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• Hong Kong Violence Escalates as Police and Protesters Clash at University
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 04:43:15 +0000-Edward Wong, Mike Ives, Tiffany May, Katherine Li and Lam Yik Fei
  As riot police tried storming a campus occupied by activists, they were met by protesters fighting back with Molotov cocktails and bows-and-arrows.
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• Turkey’s Deportations Force Europe to Face Its ISIS Militants
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:20:52 +0000-Norimitsu Onishi and Elian Peltier
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to send back foreign citizens who supported the Islamic State is handing Western Europe a problem it had hoped to avoid.
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• Dueling Matteos Battle for the Future of Italy
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 07:23:24 +0000-Jason Horowitz
  Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and the popular anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini may be out of power. But their sparring has come to dominate Italy’s political life.
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• Prince Andrew Talks About His Ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and Britain Is Appalled
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 19:10:52 +0000-Mark Landler
  Viewers were incredulous that the Duke of York subjected himself to polite-but-relentless grilling about accusations that he had sex with a teenager.
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• Jennifer Arcuri Says Boris Johnson Cast Her Aside Like a ‘One-Night Stand’
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:26:57 +0000-Iliana Magra
  The American businesswoman’s ties to the British prime minister have come under scrutiny.
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• Gotabaya Rajapaksa Wins Sri Lanka Presidential Election
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 05:01:10 +0000-Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz
  Mr. Rajapaksa, a former defense chief and brother of an ex-president, vowed to bring stability to a country still reeling from attacks on Easter Sunday.
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• Iran Blocks Nearly All Internet Access
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:21:35 +0000-Farnaz Fassihi
  Anti-government protests spread as the supreme leader supports a gas price increase.
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• 5 Takeaways From the Leaked Files on China’s Mass Detention of Muslims
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 17:50:13 +0000-Austin Ramzy
  Hundreds of pages of internal papers offer new insight into how the program began, how it was justified even as the damage it caused was clear, and how some officials resisted it.
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• Sadistic Beating on Irish Border Raises Alarms About Return to Violence
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:01:32 +0000-Ed O’Loughlin
  The brutal attack on a businessman was not directly related to sectarian violence or Brexit, but it has conjured fears of a grim future if a hard border is reimposed.
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• New Statue Unsettles Italian City: Is It Celebrating a Poet or a Nationalist?
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:33:13 +0000-Jason Horowitz
  Boasting a proud literary pedigree, Trieste is populated with statues. But none has provoked passions like that of Gabriele d’Annunzio, who inspired Fascism and briefly ruled his own state last century.
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• Fear Has Yet to Be Extinguished After Chemical Fire in France
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 18:43:51 +0000-Adam Nossiter
  For Rouen, Normandy’s ancient capital, the Lubrizol factory fire has become the disaster that won’t die.
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• A 9-Year-Old Is About to Get a University Degree. He Has #Giganticplans.
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 15:14:37 +0000-Elian Peltier
  Laurent Simons of Belgium wants to make artificial hearts. He also loves Fortnite and has thousands of followers on Instagram.
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• Ethnic Rifts in Bolivia Burst Into View With Fall of Evo Morales
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 14:06:15 +0000-Anatoly Kurmanaev and Clifford Krauss
  As the country’s first Indigenous president has tumbled from power, Indigenous Bolivians fear the loss of their hard-won political gains, and say a racial backlash has begun.
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• TikTok’s Chief Is on a Mission to Prove It’s Not a Menace
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:00:09 +0000-Raymond Zhong
  Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington’s fears. “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
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• Iran and Xinjiang Documents, Hong Kong, Prince Andrew: Your Monday Briefing
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 06:11:33 +0000-Melina Delkic and Victoria Shannon
  Here’s what you need to know
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• Hong Kong Protests: Campus Siege Enters a Second Day as Court Overturns Mask Ban
  Mon, 18 Nov 2019 08:04:44 +0000-Elaine Yu and Russell Goldman
  Students, armed with homemade weapons, remained bunkered down on a university campus awaiting a police operation to remove them.
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• Your Monday Briefing
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:25:40 +0000-Melina Delkic
  Hong Kong, Xinjiang documents, Prince Andrew: Here’s what you need to know.
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• Saudi Aramco Sets Its Market Value at Up to $1.7 Trillion
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:02:07 +0000-Stanley Reed
  The world’s largest oil company is providing more data for potential investors in its initial public offering, which is expected next month.
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• Werner G. Doehner, Last Survivor of the Hindenburg, Dies at 90
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 17:49:41 +0000-Mariel Padilla
  He was 8 and traveling with his family when the German airship caught fire and crashed in New Jersey.
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• In Bolivia, Interim Leader Sets Conservative, Religious Tone
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:37:18 +0000-Anatoly Kurmanaev
  The leader, Jeanine Añez, promised to unify a nation in turmoil. But her initial steps, taking the country rightward and injecting religious themes, risk deepening the divide.
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• Protests Incited by Gas Price Hike Grip Iran
  Sun, 17 Nov 2019 05:28:55 +0000-Farnaz Fassihi
  The unrest put renewed pressure on the government as it struggles to overcome U.S. sanctions.
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• ‘Yellow Vest’ Anniversary Brings Fires, Tear Gas and Dwindled Crowds
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 21:46:11 +0000-Adam Nossiter
  A protest movement that once brought tens of thousands to the streets of Paris has been confined to marginal sites and outmaneuvered by the president whose program it challenged.
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• In Sri Lanka’s Presidential Election, a Question of Security vs. Rights
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 15:15:18 +0000-Dharisha Bastians and Kai Schultz
  The election could mean a return to power for the Rajapaksa family, who ended the country’s civil war by brutal means.
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• Prince Andrew Says He ‘Let the Side Down’ When He Stayed With Jeffrey Epstein
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 00:14:45 +0000-Megan Specia and Neil Vigdor
  The Duke of York told the BBC that his 2010 visit to Mr. Epstein’s Manhattan mansion was unbecoming for a member of Britain’s royal family.
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• Along Alberta’s Cowboy Trail
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 20:55:47 +0000-Ian Austen
  A visit to the town of Longview brought back the province’s past.
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• Putin and Zelensky to Meet for First Time Over Ukraine Conflict
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 20:39:05 +0000-Anton Troianovski
  The war is the biggest flash point in a broader conflict between Moscow and the West, triggering international sanctions and rippling into the American impeachment hearings.
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• Economic Crisis Looms as Protests Rage in Lebanon
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 01:52:20 +0000-Ben Hubbard
  After a monthlong political crisis, Lebanon faces an economic one, too, as the effects of long-term policies crash into citizens’ lives.
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• India, Choking on Toxic Air, Tries Something New: An Oxygen Bar
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 19:26:43 +0000-Suhasini Raj and Kai Schultz
  As top officials remain silent, the country’s pollution levels remained hazardous this week, prompting a second closure of schools in the capital and a sometimes desperate search for clean air.
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• Iran Abruptly Raises Fuel Prices, and Protests Erupt
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 05:12:21 +0000-Farnaz Fassihi and Rick Gladstone
  The timing of the announcement suggested an urgent scramble to fill a budget gap caused partly by severe American sanctions. Angry protests over the price increases soon followed.
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• Germany Passes Climate-Protection Law to Ensure 2030 Goals
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:50:30 +0000-Melissa Eddy
  The law aims to get the country in line to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions to meet Paris Agreement targets.
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• Russia Frees Norwegian Convicted of Spying in Unusual 3-Way Swap
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 10:55:19 +0000-Anton Troianovski
  A retired Norwegian border inspector, two Lithuanians and two convicted Russian spies were exchanged.
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• Pushed From Hungary, University Created by Soros Shifts to Vienna
  Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:23:47 +0000-Benjamin Novak
  Central European University and its founder, George Soros, have been favorite targets of Hungary’s leader, Viktor Orban, as he stifles dissenting voices.
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• In Win for Protesters, Chile to Vote on Replacing Constitution
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:47:18 +0000-Reuters
  The country plans to hold a referendum next April on replacing the country’s dictatorship-era constitution.
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• Crashing and Burning Years After the War Is Over
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:41:31 +0000-Adam Linehan
  How does one survive war and not be miserable? For one veteran, it meant going back to the battlefield where it all started.
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• Inside Hong Kong’s Battle-Ready Campuses
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:17:10 +0000-Tiffany May and Lam Yik Fei
  Classrooms may be empty, but universities are bustling with preparation for confrontations with the police.
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• A Victim Not Only of Unjust Laws, but of ‘Unjust Authorities’
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:52:40 +0000-Aida Alami
  An investigative reporter from a prominent Moroccan family was wrongly accused of having had an abortion. Now she wants to hold officials’ feet to the fire.
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• In Strike That Killed 5 Children, Israel Said It Took Out Gaza Militant. Now It Isn’t Sure.
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:12:40 +0000-Iyad Abuheweila and David M. Halbfinger
  The Israeli military said it has begun an investigation into who was actually killed in an airstrike that Palestinians said caused the deaths of eight civilians.
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• Marie Yovanovitch, Saugus High School, Cleveland Browns: Your Friday Briefing
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:16:47 +0000-Chris Stanford
  Here's what you need to know.
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• South Korea Resists U.S. Pressure to Improve Ties With Japan
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:34:05 +0000-Choe Sang-Hun
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper had urged Seoul to reconsider abandoning a military intelligence-sharing deal with Tokyo.
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• Nestlé Says It Can Be Virtuous and Profitable. Is That Even Possible?
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 18:31:06 +0000-Jack Ewing
  The world’s largest food company is trying to show it can be environmentally sustainable and still make money. Activists are skeptical.
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• Ho Chi Minh City’s Hilarious Side
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:00:20 +0000-Kim I. Mott
  Stand-up comedy is sweeping Vietnam’s largest city, often called Saigon, with locals braving open-mic nights in the city’s hippest cafes and bars.
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• Boris Johnson, Hong Kong, Syria: Your Friday Briefing
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 06:06:41 +0000-Andrea Kannapell
  Here’s what you need to know.
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• ‘Your Face Is Burning.’ How It Feels to Photograph Australia’s Fires
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 06:46:26 +0000-Isabella Kwai
  As bushfires swept Australia’s east coast on Tuesday, our photographer shot residents and firefighters close to the blaze.
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• Iraqi Protesters Cheer Victory Over Iran, at Least on the Soccer Field
  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 02:11:48 +0000-Falih Hassan and Alissa J. Rubin
  The police and the politicians joined protesters in celebrating Iraq’s defeat of Iran in a World Cup qualifying match. Tensions between the countries are running high.
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• Boris Johnson Was Supposed to Be an Ace Campaigner. So Why Is He Stumbling?
  Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:31:03 +0000-Mark Landler and Stephen Castle
  Exposed to hostile voices on the campaign trail, he has seemed at times unsure, tone deaf and gaffe prone. It could leave an opening for the underdog Labour Party.
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• After Major Earthquake, Indonesia Lifts Tsunami Alert
  Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:28:43 +0000-Reuters
  More than 20 aftershocks followed the quake, which had a magnitude of 7.1.
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• U.N. Query on Syria Hospital Bombings May Be Undermined by Russia Pressure, Limited Scope
  Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:36:46 +0000-Whitney Hurst and Rick Gladstone
  The United Nations is investigating attacks on seven humanitarian sites in Syria. Diplomats say Russia is trying to keep the U.N. findings secret.
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• Your Friday Briefing
  Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:17:53 +0000-Melina Delkic
  Hong Kong, Australia fires, llamas: Here’s what you need to know.
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• Experts Divided on Authenticity of Islamic State Receipts
  Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:09:57 +0000-Rukmini Callimachi
  A Times article based on documents recovered by a researcher reported that ISIS made payments to members of a rival group.
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• North Korea Says U.S. Sought More Talks, but Calls It a ‘Trick’
  Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:59:05 +0000-Choe Sang-Hun
  The top North Korean envoy to the negotiations with Washington said he was not interested unless the United States was ready to make substantial concessions.
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