World
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Your Monday Briefing
Good morning. We’re covering tensions between China and Taiwan, the upcoming retirement of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines and…
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Blinken Faces an Awkward Visit to Paris, His ‘Second Home’
WASHINGTON — The reception could hardly have been warmer when Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken appeared in France’s ornate…
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Small Plane Crashes Near Milan, Killing All on Board
A small plane crashed into an empty building in the outskirts of Milan on Sunday, and its six passengers and…
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He’s Australia’s Most Decorated Soldier. Did He Also Kill Helpless Afghans?
MELBOURNE, Australia — The elite Australian troops stormed into a mud-walled Afghan village in the late summer of 2012 on…
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At Least Two Dead, Four Wounded in Explosion Outside a Mosque in Kabul
An explosion outside a mosque in the center of Kabul killed at least two people on Sunday, a Taliban spokesman…
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Skateboards, Climate Change and Freedom: Germany’s Next-Generation Parliament
BERLIN — Emilia Fester is 23 and has yet to finish college. Max Lucks is 24 and calls himself a…
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They Helped Build Modern India but Are Shrinking as a Race
UDVADA, India — From the porch of his century-old home, Khurshed Dastoor has a front-row seat to a tragedy that…
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3,000 Yazidis Are Still Missing. Their Families Know Where Some of Them Are.
The voice messages sent by Abbas Hussein’s teenage son are heartbreaking in their matter-of-factness. The boy, a member of Iraq’s…
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Following the Shamrocks on a Canadian Road Trip
“It looks like the edge of the world out here,” my wife, Holly, mused, not disapprovingly. Our picnic blanket was…
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In a Surge of Military Flights, China Tests and Warns Taiwan
Record-breaking numbers of Chinese military planes probed the airspace near Taiwan over the weekend, prompting Taiwanese fighter jets to scramble…