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• Ireland Votes to End Abortion Ban in Rebuke to Catholic Church
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:55:11 GMT-KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
  A mural in Dublin of Savita Halappanavar, who died in 2012 of complications from a miscarriage after a hospital rejected a request for an abortion.
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• Keeping Summit Hopes Alive Suggests Kim Jong-un May Need a Deal
  Sun, 27 May 2018 01:22:09 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  South Korean news coverage on a screen in Seoul, the capital. Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has promised his people a prosperous economy, and President Trump’s cancellation of their summit talks put that goal in jeopardy.
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• North Korea Willing to Talk About ‘Complete Denuclearization’
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:51:47 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  President Moon Jae-in of South Korea met with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, on Saturday inside the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two nations.
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• She Married 3 Brothers in Family Torn by War
  Sat, 26 May 2018 15:36:22 GMT-ROD NORDLAND
  Khadija, 18, has married three brothers, losing two of them to the Afghan war. “I do not want this husband to be killed by the Taliban,” she said.
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• Photos From Ireland, as ‘Yes’ Supporters Celebrate Vote to Legalize Abortion
  Sat, 26 May 2018 21:43:27 GMT-THE NEW YORK TIMES
  People from the "Yes" campaign smiled and cheered as the results of the referendum began to come in at Dublin Castle on Saturday.
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• Woman Fatally Shot by Border Patrol Agent Came to U.S. Seeking Work, Family Says
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:17:58 GMT-CHRISTINA CARON
  Dominga Vicente showing reporters a photo of her niece, Claudia Patricia Gómez González, during a news conference on Friday. Ms. Gómez was shot and killed by a Border Patrol agent last week.
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• Joshua Holt, an American Held in a Venezuelan Jail for 2 Years, Is Back in the U.S.
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:47:28 GMT-MICHAEL D. SHEAR and NICHOLAS CASEY
  Joshua Holt, from an image he posted to Facebook.
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• Survivors of Massacre Ask: ‘Why Did They Have to Kill Those Children?’
  Sat, 26 May 2018 14:13:45 GMT-ELISABETH MALKIN
  A family visiting a memorial to the victims of the 1981 massacre in El Mozote, El Salvador.
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• Europeans in Iran Bitterly Denounce the U.S. as ‘Caesar’ Amid New Sanctions
  Sat, 26 May 2018 23:20:53 GMT-THOMAS ERDBRINK
  A large billboard in Tehran for Barbican nonalcoholic beer, from Saudi Arabia, Iran’s regional rival.
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• After Snubbing Taiwan, Burkina Faso Establishes Diplomatic Ties With China
  Sat, 26 May 2018 23:00:53 GMT-THE NEW YORK TIMES
  China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, second from right, and Burkina Faso’s foreign minister, Alpha Barry, signing documents establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries in Beijing on Saturday.
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• In Malaysia, Calls for New Leaders to Revisit Old Abductions and Deaths
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:55:20 GMT-RICHARD C. PADDOCK
  Najib Razik, left, then prime minister of Malaysia and Khalid Abu Bakar, then national police chief, in 2016. Malaysia’s new government is being called on to re-examine abductions and suspicious deaths that happened during the Najib years.
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• Once Delayed, Nobel Prize for Literature No Sure Thing in 2019
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:55:21 GMT-CHRISTINA ANDERSON
  The Swedish Academy’s annual meeting in Stockholm in December. The institution, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, has been embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal.
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• Florence’s Answer to Mafia Violence: A Painting’s Loving Restoration
  Sat, 26 May 2018 16:39:35 GMT-GAIA PIANIGIANI
  Daniela Lippi putting the final touches on “The “Card Players” by Bartolomeo Manfredi at her studio before the painting’s re-installment in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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• The Saturday Profile: An Affable Canadian Author With a Penchant for Murder
  Fri, 25 May 2018 14:04:02 GMT-DAN BILEFSKY
  The crime novelist Louise Penny makes bad things happen in placid Canadian territory. “I am a killing machine but a happy one,” she said. “I get all my resentments out in my books.”
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• Trump Falsely Says Times Made Up Source in Report on Korea Summit Meeting
  Sat, 26 May 2018 19:54:18 GMT-MICHAEL D. SHEAR
  President Trump on Friday at the White House. Mr. Trump’s attack on The New York Times on Saturday on Twitter was only the latest of many efforts by the president to discredit reporting by news organizations.
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• Ireland Votes to Legalize Abortion
  Sat, 26 May 2018 16:31:57 GMT-
  Irish voters repealed a constitutional amendment that banned abortion in nearly all cases, laying the groundwork for a legal path to terminating pregnancies in the predominantly Catholic country.
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• Keeping Bohemian as Real Estate Prices Soar: The Canada Letter
  Sat, 26 May 2018 01:28:21 GMT-IAN AUSTEN
  Residents of Kensington Market in Toronto have campaigned to keep out chain stores.
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• North Korea Blew Up Its Nuclear Test Site. Here’s What the Videos Show.
  Sat, 26 May 2018 00:53:01 GMT-
  Foreign journalists were given access to the facility in Punggye-ri, and witnessed the destruction of tunnel entrances and buildings. But was the site completely destroyed?
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• Trump’s On-Again, Off-Again Summit Style Unnerves Asian Allies
  Sat, 26 May 2018 01:10:53 GMT-MOTOKO RICH
  President Moon Jae-in of South Korea had staked a lot on brokering a meeting between President Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
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• Harvey Weinstein, Ireland, Hawaii: Your Friday Evening Briefing
  Fri, 25 May 2018 22:06:46 GMT-KAREN ZRAICK and VIRGINIA LOZANO
• Here Are the Biggest Stories in American Politics This Week
  Fri, 25 May 2018 21:32:22 GMT-EMILY COCHRANE
  Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, on Thursday.
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• Understanding Ireland’s Vote on Whether to Keep Its Abortion Ban
  Sat, 26 May 2018 10:22:30 GMT-KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA and MEGAN SPECIA
  Competing signs in Dublin on Friday.
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• Cables Contain Claims Former Colombian Leader Is Tied to Drug Traffickers
  Sat, 26 May 2018 12:58:19 GMT-NICHOLAS CASEY
  Álvaro Uribe, a former president of Colombia, spoke during a rally for the presidential candidate Iván Duque in Bogotá last week.
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• Hosted by Putin, Leaders of France and Japan Castigate Trump
  Fri, 25 May 2018 20:26:24 GMT-IVAN NECHEPURENKO and ANDREW E. KRAMER
  “The current situation in the world is such that everybody is playing soccer with the rules of judo,” said President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. “So what we have is neither soccer nor judo. It’s chaos.”
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• At Trump Tower, Michael Cohen and Oligarch Discussed Russian Relations
  Fri, 25 May 2018 17:51:45 GMT-WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM, BEN PROTESS and MIKE McINTIRE
  Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian billionaire, met with President Trump’s lawyer Michael D. Cohen 11 days before the inauguration.
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• Trump Says North Korea Summit May Be Rescheduled
  Sat, 26 May 2018 01:44:17 GMT-MARK LANDLER and DAVID E. SANGER
  President Trump spoke to reporters before departing the White House on Friday.
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• Rajoy Government in Spain Is Threatened by Verdicts in Corruption Case
  Sat, 26 May 2018 03:57:31 GMT-RAPHAEL MINDER
  The issue of corruption within Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s Popular Party is threatening the survival of his minority conservative government.
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• The Healing Edge: Five Blood Transfusions, One Bone Marrow Transplant — All Before Birth
  Fri, 25 May 2018 12:43:42 GMT-DENISE GRADY
  Nichelle Obar with her daughter, Elianna, at 3 weeks old.
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• Russia ‘Accountable’ for Downed Airliner, Australia and Netherlands Say
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:55:46 GMT-ALAN COWELL
  Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014. Nearly 300 people were killed, most of them citizens of Australia or the Netherlands.
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• Dozens Dead in Congo After Boat Capsizes
  Fri, 25 May 2018 12:21:42 GMT-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
  The authorities are still trying to determine how many people were on the vessel at the time of the accident, and how many might have survived.
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• Scorned, Animal Rights Advocates in France Intensify Guerrilla Tactics
  Fri, 25 May 2018 13:38:57 GMT-ELIAN PELTIER
  A march in Paris last year organized by the L214 animal rights group demanding the closing of slaughterhouses.
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• U.S. News Outlets Block European Readers Over New Privacy Rules
  Sat, 26 May 2018 14:33:41 GMT-ADAM SATARIANO
  The home page of the Chicago Tribune on Friday, as viewed from Europe.
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• International Herald Tribune: 1893: Uprising in Nicaragua
  Fri, 25 May 2018 09:00:01 GMT-THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
  The Nicaraguan government’s forces were defeated by revolutionaries in 1893.
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• China Tries to Erase Taiwan, One Ally (and Website) at a Time
  Fri, 25 May 2018 08:32:53 GMT-STEVEN LEE MYERS and CHRIS HORTON
  The changing of the guard at Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital. China’s recent efforts to isolate Taiwan, diplomatically and otherwise, have been its most intense in decades, people on the self-governing island say.
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• Aboriginal Youth Are Disproportionately Jailed, Report Finds
  Fri, 25 May 2018 10:17:04 GMT-ADELLA BEAINI
  The Don Dale Youth Detention Center in Darwin, Northern Territory, in 2016. The original Don Dale facility nearby was closed in 2014 after a tear-gassing incident.
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• Ireland’s Abortion Referendum Becomes a Test for Facebook and Google
  Fri, 25 May 2018 21:18:48 GMT-ADAM SATARIANO
  Ireland’s abortion referendum on Friday has turned into a test of whether Facebook and Google can prevent foreign meddling from swaying the outcome.
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• Two Sought in Bombing at Indian Restaurant in Ontario
  Sat, 26 May 2018 12:55:00 GMT-CATHERINE PORTER and DAN BILEFSKY
  The police released this photo of two people suspected of bombing an Indian restaurant in Mississauga, Ontario, a city near Toronto.
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• Ireland Abortion Vote: ‘It’s Not a Man’s Issue,’ but Male Turnout Is Crucial
  Fri, 25 May 2018 19:12:35 GMT-KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
  Anti-abortion posters this week in Dublin.
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• Woman Says She Was Bound, Gagged and Bullied at Work in Scotland
  Sat, 26 May 2018 04:32:25 GMT-YONETTE JOSEPH
  A 2010 photograph showing DeeAnn Fitzpatrick, who worked at Marine Scotland, gagged and taped to her chair. Ms. Fitzpatrick has sued, accusing co-workers of a campaign of harassment.
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• North Korea Says It Will Give Trump ‘Time and Opportunity’ to Reconsider
  Thu, 24 May 2018 23:38:20 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  Mr. Trump on Thursday.
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• ‘Be Very Careful’: Conversation Cited to Link Qatar to Hack of G.O.P. Donor
  Fri, 25 May 2018 18:51:13 GMT-DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
  Elliott Broidy in New York in 2008.
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• G.D.P.R., a New Privacy Law, Makes Europe World’s Leading Tech Watchdog
  Fri, 25 May 2018 07:41:49 GMT-ADAM SATARIANO
  The European Union on Friday enacts the world’s toughest rules to protect people’s online data.
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• North Korea, Harvey Weinstein, Syria: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
  Thu, 24 May 2018 22:29:01 GMT-KAREN ZRAICK and VIRGINIA LOZANO
• News Analysis: Trump’s Negotiating Playbook Faced Test in North Korea
  Fri, 25 May 2018 15:20:31 GMT-DAVID E. SANGER
  On Thursday, President Trump canceled the June 12 summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader.
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• Anatomy of a Breakup: The Turbulent Relationship of Trump and Kim Jong-un
  Thu, 24 May 2018 21:39:33 GMT-MIKAYLA BOUCHARD
  Images of President Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, were shown on Thursday during a news broadcast in Seoul, South Korea.
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• Irish Expats Travel Home to Vote on Abortion Referendum
  Fri, 25 May 2018 23:26:23 GMT-MATTHEW HAAG
  Irish citizens who moved away are returning this week to vote in Friday’s referendum on abortion. “I’m coming home for me, for my friends, sisters and all Irish women,” one woman said.
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• Pakistan to Give Equal Rights to Millions in Tribal Areas, Ending a British Legacy
  Fri, 25 May 2018 03:27:31 GMT-SALMAN MASOOD
  Hundreds of people from Pakistan’s tribal areas rallying in Islamabad last year against colonial-era laws, which denied basic legal rights, such as a right to a trial, to people in the northwestern regions.
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• E.U. Settles With Russia’s Gazprom Over Antitrust Charges
  Sun, 27 May 2018 02:56:07 GMT-STANLEY REED and MILAN SCHREUER
  A Gazprom facility in Siberia, Russia. The company accepted measures to assure the free flow of gas among European member states, clearing barriers that allowed Gazprom to charge higher prices.
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