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• News Analysis: Hamas and Israel Are in a Perilous Cycle. Is War a Miscalculation Away?
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:00:04 GMT-ISABEL KERSHNER
  Hamas members on Saturday carried the body of a fellow militant killed in an Israeli airstrike.
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• Brazil’s Military Strides Into Politics, by the Ballot or by Force
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:19:24 GMT-ERNESTO LONDOÑO and MANUELA ANDREONI
  Jair Bolsonaro (L), a Brazilian congressman and presidential candidate for the next election, takes pictures with soldiers during a military event in São Paulo, Brazil, in May.
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• Russia Seeks Release of Woman Accused of Being Covert Agent
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:56:30 GMT-ANDREW E. KRAMER
  President Vladimir V. Putin with his foreign minister, Sergei V. Lavrov, on Thursday in Moscow.
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• Military’s Influence Casts a Shadow Over Pakistan’s Election
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:28:27 GMT-MARIA ABI-HABIB and SALMAN MASOOD
  Banners and flags of different political parties ahead of elections, in Karachi, Pakistan.
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• In Duterte’s Philippines, Having a Beer Can Now Land You in Jail
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 08:25:02 GMT-AURORA ALMENDRAL
  Edwin Panis, 45, was arrested in June for drinking outdoors in a Manila slum, part of a police crackdown on minor infractions. “The war on drugs has become a war on drunks,” he said.
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• With Brexit Deadlocked, Britain Stares Over a Cliff
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 07:00:08 GMT-STEPHEN CASTLE
  Anti-Brexit protesters outside the Houses of Parliament in London this month. For months, the consuming political narrative has been the fight within the Conservative Party.
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• A New Battle for Guadalcanal, This Time With China
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:59:47 GMT-DAMIEN CAVE
  Australia pledged in June to build an undersea internet cable to the Solomon Islands.
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• Attacks on Roma Force Ukraine to Confront an Old Ethnic Enmity
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 16:29:05 GMT-IULIIA MENDEL
  Roma preparing flowers to sell in Kiev, Ukraine, last month. Roma camps in the country have recently been the target of attacks from nationalist groups.
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• Australians Protest Five Years of Offshore Detention Policy
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 20:02:05 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  Demonstrators marching in Sydney on Saturday to protest a policy that turns away asylum-seekers and migrants from Australian shores, detaining them on remote Pacific islands.
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• Margaret Thatcher and Her Teddy Bears: Inside the Private Files
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 12:26:05 GMT-YONETTE JOSEPH
  Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, England, in 1988.
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• American Arrested at Protest in Vietnam Is to Be Deported
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 07:32:11 GMT-AUSTIN RAMZY
  Vietnamese officers escorted Will Nguyen to his trial in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, where it was announced that he would be deported. Mr. Nguyen, who is from Houston, could have been sent to prison for seven years.
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• U.K. Is Using Children as Undercover Spies, Report Says
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:34:36 GMT-CEYLAN YEGINSU
  A former counterterrorism detective for the Metropolitan Police said that child informants were used as a last resort in Britain.
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• Seduced by Hate, Indian Politician Embraces a Lynch Mob
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 01:01:07 GMT-JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and HARI KUMAR
  A political poster in Hazaribagh, India, featuring an image of Jayant Sinha, a government minister who draped garlands on eight men convicted of beating a Muslim man to death.
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• Russian ‘Flash Mob’ Urges U.S. to Free Maria Butina
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:41:58 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  The Foreign Ministry began a social media campaign calling for the release of Maria Butina, who is accused of acting as a covert Russian agent.
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• Wild About Tech, China Even Loves Robot Waiters That Can’t Serve
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 19:02:29 GMT-PAUL MOZUR
  This is about as far as the nonhuman waiters can go at the Robot Magic Restaurant in Shanghai. After diners take photos and videos, regular waiters step in to serve the food.
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• Around the World, Readers React to Shifting U.S. Alliances
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 14:11:19 GMT-GENEVA ABDUL
  President Trump arriving in Finland this past week for a summit meeting with the Russian leader, Vladimir V. Putin.
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• Eritrea Names First Ambassador to Ethiopia in Two Decades
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 11:21:27 GMT-REUTERS
  The appointment of Semere Russom, a former envoy to the U.S., to the post in Addis Ababa was another sign of the rapid rapprochement.
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• Ciudad Tecún Umán Dispatch: Rafting Across a Mexico River to Make a Living, and Remake a Life
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:00:06 GMT-KIRK SEMPLE
  The rafts that ply the Suchiate River on the Mexico-Guatemala border are made of wood planks lashed to tractor tires.
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• Israel Cements Right-Wing Agenda in a Furious Week of Lawmaking
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 23:34:10 GMT-DAVID M. HALBFINGER
  Members of Israel’s Parliament with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week after lawmakers passed a contentious bill that defines Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
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• Inside the Great Traveling Circus of the Tour de France: the Canada Letter
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:16:50 GMT-IAN AUSTEN
  A brutal final climb on Wednesday separated most of the riders at the Tour de France.
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• Michael Cohen, Missouri, Trump: Your Friday Evening Briefing
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:10:33 GMT-JOUMANA KHATIB and DEBBIE BONDULIC
• Pompeo, at U.N., Says North Korean Leader Must Keep Vow to Denuclearize
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 20:40:58 GMT-RICK GLADSTONE and SATOSHI SUGIYAMA
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, on Friday. Mr. Pompeo said sanctions enforcement was “critical.”
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• Insider Attack in Afghanistan Exposes Risks for Advisers at Center of Trump Strategy
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 03:53:15 GMT-THOMAS GIBBONS-NEFF
  A member of the United States Air Force watching over the runway at Kandahar Air Field last year. American troops operating in Kandahar and in Oruzgan, Zabul and Daikundi Provinces now have strict security guidelines when training and working with Afghan soldiers.
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• Israel Launches Broad Air Assault in Gaza Following Border Violence
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 00:49:51 GMT-ISABEL KERSHNER
  An explosion from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Friday.
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• British Man Poisoned by Novichok Is Released From Hospital
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:21:14 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  Charlie Rowley and his girlfriend were exposed to the nerve agent Novichok on July 1. She died, but he survived.
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• Isolated Indigenous Man Filmed in the Amazon
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:06:07 GMT-
  The Brazilian government’s indigenous affairs agency released footage of the man in Rondônia. The agency said that he is the sole surviving member of his tribe after the rest were attacked over 20 years ago.
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• Tribe’s Lone Survivor Glimpsed in Amazon Jungle, Healthy and at Work
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:09:05 GMT-ERNESTO LONDOÑO
  The Amazon rainforest in Brazil. More than 100 isolated communities survive in remote parts of Brazil.
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• Singapore’s Prime Minister Among 1.5 Million Affected by Cyberattack
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:16:46 GMT-HANNAH BEECH
  Singaporean officials on Friday held a news conference to talk about a cyberattack on Singapore’s public health system.
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• Macron to Fire Aide Who Hit Protester, but Pressure Mounts
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:02:20 GMT-AURELIEN BREEDEN
  Alexandre Benalla, center, next to Emmanuel Macron in Paris during the French presidential campaign last year. French news outlets have published a steady stream of footage showing Mr. Benalla with Mr. Macron.
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• Saturday Profile: Rapper Translates U.K.’s Angry Underprivileged for the Middle and Upper Classes
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:41:39 GMT-KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
  Darren McGarvey said his upbringing in Glasgow gave him an understanding of violence and its expressive functions.
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• Hold Still, Butterflies. Britain Is Counting.
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:20:41 GMT-YONETTE JOSEPH
  A butterfly at London Zoo last month. Three-quarters of the 56 species of butterflies in Britain and Ireland are in decline, according to the charity Butterfly Conservation.
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• A Family of 14 Dies in an Airstrike. U.S. Officials Deny They Were Civilians.
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:33:56 GMT-NAJIM RAHIM and ROD NORDLAND
  The home bombed by the American military on Thursday where 14 members of a family were killed, according to Afghan officials.
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• He’s Supposed to Marry a Japanese Princess. Just Don’t Call Him Her Fiancé.
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 09:53:53 GMT-MOTOKO RICH
  Princess Mako during an event at the Nikkei Association in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday.
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• Chinese Shopping App Pinduoduo Sued in U.S. Ahead of I.P.O.
  Sat, 21 Jul 2018 02:41:08 GMT-RAYMOND ZHONG
  The Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo has drawn nearly 350 million people in the past year, according to the company, which would make it one of China’s most popular e-commerce providers.
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• U.S. Rebuffed at U.N. on North Korea Sanctions Enforcement
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 05:58:59 GMT-RICK GLADSTONE
  A photo released by Japan’s Defense Ministry in February shows what it says are North Korean tankers in the East China Sea. Russia and China on Thursday blocked an American request for disciplinary action to stop what the United States called illegal oil sales to North Korea.
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• Report Finds Surprisingly High Rate of Slavery in Developed Countries
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:26:21 GMT-SATOSHI SUGIYAMA
  Yeonmi Park in April. The scariest thing, she recalled of her captivity, was being forgotten.
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• Inside That Black Sarcophagus in Egypt? 3 Mummies (and No Curses)
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:24:58 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  The neighborhood where a sarcophagus containing three skeletons was found in Alexandria, Egypt, on Thursday.
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• Trump, Putin, Facebook: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:12:51 GMT-JOUMANA KHATIB and DEBBIE BONDULIC
• Montenegro: What to Know About the Tiny NATO Ally Trump Slighted
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 22:28:20 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  President Milo Djukanovic of Montenegro, center, arriving at NATO headquarters for the alliance’s summit meeting in Brussels last week.
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• American Accused of Being ISIS Fighter in Syria Faces Prosecution in U.S.
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:48:25 GMT-RUKMINI CALLIMACHI, ERIC SCHMITT and CHARLIE SAVAGE
  Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces in May. The militia captured an American citizen said to have been fighting for the Islamic State.
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• A Cobra Strikes. A Magician Is Stricken. Middle Eastern Foes Unite.
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:38:41 GMT-DECLAN WALSH
  Aref Ghafouri, a magician who was bitten by a Egyptian cobra, at a hospital in Cairo. “He should be 100 percent fit in a couple of days,” a doctor said.
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• Trump to Invite Putin to Washington, Blindsiding His Intelligence Chief
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:56:48 GMT-MARK LANDLER
  The White House rejected a proposal by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that would have allowed American officials to question 12 indicted Russians in exchange for getting access to American citizens.
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• Tech Fix: For Android Users, Europe’s Google Ruling Leaves Unanswered Questions
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:03:00 GMT-BRIAN X. CHEN
  A statue of Google’s Android mascot in Montélimar, France. The effects of the European Union’s $5.1 billion fine against Google over its Android practices involve many ifs.
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• Mugabe Has Left, but His Legacy Haunts Zimbabwe’s Election
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:54:51 GMT-JEFFREY MOYO
  President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, center right, inspected a military honor guard during an Independence Day celebration in April.
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• How E.U. Is Getting Ready for Chaos in a Worst-Case Brexit
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 02:33:13 GMT-LIZ ALDERMAN
  In the Netherlands, one of Britain’s biggest European trading partners, officials are recruiting nearly 1,000 new customs officials for the Rotterdam cargo port, as well as at airports, ahead of Britain’s exit from the European Union.
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• U.S.-Funded Broadcaster Directed Ads to Americans
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 21:59:39 GMT-KEVIN ROOSE
  The Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty newsroom. The broadcaster is mostly restricted by law from promoting its content in the United States.
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• Tensions Escalate Between Greece and Russia, With Macedonia in the Middle
  Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:17:02 GMT-NIKI KITSANTONIS
  Greek police and army officers waiting for President Vladimir V. Putin to arrive for a visit in 2016. Greece and Russia have traditionally had friendly ties.
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• Spanish Judge Drops Pursuit of Puigdemont, Catalonia Separatist Leader
  Fri, 20 Jul 2018 03:08:27 GMT-RAPHAEL MINDER
  Carles Puigdemont, left, the former leader of Catalonia, with his successor, Quim Torra, in Berlin last month.
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