World
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Suspect in Fire at South African Parliament to Appear in Court
CAPE TOWN — A day after a fire ripped through South Africa’s Houses of Parliament, books and bookshelves were still…
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Pressure Mounts on Tunisia’s President to Salvage the Economy
TUNIS — During the pre-dinner rush near Tunis’s port one recent evening, Haji Mourad, 45, the proprietor of a small…
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How Beijing Has Muted Hong Kong’s Independent Media
HONG KONG — Citizen News, a small online news site in Hong Kong known for its in-depth coverage of courts…
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Online ‘Auction’ Is Latest Attack on Muslim Women in India
Hiba Bég, a graduate student in the United States, was visiting the grave of her grandmother in New Delhi over…
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President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil Is Hospitalized, Local Reports Say
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil was hospitalized on Monday in São Paulo to undergo treatment for a possible intestinal obstruction…
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Celebrating the ‘Great Night of Shiva’ in Kathmandu
It was the night before a new moon, and a rotating palette of color, reflecting off the buildings, floated like…
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How the E.U. Allowed Hungary to Become an Illiberal Model
BRUSSELS — After long indulging him, leaders in the European Union now widely consider one of their own, Prime Minister…
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Richard Leakey, Kenyan Fossil Hunter and Conservationist, Dies at 77
Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist and fossil hunter whose discoveries of ancient human skulls and skeletons helped cement Africa’s ...
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China Evergrande Halts Its Shares in Hong Kong
Trading in the shares of the indebted property developer China Evergrande Group were suspended on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange…
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Sudan’s Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, Resigns
NAIROBI, Kenya — Sudan’s prime minister, who was ousted in a military coup but reinstated over a month ago,said Sunday…