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• Turkey’s Election: What to Watch For
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:47:43 GMT-ILIANA MAGRA and PATRICK KINGSLEY
  A rally in Istanbul this month in support of Mr. Erdogan.
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• A Moment to Savor: A Saudi Woman Rejoices as Driving Ban Ends
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 23:54:54 GMT-MARGARET COKER
  Hessah Alajaji took to the road on Saturday night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, hours before the driving was ban officially lifted.
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• Jared Kushner Criticizes Abbas, Questioning His Ability to Make Peace
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 13:13:07 GMT-DAVID M. HALBFINGER
  Jared Kushner, right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in Jerusalem on Friday. Mr. Kushner told a Palestinian newspaper that the United States was “almost done” preparing its peace plan.
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• Cairo Dispatch: Even With Mo Salah in the World Cup, Egypt Can’t Seem to Catch a Break
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 11:35:52 GMT-DECLAN WALSH
  A coffee shop in Cairo featured a mural of Mohamed Salah, Egypt’s star striker who has become a national hero.
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• New Zealand’s Leader, Jacinda Ardern, Introduces Baby Daughter
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:49:14 GMT-CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand, right, with her partner, Clarke Gayford, and their newborn daughter, Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford, in Auckland on Sunday. Mr. Gayford will be a stay-at-home parent, Ms. Ardern said.
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• Ethiopia’s New Leader Raises Hopes. Now Comes the Hard Part.
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 19:11:56 GMT-SOMINI SENGUPTA
  The prime minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, is one of the youngest leaders in all of Africa, and he is shaking up some old ways of doing things.
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• Deadly Grenade Attack at Ethiopian Prime Minister’s Rally
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:54:53 GMT-HADRA AHMED
  The aftermath of a blast at a rally for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday. Several people were injured after someone tossed a grenade.
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• Prince William Lands in Jordan for ‘Historic’ Middle East Trip
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 14:54:16 GMT-THE NEW YORK TIMES
  Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah II, center, welcomed Prince William in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday.
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• Iraqi Political Alliance Unites a U.S. Friend and Foe
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 23:22:34 GMT-FALIH HASSAN and ROD NORDLAND
  Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, right, at a news conference with the Shiite cleric and leader Moktada al-Sadr in Najaf, where they announced a political alliance.
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• U.S. Military Prepares to Receive Soldiers’ Remains from North Korea
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 01:03:06 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  North Korea is expected to hand over the remains of more than 200 American servicemen killed during the Korean War.
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• Vatican Court Sentences Cleric to 5 Years on Child Pornography Charges
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:06:52 GMT-ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
  Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella, left, with his lawyer, Roberto Borgogno, in a Vatican courtroom on Saturday. Monsignor Capella was recalled from Washington in September.
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• To Contain Tourism, One Spanish City Strikes a Ban, on Airbnb
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:50:46 GMT-RAPHAEL MINDER
  The port of Palma de Mallorca, Spain. It will become the first Spanish city to ban the short-term rental of apartments sites like Airbnb.
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• Where Danes Butt Heads (Politely) With Their Leaders
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:41:42 GMT-MARTIN SELSOE SORENSEN
  Folkemodet, a political festival, draws Danes of all walks of life to the remote island of Bornholm, Denmark, in June.
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• Blast Rocks Political Rally in Zimbabwe, but President Unhurt
  Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:06:49 GMT-REUTERS
  White City Stadium, where President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaped unhurt after an explosion in the stadium on Saturday in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
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• Thousands of Brexit Protesters March in London on Referendum Anniversary
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 22:09:12 GMT-MEGAN SPECIA
  Protesters marched through London on Saturday calling for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
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• Indonesia’s Order to Foreign Workers: Learn the Language
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 17:54:45 GMT-JOE COCHRANE
  President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, center, has alarmed foreign businesses with a requirement that expatriate workers undergo formal language training.
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• Saudis, Saying They Heard Price Complaints, Are Raising Oil Production
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 16:27:54 GMT-STANLEY REED
  Khalid al-Falih, the Saudi energy minister, before the start of the meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Friday.
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• World Cup Soccer’s Spanish Accent Mark: For Mexico and a Times Editor, It’s a Win-Win
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 15:58:58 GMT-RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
  "#Put the accent on it." Paulina Chavira, an editor at The New York Times en Español, shows off a gift she received from a fellow journalist in Mexico City to celebrate the impact she has had on the way Mexico's national soccer team displays players' names on their jerseys.
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• Iraq Says It Bombed a Meeting of Islamic State Leaders in Syria
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:43:46 GMT-REUTERS
  Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of Iraq declared victory over the Islamic State in December, but the militants still operate along the border with Syria and have continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
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• For Saudi Women, Challenges Go Far Beyond Driving
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:37:44 GMT-LARA TAKENAGA
• Kim Jong-pil, Political Kingmaker in South Korea, Dies at 92
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:44:42 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  Kim Jong-pil in 1997. He was one of the so-called Three Kims who dominated South Korean politics for decades. The other two were presidents, both of whom he helped bring to power.
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• Trudeau Doesn’t Separate Refugee Families, but He Does Send Them Away: the Canada Letter
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:26:43 GMT-IAN AUSTEN
  A 2-year-old Honduran girl with her mother after being detained by Border Patrol agents this month in McAllen, Tex.
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• Border Children, Trade War, N.B.A. Draft: Your Friday Evening Briefing
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 22:03:26 GMT-CHARLES McDERMID and MARCUS PAYADUE
• How Guardianship Laws Still Control Saudi Women
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 11:37:42 GMT-MARGARET COKER
  Seham Al Amri, left, a sales consultant at a newly integrated workplace at a Saudi car dealership, with a client.
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• As Housing Prices Soar, New Zealand Tackles a Surge in Homelessness
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:47:26 GMT-CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
  Homeless men in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. A study found that New Zealand has the highest homelessness rate among the wealthy nations that make up the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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• Who Is Running Against Erdogan? Meet the Opposition Candidates
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:29:33 GMT-ILIANA MAGRA
  Muharrem Ince, an opposition presidential candidate, waving to supporters during a campaign rally in Izmir, Turkey.
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• Turkey’s Democratic Opposition Tests Cracks in Erdogan’s Iron Grip on Voters
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 21:26:40 GMT-CARLOTTA GALL
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s persona has dominated the campaign, his posters are the largest and most numerous.
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• Migration to Europe Is Slowing, but the Political Issue Is as Toxic as Ever
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:24:34 GMT-STEVEN ERLANGER
  A policeman checking a migrant disembarking from the Coast Guard patrol vessel Diciotti at the port of Pozzallo, Italy, following a rescue operation at sea.
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• ‘Billy Elliot’ Musical Branded Gay Propaganda in Hungary; Cancellations Follow
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:40:41 GMT-PALKO KARASZ
  The Hungarian State Opera’s production of “Billy Elliot,” previously popular, was attacked before its summer revival by a columnist in a pro-government newspaper. The article said that the musical’s message of “Dare to be yourself” referred “of course” to being gay.
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• Airbus Tells Britain It Wants Details of a Brexit Deal, or Else
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 18:48:10 GMT-AMIE TSANG
  The European aerospace giant Airbus has delivered an unusually direct ultimatum over Brexit, warning it could leave Britain if the country exits the European Union without a transition deal.
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• The Saturday Profile: By Taking a Bullet, a Muslim Woman Finds Her Calling
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 14:21:53 GMT-MELISSA EDDY
  Seyran Ates, center, pictured in June 2017, the month the Ibn Rushd-Goethe Mosque in Berlin opened. “We want to send a signal to political Islam,” she said recently. “We want to show that another Islam exists that has nothing to do with terrorism.”
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• He Left Work for 3 Minutes Before His Lunch Break. Now His Pay Is Docked.
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 03:03:48 GMT-YONETTE JOSEPH and MAKIKO INOUE
  In Japan, many workers consider needing to nap in public a sign of diligence and commitment.
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• The Two Koreas Agree to Hold Reunions of Families Divided by War
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:51:39 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  In front of pictures of previous gatherings, a Red Cross official in Seoul took applications on Friday for an expected inter-Korean family reunion set for August.
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• Fact Check: Is There Truth to Trump’s Bold Claims about North Korean Denuclearization?
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:02:43 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  President Trump has made bold claims about what his June 12 summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, achieved.
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• Saudi Women Can Drive, but Here’s the Real Roadblock
  Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:45 GMT-MARGARET COKER
  Hanan Iskandar, on the motorcycle, and Doaa Bassem, second from left, received training this month to prepare for this Sunday, the first day women will be legally permitted to drive in Saudi Arabia.
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• Italy’s Economy Was Humming Nicely. Then Came Trump.
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:00:25 GMT-PETER S. GOODMAN
  A factory in Assisi, Italy, run by IRON, which makes industrial steel parts. “We depend on access to a global market,” the company’s commercial director, Claudio Capponi, said. “It’s the uncertainty that is driving us mad.”
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• Indonesia Sentences ISIS Recruiter to Death
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:34:21 GMT-MUKTITA SUHARTONO and RICHARD C. PADDOCK
  Aman Abdurrahman, center, a leading recruiter and ideologue for the Islamic State in Indonesia, was taken from a court in Jakarta on Friday after being sentenced to death.
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• International Herald Tribune: 1893: Spanish Conservative Leader Escapes Dynamite Attack
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:00:01 GMT-THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
  Three anarchists injured themselves in their attempt to murder the Spanish Conservative leader.
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• Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 17:54:42 GMT-PAUL MOZUR
  Micron memory chips. The chips give phones and computers the critical ability to store and quickly retrieve information.
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• 5 Men in ‘Wolf Pack’ Pamplona Sexual Assault Case Are Released on Bail
  Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:39:08 GMT-RAPHAEL MINDER
  Demonstrators held signs saying “It is not an abuse. It’s rape” and “Enough of patriarchal justice” while protesting a ruling in a sexual assault case on Thursday in Pamplona, Spain.
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• Immigration, Supreme Court, Intel: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:33:28 GMT-KAREN ZRAICK, JOUMANA KHATIB and MARCUS PAYADUE
• Romanian Court Convicts Top Politician in Test of Judicial System
  Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:18:49 GMT-KIT GILLET
  Liviu Dragnea, center in dark tie, Romania’s most powerful politician, was convicted Thursday of official misconduct and sentenced to more than three years in prison.
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• Iraqi Court Backs Recount of All Ballots Cast in Last Month’s Elections
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:31:31 GMT-FALIH HASSAN and SEWELL CHAN
  An Iraqi woman cast a vote in parliamentary elections in Baghdad last month.
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• A Canal Through Turkey? Presidential Vote Is a Test of Erdogan’s Building Spree
  Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:17:54 GMT-CARLOTTA GALL and SERGEY PONOMAREV
  On Istanbul’s highest hill overlooking the Bosporus, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is building the gigantic Camlica Mosque, with six minarets, the insignia for greatness.
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• Algeria’s Answer to Cheating on School Exams: Turn Off the Internet
  Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:46:05 GMT-NOUR YOUSSEF
  Students at a secondary school in Algiers in 2008. The country had large-scale electronic cheating scandals around its critical high-school exams in both 2016 and 2017.
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• Benetton ‘Migrants’ Ads Draw Outrage for Using Photos of Real Migrants
  Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:21:53 GMT-CEYLAN YEGINSU
  A picture of migrants being rescued in the Mediterranean was used by the Italian fashion retailer Benetton in an ad campaign.
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• He Leapt to Catch a Thief. A Photographer Caught the Moment.
  Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:42:56 GMT-PALKO KARASZ
  A bystander tackling a theft suspect in a busy shopping street in Manchester, England, on Wednesday.
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• Trump Seeks Meeting With Putin Even as Allies Seek to Isolate Russia
  Thu, 21 Jun 2018 23:59:07 GMT-PETER BAKER and ANDREW E. KRAMER
  John R. Bolton, right, President Trump’s national security adviser, is to visit Moscow next week, after first stopping in London and Rome.
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