World
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Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza Kill Senior Figure in Palestinian Militant Group
TEL AVIV — Israel carried out a number of airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Friday, and the Palestinian militant…
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Iran Targets Its Baha’i Community With Arrests and Home Demolitions
Iran has begun a sweeping crackdown on its Baha’i community, a long-persecuted religious minority, arresting dozens of people and destroying…
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Fire at Thailand Nightclub Kills at Least 13
BANGKOK — A fire broke out in a crowded music pub in Thailand’s eastern Chonburi Province early Friday morning and…
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Sri Lankan Family Wins a Long Battle to Stay in Australia
MELBOURNE, Australia — Four years ago, immigration officers arrived at dawn to rip a Sri Lankan family away from the…
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Facing Energy Crisis, Germans, Warily, Give Nuclear a Second Look
LANDSHUT, Germany — When Angela Merkel pulled the plug on nuclear power after the Fukushima meltdown, she set Germany on…
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U.S. Seeks to Reassure Asian Allies as China’s Military Grows Bolder
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Just a few hours after five Chinese missiles blasted into Japanese waters near Taiwan, the foreign…
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As Missiles Fall, Generations Split on Taiwan’s Relationship With China
KINMEN COUNTY, Taiwan — The San Jiao Fort cafe on Kinmen Island may well be the best place in Taiwan…
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Welcome to Soccer’s Strangest Season
Gian Piero Ventrone surveyed his handiwork with just the hint of a smile. A few minutes earlier, Ventrone, Tottenham Hotspur’s…
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‘Captain Condom’ Turned the Tide in Thailand’s War on AIDS and Overpopulation
BANGKOK — Mechai Viravaidya twice saw Thailand in desperate trouble — first from a ruinous population explosion and then from…
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Putin and Erdogan, both partners and foes, are set to talk in Sochi, Russia.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, plan to meet on Friday in the…