01:13 GMT-ISABELLA KWAI
  Gladys Berejiklian, the premier of New South Wales, has promised to shut down the Defqon.1 festival, calling it “an unsafe event.”
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• North and South Korea Push to End Korean War, but U.S. Remains Wary
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 04:18:13 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, center, is greeted by North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday.
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• Can Ethiopia’s New Leader, a Political Insider, Change It From the Inside Out?
  Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:45:16 GMT-SOMINI SENGUPTA
  Since taking office in March, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia has become the most closely watched leader in Africa.
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• Live Briefing: Typhoon Mangkhut: More Than 40 Bodies Found in Philippines Landslide
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 13:07:06 GMT-THE NEW YORK TIMES
  A view of the landslide in Itogon that swept part of the mining community away.
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• News Analysis: North Korea’s Trump-Era Strategy: Keep Making A-Bombs, but Quietly
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 01:23:41 GMT-DAVID E. SANGER
  President Trump and Kim Jong-un at their summit meeting in June. They have exchanged warm words ever since.
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• As Trump’s Trade War Mounts, China’s Wall Street Allies Lose Clout
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 05:35:41 GMT-ALEXANDRA STEVENSON, KATE KELLY and KEITH BRADSHER
  Stephen A. Schwarzman, Blackstone’s chief, is among the group of Wall Street executives meeting with current and former Chinese officials and bankers this weekend in Beijing.
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• Typhoon Mangkhut Pummels Asia
  Sun, 16 Sep 2018 22:34:26 GMT-
  As the storm moved toward southern China, the search for survivors started in the Philippines, where the death toll could surpass 100.
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• Sweden to End Twitter Experiment Letting Ordinary People Be Nation’s Voice
  Sun, 16 Sep 2018 21:45:55 GMT-CHRISTINA ANDERSON
  The Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. The nation has had an anti-censorship law since 1766.
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• Maori Language, Once Shunned, Is Having a Renaissance in New Zealand
  Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:00:04 GMT-CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
  Residents of Merivale Retirement Village practicing Maori with their activities coordinator, Tim Belcher, in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.
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• In a Sour Season Between the U.K. and Russia, a New Casualty: Debutantes
  Sun, 16 Sep 2018 22:21:05 GMT-ELLEN BARRY
  The Russian Debutante Ball in London in 2014. This year’s event has been canceled.
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• Critic’s Notebook: What Is Lost When a Museum Vanishes? In Brazil, a Nation’s Story
  Sun, 16 Sep 2018 22:00:43 GMT-MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
  A visitor outside the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro after the Sept. 2 fire.
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• In the Balkans, Russia and the West Fight a Disinformation-Age Battle
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:28:44 GMT-MARC SANTORA and JULIAN E. BARNES
  A protest in June outside Macedonia’s Parliament about a proposal to change the country’s official name. Misinformation about police brutality at the demonstration appeared on social media.
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• At Typhoon’s Eye in Philippines, Whipping Debris and Fervent Prayers
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 12:58:17 GMT-HANNAH BEECH
  Search and rescue efforts were underway on Sunday after a landslide in Baguio City, Philippines.
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• Typhoon Mangkhut Slams Hong Kong and Southern China
  Mon, 17 Sep 2018 04:35:09 GMT-GERRY MULLANY, TIFFANY MAY and STEVEN LEE MYERS
  A police officer carrying a girl to safety in Hong Kong on Sunday, when the city took a nearly direct hit from Typhoon Mangkhut.
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