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• Ukraine Asserts Major Russian Military Buildup on Eastern Border
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 11:17:22 GMT-ANDREW E. KRAMER
  A Russian guard on the Russian side of the border with Milove, Ukraine, early this month.
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• Paris Is Fortified as 5th Week of ‘Yellow Vests’ Protests Brings Scuffles and Tear Gas
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:06:56 GMT-AURELIEN BREEDEN
  Protesters took to the streets of Paris again on Saturday to express anger against President Emmanuel Macron and his policies.
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• Mexico City Dispatch: Virgin of Guadalupe Is ‘No. 1 Mother’ in Mexico, a Binding Force Across Divides
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:44:25 GMT-KIRK SEMPLE
  Thousands camping in the plaza of the Basilica of Guadalupe complex during an annual pilgrimage to Mexico’s most important shrine.
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• Brazil’s Violent Drug Trade Overruns Paraguay: ‘Scenes You Only See in Movies’
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 10:00:05 GMT-ERNESTO LONDOÑO
  Marcelo Pinheiro Veiga, a major drug trafficker, at a news conference in Paraguay last month, made a case not to be extradited to Brazil.
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• Australia Recognizes West Jerusalem as Capital of Israel
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:42:06 GMT-ISABELLA KWAI
  In a speech at the Australian Institute in Sydney on Saturday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, “It is the right of every country to determine its national capital.”
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• Sri Lanka’s Disputed Prime Minister Will Step Down
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:40:03 GMT-MARIA ABI-HABIB and DHARISHA BASTIANS
  Mahinda Rajapaksa planned to address the nation on Saturday and relinquish his claim to be Sri Lanka’s prime minister.
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• Afghan President Slaps Aide After Elite Guards Assault Petitioner
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:12:14 GMT-MOHAMMAD SABER and MUJIB MASHAL
  The opening of a new economic corridor should’ve brought President Ashraf Ghani positive news. But video from the event shows a confrontation that turned chaotic.
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• He’s Handing Over the Presidency but Not Necessarily His Power
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:52:48 GMT-KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA
  President Joseph Kabila at his personal ranch near Kinshasa, the capital of Congo. He has been in office since his father’s assassination in 2001.
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• News Analysis: Australian Gag Order Stokes Global Debate on Secrecy
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:22:25 GMT-DAMIEN CAVE
  A newsstand in Australia, where coverage of a high-profile criminal case has been the subject of a court suppression order.
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• Not Male or Female? Germans Can Now Choose ‘Diverse’
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:18:47 GMT-MELISSA EDDY
  German lawmakers approved a third option for legal documents in response to a landmark court case that said gender identity was a personal freedom.
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• Turkey Threatens Incursion Into Syria, Raising U.S. Concerns
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 23:39:18 GMT-CARLOTTA GALL
  An American solider, right, with Kurdish forces controlling the town of Manbij in northern Syria near the border with Turkey.
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• Kosovo Parliament Votes to Create an Army, Defying Serbia and NATO
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:29:52 GMT-BARBARA SURK
  The move was fiercely opposed by NATO and neighboring Serbia, which said it would threaten peace in the war-scarred Balkan region.
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• Argentina’s #MeToo Moment: Actress Shares Account of Assault
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 05:02:59 GMT-DANIEL POLITI and MEGAN SPECIA
  An Argentine actress accused an older male colleague of raping her when she was a minor, starting a big movement that has been likened to #MeToo.
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• An Emboldened China No Longer Cares What Its Critics Think
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:37:50 GMT-STEVEN LEE MYERS and CHRIS BUCKLEY
  Chinese police officers outside the Canadian embassy in Beijing.
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• How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 18:12:17 GMT-WALT BOGDANICH and MICHAEL FORSYTHE
  Monuments to Kiev’s founders burned during anti-government demonstrations in 2014. The protests led to the ouster of President Viktor F. Yanukovych, a McKinsey client.
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• 11 Die in India After Suspected Food Poisoning at Temple Ceremony
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:58:22 GMT-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
  Three people were arrested over the outbreak, which left more than 130 people hospitalized and was linked to an offering of vegetables and rice.
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• American Student Fatally Stabbed in Netherlands Had Feared Roommate
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:51:33 GMT-THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
  Tributes to Sarah Papenheim in Rotterdam.
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• Seven Civilians Killed as Indian Police Fire on Kashmir Protesters
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:46:41 GMT-REUTERS
  Villagers watched the funerals of a rebel fighter and a civilian killed by Indian security forces on Saturday in Pulwama, Kashmir.
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• Letter 85: The Fight for and Against Australian Secrecy
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:48:32 GMT-DAMIEN CAVE
  Ellen DeGeneres has a new special, “Relatable,” spoofing her image. Her wife, Portia de Rossi, says, “She’s just a bit more complicated than she appears” on daytime TV.
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• Canada Letter: Chrystia Freeland Talks Tariffs, Trade and China Tensions
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 23:25:26 GMT-PETER BAKER
  Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer for Huawei, is seen arriving at a parole office in Vancouver on Wednesday.
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• Michael Flynn, China Trade, Wisconsin: Your Friday Evening Briefing
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:55:39 GMT-JEAN RUTTER and MARCUS PAYADUE
• Officials Name Fourth Victim of Strasbourg Attack
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 22:33:49 GMT-REUTERS
  An Italian national, Antonio Megalizzi, died as a result of wounds he sustained in the shooting, officials said a day after the French police killed the man believed responsible.
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• The Canadians Detained in China: An Ex-Diplomat and a Daring ‘Fixer’
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:50:30 GMT-DAN BILEFSKY
  Michael Kovrig, left, a former diplomat, and Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur with high-level contacts in North Korea, have been detained in China.
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• Church Leaders Sue Princeton Over ‘Stolen’ Manuscripts
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:14:53 GMT-COLIN MOYNIHAN
  One of the manuscripts that the Eastern Orthodox Church is seeking to reclaim from Princeton University depicts St. John Climacus and his “Heavenly Ladder.”
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• Theresa May Finds No Joy in Brussels. Now What for Brexit?
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:30:04 GMT-STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE
  Theresa May’s foray to Brussels to seek the E.U.’s aid in getting a deal through her Parliament ended in frustration, leaving her with no clear way forward.
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• Russia Slowly Throttles a Ukrainian Port
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:41:15 GMT-ANDREW HIGGINS
  The city of Mariupol, Ukraine’s only major port on the Sea of Azov, is being slowly throttled by Russian interference in shipping traffic.
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• German Reporter Is Said to Face Espionage Charges in Venezuela
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 18:23:11 GMT-CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
  Billy Six, whose work is mostly published in two right-wing outlets, had been reporting on Venezuelans fleeing the country.
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• 37 Tombstones Desecrated at Jewish Cemetery in France
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:43:59 GMT-PALKO KARASZ
  The Jewish cemetery in Herrlisheim, north of Strasbourg, France, on Friday. The incident comes on the same week as a deadly attack at a Christmas market in Strasbourg.
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• New Zealand Rebukes Google for Airing Name of Suspect in Backpacker’s Killing
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 01:22:40 GMT-CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY
  A vigil held for Grace Millane, a murdered British backpacker, in Auckland, New Zealand, this week.
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• China’s Economy Slows Sharply, in Challenge for Xi Jinping
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:51:32 GMT-KEITH BRADSHER and AILIN TANG
  Passengers waiting for trains out of Dongguan, China, this week. Factories are sending many workers on Lunar New Year holiday more than two months before it starts.
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• 12-Year-Old in China Kills His Mother, Then Returns to School, Igniting an Outcry
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 12:52:59 GMT-AMY QIN
  The decision to allow the boy to return to school has raised questions about China’s policy of not holding children underage 14 responsible for crimes.
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• Strasbourg Suspect Was on a Watch List: What Are the ‘S Files’?
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:37:43 GMT-AURELIEN BREEDEN
  Floral tributes on Wednesday at the site of the attack in Strasbourg, France.
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• Apple, Eliza Dushku, Nancy Wilson: Your Friday Briefing
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 13:16:56 GMT-CHRIS STANFORD
  Yemenis waited for food at an aid distribution center in Bajil on Thursday. As a result of the Saudi-led war in the country, millions of Yemenis are at the risk of starvation, the United Nations has said.
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• Montreal Turns to Coyote Hazing After 19 People Are Bitten
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 14:45:36 GMT-CHRISTINA CARON
  A coyote in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, about 40 minutes outside Montreal. Coyote populations have expanded across much of North America over the past century.
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• After Yellow Vests Come Off, Activists in France Use Facebook to Protest and Plan
  Sat, 15 Dec 2018 04:57:06 GMT-ELIAN PELTIER and ADAM SATARIANO
  “Without Facebook there wouldn’t be such a movement, but the online activity is fueled by the energy in the streets,” said Thomas Mirallès, a real-estate agent in France who moderates a Facebook group for “Yellow Vest” protesters.
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• Just 2 of More Than 480 Yemenis Receive Refugee Status in South Korea
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 08:52:18 GMT-CHOE SANG-HUN
  A protest against offering refugee status to Yemeni asylum seekers in Jeju, South Korea, in June. The activists have vilified the Yemenis as potential Arab terrorists.
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• Acclaimed Photographer Arrested in Far West China, Wife Says
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 07:52:33 GMT-CHRIS BUCKLEY
  The photographer Lu Guang has been detained by the Chinese police after visiting the Xinjiang region of China, his wife said.
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• Yemen, Theresa May, Maria Butina: Your Friday Briefing
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:57:48 GMT-PENN BULLOCK
  A bridge that was destroyed in a Saudi airstrike in Najarah, Yemen, in October.
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• Who’s in the Middle of a Spat Between the U.S. and China? Canada
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:52:31 GMT-CATHERINE PORTER, DAN BILEFSKY and RICK GLADSTONE
  Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, arriving at a parole office with a security guard on Wednesday in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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• Chase for Talent Pushes Tech Giants Far Beyond West Coast
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:35:15 GMT-JACK NICAS and KAREN WEISE
  The current Apple campus in Austin, Tex. The company is planning a new 133-acre campus there that will initially have 5,000 workers.
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• Emissions, Yemen, Michael Cohen: Your Thursday Evening Briefing
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:12:21 GMT-JEAN RUTTER and MARCUS PAYADUE
• At War: Afghan War Casualty Report: Dec. 7-13
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:40:24 GMT-FAHIM ABED
  At least 152 pro-government forces and 11 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.
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• Strasbourg Shooting Suspect, Chérif Chekatt, Is Killed by French Police
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 03:35:02 GMT-ALISSA J. RUBIN, AURELIEN BREEDEN and ELIAN PELTIER
  The French special police forces in Strasbourg on Thursday.
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• Leader of U.N. AIDS Agency to Step Down After Damning Review
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 21:09:33 GMT-NICK CUMMING-BRUCE
  UNAIDS director Michel Sidibé said he will step down next year.
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• Turning to a New Brexit Battle, Theresa May Faces E.U. Resistance
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:06:42 GMT-STEPHEN CASTLE and STEVEN ERLANGER
  From left: Donald Tusk, the European Council president; Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands; and Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission. “At this point I can’t say whether we can give legal assurances,” Mr. Rutte said.
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• Pastor Charged With ‘Inciting Subversion’ as China Cracks Down on Churches
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 23:55:16 GMT-IAN JOHNSON
  Wang Yi, second from right, met President George W. Bush at the White House in 2006. Mr. Wang has grown increasingly critical of the Chinese authorities in the last year.
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• Senate Votes to End Aid for Yemen Fight Over Khashoggi Killing and Saudis’ War Aims
  Fri, 14 Dec 2018 01:50:42 GMT-JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and ERIC SCHMITT
  A home that was destroyed by an airstrike in Sana, Yemen. The nearly four-year conflict there has killed thousands of civilians and created famine in the country.
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• U.N-Brokered Hudaydah Truce Is Big Step in Yemen War
  Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:12:38 GMT-DECLAN WALSH
  Peace talks in Sweden ended on Thursday with a handshake between Yemen’s foreign minister, Khaled al-Yamani, left, and an envoy for the Houthi rebels, Mohammed Amdusalem.
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