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• Dream of a Better Life in Afghanistan Ends in a Hilltop Grave for Students
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:22:05 GMT-MUJIB MASHAL and FATIMA FAIZI
  Mourners carried the body of one of the young victims of a suicide attack at a university prep center during a burial ceremony on Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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• Venezuela Cuts to Fight Inflation (Zeroes From Its Currency, That Is)
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:54:38 GMT-NICHOLAS CASEY
  President Nicolás Maduro shortly before drone explosions interrupted his speech in Caracas on Aug. 4.
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• 44 Small Graves Stir Questions About U.S. Policy in Yemen
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:49:57 GMT-SHUAIB ALMOSAWA, BEN HUBBARD and ERIC SCHMITT
  Yemeni children in the northern Yemeni city of Saada on Monday vented their anger during a mass funeral for children killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition last week.
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• Cut in Two, Genoa Finds Its Political Paralysis Now Eclipsed by Shock
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:32:07 GMT-GAIA PIANIGIANI, ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
  The Morandi Bridge in Genoa, Italy, was built so close to private homes that residents could not sleep at night when workers did the maintenance work that was always needed.
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• In Italy Bridge Collapse, Both Design and Upkeep Are Under Suspicion
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:42:00 GMT-HENRY FOUNTAIN
  Rescue services at the Morandi bridge that collapsed on Tuesday in Genoa, Italy, killing at least 38 people.
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• For Some Viewers, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Is Not Asian Enough
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:44:44 GMT-MIKE IVES
  In the United States, “Crazy Rich Asians” has been celebrated for its all Asian and Asian-American cast. But in Singapore, where it was shot, some residents said the movie is not representative.
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• Muslim Job Applicant Who Refused Handshake Wins Discrimination Case in Sweden
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 16:13:56 GMT-CHRISTINA ANDERSON
  Farah Alhajeh said that she greeted men and women the same way in mixed company, by bringing her hand to her chest. “We live in a society where you have to treat women and men the same,” she said. “I know that because I am Swedish.”
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• 11-Year-Old Bride of Malaysian Man Is Returned to Thailand
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 08:48:24 GMT-HANNAH BEECH
  Siti Nor Azila, 34, the second wife of Che Abdul Karim Che Abdul Hamid, with her two daughters in her family’s home in Kelantan in July. Ms. Siti Nor was unaware of Mr. Che Abdul Karim’s marriage to an 11-year-old girl until after it happened.
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• ‘Dr. Bumbum,’ Brazilian Plastic Surgeon, Is Charged in Patient’s Death
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:46:08 GMT-MANUELA ANDREONI and SHASTA DARLINGTON
  Denis Furtado in Rio de Janeiro last month. He has been charged in the death of one of his patients.
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• North Korea Presses Demand for End of War Amid Talk of Pompeo Visit
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 05:58:35 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second from left, was met by Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and other North Korean officials at the airport in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, last month.
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• In Shadow of Mt. Etna, Europe Makes a Last Stand for Solar
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:00:04 GMT-STANLEY REED and KEITH BRADSHER
  The new, more efficient solar panel being tested by an Italian utility, Enel, at a Sicilian factory in Catania.
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• Turkish Airstrike in Iraqi Territory Kills a Kurdish Militant Leader
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 01:25:27 GMT-RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
  Fighters of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, also known as the P.K.K., patrolling in the Qandil Mountains, near their headquarters in northern Iraq, in June.
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• Aretha Franklin, Trump, N.Y.U.: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 23:31:22 GMT-JOUMANA KHATIB and HIROKO MASUIKE
• Gay Afghan Teenager Denied Asylum in Austria Because He Didn’t Fit Stereotype, Rights Group Says
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:50:30 GMT-CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE and CHRISTINE HAUSER
  Migrants on the Hungarian and Austrian border in 2015. Those fleeing their home countries for Europe face perilous journeys, and activists say that L.G.B.T. people are especially vulnerable during the asylum process.
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• How Dangerous Are Italy’s Bridges? Even After Genoa, No One Knows
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 19:21:53 GMT-ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
  Firefighters helped people living near the Morandi Bridge evacuate on Thursday.
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• Google Employees Protest Secret Work on Censored Search Engine for China
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 02:36:36 GMT-KATE CONGER and DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI
  Google employees have signed a letter protesting the company’s building of a censored search engine for China.
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• Melting Ice Uncovers 1946 Wreckage of U.S. Plane in Swiss Glacier
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 22:50:26 GMT-PALKO KARASZ
  Some of the debris on Wednesday from a plane crash 70 years ago on the Gauli Glacier in Switzerland. The survival of everyone onboard “was the most improbable story in the history of international aviation,” one expert said.
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• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Former Prime Minister of India, Dies at 93
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 04:35:08 GMT-ROBERT D. McFADDEN
  Atal Bihari Vajpayee in 2004. For most of his 50 years in politics, he was virtually unknown outside India.
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• In China, Salmon is Salmon, Even if It’s Trout
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 11:53:22 GMT-TIFFANY MAY
  Salmon — or is it rainbow trout? — at the Huangsha seafood wholesale market in Guangzhou, China.
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• How to Spruce Up for Asian Games? Cover a Polluted River
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:44:30 GMT-JOE COCHRANE
  Workers installing nets to cover the “Black River” near the Asian Games athletes’ village in Jakarta, Indonesia, in July.
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• Keïta Gets 2nd Term as Mali President With Runoff Victory
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:10:24 GMT-CLAIR MacDOUGALL
  President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta at a polling station in Bamako during Sunday’s runoff election.
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• Letter 68: Get to Know Besha Rodell. And Maureen Dowd Is on Her Way to Sydney.
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 05:22:16 GMT-DAMIEN CAVE
  Besha Rodell (she still looks JUST like this).
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• ISIS Member Arrested in Sacramento, U.S. Says
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:31:02 GMT-MATT STEVENS and GABE COHN
  A federal agent removed items from an apartment on Wednesday following the arrest of Omar Ameen in Sacramento. He is accused of killing a police officer in Iraq.
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• ‘We Are Tired of Crying for the Dead’: A Stunned Genoa Mourns
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 22:54:32 GMT-GAIA PIANIGIANI
  Evacuated buildings around the collapsed Morandi Bridge in Genoa on Wednesday.
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• Paul Manafort, Trump, Opioids: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 04:03:44 GMT-JOUMANA KHATIB and MARCUS PAYADUE
• After Taliban Siege of Ghazni, Afghans Tell of Fear and Deprivation
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:32:47 GMT-FATIMA FAIZI and MUJIB MASHAL
  Injured men being treated at a hospital in Ghazni on Sunday. At least 165 Afghan police officers and soldiers and 40 civilians were killed in the siege.
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• Protesters in Russia Accuse Government of Entrapping Young Critics
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:04:05 GMT-NEIL MacFARQUHAR and IVAN NECHEPURENKO
  Demonstrators in Moscow on Wednesday protested against the growing number of arrests of young Russians on extremism charges for material shared or stored on social media sites.
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• E.U. Sees Real Brexit Talks at Last — and Real Dangers
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 21:25:20 GMT-STEVEN ERLANGER
  Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to negotiate Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. One stumbling block is the nature of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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• For 9 Hours, Cubans Got Internet in an Unusual Place: Everywhere
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:22:48 GMT-SANDRA E. GARCIA
  A young Cuban checking his phone at an internet hot spot on a street in Havana. On Tuesday, Cubans were able to surf the internet beyond the confines of designated public hot spots.
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• Palestinian Mail Reaches the West Bank, 8 Years Late
  Fri, 17 Aug 2018 06:56:23 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  Palestinian postal workers sifted through undelivered mail dating as far back as 2010 at the post office in Jericho. The mail had been blocked by Israel.
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• Genoa Bridge Collapse: Rescuers Use Drones to Survey Damage
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:43:26 GMT-
  Emergency workers in Italy continue to dig through the bridge’s rubble, as focus turns to the structure’s troubled past.
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• Fox Business Took a Shot at Denmark. Denmark Fired Back.
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:26:34 GMT-MARTIN SELSOE SORENSEN
  A cafe in Copenhagen. A Fox Business anchor warning of the dangers of socialism used Denmark as an example.
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• Tencent, the Chinese Internet Giant, Stumbles. Beijing Gets the Blame
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:14:03 GMT-PAUL MOZUR
  Tencent was among the companies at an internet conference in Wuzhen, China, in December. On Wednesday, the company stumbled, missing earnings targets and posting a slowdown in profit growth for the first time in more than a decade.
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• Trump Administration Sanctions Companies Helping North Korea
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 19:08:03 GMT-ALAN RAPPEPORT
  A man rides a bike past the RasonConTrans railway at Rajin harbor in North Korea.
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• Israeli Military Clears Itself of Wrongdoing in 2014 Gaza War’s ‘Black Friday’
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 09:34:35 GMT-ISABEL KERSHNER
  Fishing boats in the port of Gaza City on Wednesday. Israel said that the fishing zone off the Gaza Strip would be expanded to nine nautical miles from three.
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• Qatar Comes to Aid of Turkey, Offering $15 Billion Lifeline
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 01:57:21 GMT-JACK EWING and CARLOTTA GALL
  The American pastor Andrew Brunson was placed under house arrest at his home in Izmir, Turkey, last month after being released from prison.
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• Briton From Sudan Is Named as Suspect in London Crash
  Thu, 16 Aug 2018 15:47:01 GMT-KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
  The Houses of Parliament in London are guarded by officers and security barriers. Officials have considered turning the area into a pedestrian-only site.
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• Syria Dispatch: ‘There Are No Girls Left’: Syria’s Christian Villages Hollowed Out by ISIS
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:41:29 GMT-BEN HUBBARD
  Ishaq Nisaan at the ruins of a church he helped build in the village where he grew up in Syria.
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• Found in the Weeds: A 65-Foot Piece of the Berlin Wall
  Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:07:34 GMT-MELISSA EDDY
  The section of the Berlin Wall uncovered in June “looked like any other wall,” a Berlin Wall Foundation spokeswoman said.
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