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Mar 23, 2019
American commanders see each battlefield win as a means of strengthening the allied position in peace negotiations. The escalation leads to greater risks to troops, especially in house-to-house raids occurring across the country.
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Mar 23, 2019
The arrest of a senior executive of networking-gear maker Huawei Technologies Co. intensifies the confrontation in the already divisive China-U.S. negotiations on trade, striking at Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitions to make the country a tech superpower.?
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Mar 23, 2019
Bank of Canada Gov. Stephen Poloz said the benchmark interest rate will need to move upward but the pace of future increases "will remain decidedly data dependent" given global risks and lower energy prices.
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Mar 23, 2019
A senior Catholic official convicted of concealing child sex abuse has successfully appealed his case and will walk free, in a blow to the global campaign alleging pedophilia coverups in the church.
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Mar 23, 2019
The three main contenders to succeed Angela Merkel as chairwoman of Germany's largest political party have called for a review of a gas pipeline between Germany and Russia, potentially putting the party at odds with the chancellor's government.
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Mar 23, 2019
A crackdown on LGBT rights in Tanzania has forced people into hiding and sparked an international backlash.
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Mar 23, 2019
North Korea is expanding military facilities thought to house long-range missiles that can hit the U.S., according to a think-tank report that revives doubts about the regime's sincerity in disarmament negotiations.
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Mar 23, 2019
OPEC members on agreed to production curbs but will wait to hear from Russia before making a final decision on the exact amount the cartel would cut to address falling oil prices.
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Mar 23, 2019
Pope Francis will visit Abu Dhabi in early February, continuing the outreach to the Muslim world that has been a signature theme of his pontificate.
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Mar 23, 2019
Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the prospect of an arms race with the U.S. in response to Washington's announcement that it could withdraw from a nuclear pact.
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Mar 23, 2019
Yemen's government and Houthi rebels begin U.S.-backed talks Thursday to end a nearly four-year war that has left thousands dead and pushed millions to the brink of starvation.
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Mar 23, 2019
Two Marines were rescued, and a joint Japanese-U.S. search-and-rescue operation continued for the other five Marines.
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Mar 04, 2019
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó staged a dramatic return to Venezuela despite government threats to arrest him, energizing the country's opposition and raising the stakes in the political showdown with President Nicolás Maduro's government.
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Mar 04, 2019
A Canadian cabinet minister, Jane Philpott, resigned, saying she has lost confidence in the ruling Liberal Party over allegations it tried to interfere in a criminal prosecution of a global engineering and construction firm.
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Mar 04, 2019
China accused two detained Canadians of working together to steal Chinese state secrets, moving ahead with a politically charged investigation seen as retribution for Canada's arrest of a senior Huawei executive.
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Mar 04, 2019
North Korea is still using a uranium-enrichment facility at the heart of last week's summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the United Nations atomic agency said.
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Mar 04, 2019
Vale, the owner of a mine-waste dam that collapsed this year, killing more than 180 people, dismissed an auditor that refused to certify the dam as safe in September, according to an initial probe by police and prosecutors.
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Mar 04, 2019
President Vladimir Putin formally ordered a suspension of Russia's obligations under a Cold War-era nuclear treaty with the U.S., heightening the threat of a new arms race.
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Mar 03, 2019
China and the U.S. are in the final stage of completing a trade deal, with Beijing offering to lower tariffs and other restrictions on American farm, chemical, auto and other products and Washington considering removing most, if not all, sanctions levied against Chinese products since last year.
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Mar 03, 2019
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said he plans to return to Venezuela on Monday in a move that directly confronts President Nicolás Maduro's authority and could end with Mr. Guaidó in jail.
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Mar 03, 2019
Vale Chief Executive Fabio Schvartsman and other top executives of the Brazilian mining giant stepped down following pressure from authorities in the first sign investigators are zeroing in on the company's leadership after the deadly collapse of one of its dams.
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Mar 03, 2019
Meng Wanzhou claims her legal rights were violated when she was detained at Vancouver International Airport in December following an extradition arrest request from the U.S.
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Mar 03, 2019
President Xi Jinping, battling a persistent downturn in China's economy, is trying to gird his rule by demanding absolute loyalty from the Communist Party in an effort to stifle simmering dissent.
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Mar 02, 2019
A U.S. team working ahead of the nuclear talks in Hanoi found North Korea wasn't willing to budge, expecting far more than they were prepared to give.
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Mar 02, 2019
Italian politicians have a long record of granting amnesties allowing homes in earthquake-hit areas to be rebuilt. The upstart government was supposed to change that, but it has bowed to local pressure—a sign of how Italian political habits die hard.
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Mar 02, 2019
U.S.-backed forces have resumed their assault to capture Islamic State's last patch of territory in eastern Syria, ending a truce that allowed for an evacuation before an intense final battle.
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Mar 02, 2019
Canada said the U.S. had presented enough evidence to proceed with the extradition hearing for a Huawei Technologies top executive, clearing the way for a case at the center of tensions between the U.S., China and Canada.
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Mar 01, 2019
Pakistan released a captured Indian fighter pilot on Friday, aiming to end a cycle of retaliatory attacks that brought the nuclear-armed foes close to war and could set a precedent for future clashes.
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Mar 01, 2019
Saudi authorities said they are preparing to place 18 detained women's rights activists on trial in spite of months of international pressure to release them.
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Mar 01, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is betting his political survival on a dedicated base of conservative voters ignoring potential bribery charges that could undo his bid for a fifth term.
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Mar 01, 2019
After a high-profile summit with President Trump fell apart, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spent Friday bonding with his communist hosts in Vietnam as his country's state media played down the collapse of negotiations.
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Mar 01, 2019
Brazilian mining giant Vale could face a close to $7 billion fine if convicted of colluding with safety auditors to hide unsafe conditions at the dam that collapsed and killed more than 180 people near Brumadinho.
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Mar 01, 2019
The U.S. has designated Hamza bin Laden as a terrorist.
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Feb 28, 2019
A summit that might have led to North Korea's first tangible disarmament steps faltered because Pyongyang wouldn't freeze all of its weapons programs and sought billions of dollars in sanctions relief, a senior State Department official said.
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Feb 28, 2019
Israel's attorney general said he would charge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, a move that could imperil the leader's April election bid.
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Feb 28, 2019
Diplomatic efforts to resolve the political crisis in Venezuela failed on Thursday as the U.S. and Russia clashed at the U.N. Security Council over two differing views of sovereignty, intervention and aid.
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Feb 28, 2019
Two Saudi sisters face deportation from Hong Kong after what they describe as an escape from their ultraconservative and abusive family, among the latest women to flee the Middle Eastern kingdom seeking a freer life abroad.
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Feb 28, 2019
The president's son-in-law wrapped up a Middle East tour to raise support for an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, a swing that included his first meeting with the Saudi crown prince since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Feb 28, 2019
Pakistan said it would soon release an Indian pilot captured after his jet fighter was shot down near the border, a gesture that appeared to dial back confrontations between the nuclear-armed states.
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Feb 28, 2019
President Trump started a second day of high-stakes talks with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by playing down the need for a rapid breakthrough on Pyongyang's nuclear program.
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Feb 27, 2019
Pakistan and India clashed over their disputed border, with each side saying it had downed a warplane belonging to the other, in a sharp escalation of hostilities.
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Feb 27, 2019
A firestorm surrounding Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau became more damaging as his ex-justice minister accused his top aides of repeatedly pressuring her to drop the prosecution of a global engineering and construction firm.
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Feb 27, 2019
Venezuela's opposition, stung by recent setbacks, is grappling for its next move to try to unseat President Nicolás Maduro. But first, its leader Juan Guaidó has to safely get back into Venezuela, where the government is threatening to jail him.
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Feb 27, 2019
In the strongest sign yet that an accord is near, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the U.S. was abandoning for now its threat to raise tariffs to 25% on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
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Feb 27, 2019
President Trump entered office determined to stop what he considered unfair practices by China. But he may now be tempted to settle, like his predecessors, for less-than-ironclad commitments, Greg Ip writes.
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Feb 26, 2019
When President Trump sits down this week for a second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, he will face a young dictator who has grown in outward confidence as a negotiator since their last meeting.
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Feb 26, 2019
Indian warplanes bombed targets inside Pakistan for the first time since the now nuclear-armed rivals were at war in 1971, hitting what Indian officials described as a terrorist training camp.
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Feb 26, 2019
Prime Minister Theresa May will allow parliament to vote on delaying the U.K.'s exit from the EU if lawmakers reject her divorce agreement, greatly reducing the possibility of an exit without a deal.
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Feb 26, 2019
The potential collapse of President Nicolás Maduro's regime poses a threat to Cuba, which relies on Caracas for about 28% of the island's oil needs.
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Feb 26, 2019
The European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that halal meat can't be labeled organic, a decision that contrasts with U.S. regulations and expands the body of EU case law restricting certain Muslim practices.
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Feb 26, 2019
Iran's president scrambled to avert a political crisis from the resignation of his top diplomat, praising him on live TV and dispatching senior officials to urge him not to quit.
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Feb 26, 2019
The most senior Vatican official to ever stand trial on child sex-abuse charges was found guilty of assaulting two choirboys at a church in his former diocese.
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Feb 25, 2019
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on allies of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and urged regional governments to isolate his regime, but played down the prospects for military intervention.
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Feb 25, 2019
Iran's top diplomat, an architect of the landmark nuclear deal, resigned on Monday, hobbling the relatively moderate government of Hassan Rouhani and its chances of keeping the pact alive.
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Feb 25, 2019
Indicators show day-to-day commerce in the country has remained resilient, rice prices are stable and gasoline prices have eased. There are even signs of growing entrepreneurialism in markets that carry domestically made goods.
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Feb 25, 2019
The U.K.'s main opposition Labour Party said it would support holding a second Brexit referendum, a policy shift that breathes some life into the prospect of Britons voting again on whether the U.K. should leave the EU.
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Feb 25, 2019
World trade fell at the end of last year as imports to and exports from China plummeted, a sign that higher tariffs and the threat of more to come are cooling global economic growth.
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Feb 25, 2019
A top Russian state television broadcaster held out the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the U.S., boasting that the Kremlin could retaliate with strikes on the Pentagon and Camp David.
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Feb 25, 2019
For months, signs of danger raised worries among inspectors about the safety of a giant mine-dam perched over a town in Brazil. And yet the safety firm, worried about losing business, blessed the structure. Prosecutors are now looking into collusion between Vale and the contract inspector.
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Feb 24, 2019
At President Trump and Kim Jong Un's second summit in Hanoi, U.S. goals include getting North Korea to agree to freeze weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, and settling on a definition of denuclearization.
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Feb 24, 2019
Venezuela's opposition called for the first time on the international community to consider the use of military force against President Nicolás Maduro, escalating a standoff after a weekend showdown over humanitarian aid ended in violence.
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Feb 24, 2019
Pope Francis strongly condemned sexual abuse but offered no specific solutions, disappointing clergy and laypeople who had hoped for a breakthrough at an unprecedented global summit to address the crisis in the Catholic Church.
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Feb 24, 2019
The continued presence of thousands of civilians, including families of Islamic State fighters, is slowing a push by U.S.-backed forces to oust the extremist group from the last patch of territory it holds in Syria.
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Feb 24, 2019
Saudi Arabia named a princess as its new ambassador to the U.S., an envoy who faces the challenge of navigating strained relations between the two allies amid the fallout over the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Feb 23, 2019
A high-stakes effort to deliver aid into Venezuela despite a military blockade descended into violence Saturday, with hundreds injured and more than 60 National Guard forces defecting to Colombia.
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Feb 23, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang by train for Hanoi, North Korean state media reported, in its first official acknowledgment of the closely watched two-day summit meeting with President Trump.
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Feb 23, 2019
The Trump administration decision to keep hundreds of U.S. troops based in Syria was driven by allies who said they wouldn't stay behind to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State without an American presence, a senior U.S. defense official said.
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Feb 23, 2019
The protest movement is bitterly divided over whether to coalesce into a formal organization or keep its antiestablishment roots, as it presses President Macron for change
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Feb 23, 2019
After a false start and an acrimonious campaign, Nigerians headed to the polls to vote in what is expected to be Africa's largest-ever election, and will determine who governs the continent's top economy and oil producer.
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Feb 22, 2019
The U.S. military began to revamp its strategy in Syria, after President Trump decided to shift course and keep several hundred American troops in the country instead of pulling them all out after Islamic State has been defeated.
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Feb 22, 2019
Venezuelan soldiers fired on protesters, and the country's U.S.-backed opposition leader defied President Nicolás Maduro by crossing into Colombia, raising tensions ahead of an expected showdown Saturday over the delivery of tons of humanitarian aid.
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Feb 22, 2019
President Trump, citing progress in U.S.-China trade talks, said he is looking at extending a deadline to raise tariffs and hoping to meet next month with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to complete a broad trade agreement.
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Feb 22, 2019
The forgiveness granted to Polish clergy convicted of sex offenses illustrates splits in the Catholic Church over how to handle cases of sexual abuse by priests.
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Feb 22, 2019
There is a new wave of interest in the father of modern Turkey and its secular republic, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is looking to benefit from the new gust of affection for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk without being eclipsed by his legacy.
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Feb 22, 2019
Saudi Arabia signed a wide-ranging set of agreements on energy and trade with China, as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman accelerated efforts to court an economic power that offers a potential counterweight to the U.S.
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Feb 22, 2019
The U.S. will maintain a small peacekeeping force of about 200 troops in Syria despite President Trump's earlier decision to remove all American troops, the White House said.
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Feb 21, 2019
A fire swept through a mixed residential and commercial area of Dhaka, leaving dozens dead and renewing concerns over industrial safety in one of the world's most densely populated cities.
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Feb 21, 2019
A delay in Nigeria's presidential election, now set for Saturday, has further complicated a fractious contest, bringing new fraud accusations and disruptions that have cost Africa's largest economy an estimated $2 billion.
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Feb 21, 2019
Hugo Carvajal, Venezuela's former military-intelligence chief, urged authorities to allow humanitarian aid into the country and pledged support for opposition leader Juan Guaidó.
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Feb 21, 2019
The U.S.-China trade conflict has nearly wiped out American soy exports to the bean's biggest market, China, giving Russian farmers a chance to extend their already soaring exports to their neighbor.
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Feb 21, 2019
Pope Francis denounced a "plague of sexual abuses perpetrated by men of the church to the harm of minors," and called on Catholic bishops to "listen to the cry of the little ones who plead for justice," as he opened a summit on preventing clerical sex abuse.
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Feb 20, 2019
As pressure in India builds on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond to the deadliest terrorist attack on security forces in a generation, the range of options available to him appears limited.
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Feb 20, 2019
President Vladimir Putin said Russia would target the U.S. with new advanced weapons if Washington deploys intermediate-range missiles in Europe, a threat that appeared aimed at holding the line but leaving open the possibility of negotiations after the breakdown of a nuclear treaty.
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Feb 20, 2019
Several hundred of the last civilians trapped by Islamic State in the militant group's remaining sliver of territory left, which suggested the extremist group was near a surrender to U.S.-backed Kurdish forces.
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Feb 20, 2019
U.S. pressure on Huawei Technologies is echoing in the Philippines, where lawmakers worry that a $400 million video surveillance project using the Chinese company's gear poses national security risks.
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Feb 20, 2019
Zimbabwe, which has been using the U.S. dollar for the past decade, effectively introduced its own currency again, admitting that dollars stored in local bank accounts are worth only a fraction of their stated value.
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Feb 20, 2019
Three lawmakers quit British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party over Brexit, a move that further adds to the precariousness of her grip on power and underlines how the decision to leave the European Union is reshaping British politics.
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Feb 20, 2019
Dozens of Jewish graves in eastern France were vandalized amid a recent rise in anti-Semitic acts and days after yellow-vest protesters were filmed accosting a prominent Jewish academic.
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Feb 19, 2019
President Trump gave his firmest indication yet that the U.S. may not increase tariffs on Chinese goods on March 1, as scheduled, despite statements by his top trade official that the U.S. should stick to a firm deadline.
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Feb 19, 2019
Germany is leaning toward letting the Chinese tech giant participate in building its high-speed internet infrastructure despite U.S. warnings.
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Feb 19, 2019
Egyptian authorities denied entry to New York Times journalist David Kirkpatrick, an unexplained move amid a government clampdown on the media.
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Feb 19, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has exiled, imprisoned or executed some 50 to 70 people and seized assets as he eliminates critics of his outreach to the U.S. and the South and targets the moneyed elite, says a report.
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Feb 19, 2019
Italy's 5 Star Movement rose from a grass-roots campaign against political corruption to an election-winning party. The realities of life in government since last summer, however, are putting it under growing strain.
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Feb 18, 2019
As trade negotiations with China resume, the Trump administration is racing to strike a deal that will result in long-term reforms—and prove that tariffs are an effective battering ram to open markets around the world.
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Feb 18, 2019
A suicide bombing in the heart of Egypt's capital killed two police officers late Monday, the third attack in four days on the country's security forces, as they carry out a yearslong campaign against extremist groups.
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Feb 18, 2019
The U.S. is considering opening a liaison office in North Korea, in what would be another potential step toward normalizing relations while the two sides negotiate to curtail Pyongyang's nuclear and missile forces, according to a Trump administration official.
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Feb 18, 2019
The Kurdish commander leading the fight against Islamic State in Syria wants the U.S. to reconsider its decision to withdraw and instead leave a small contingent of forces in the country.
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Feb 18, 2019
Two of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's most formidable opponents are in talks to form a united front, and face a deadline this week to declare whether they will join their camps to try to unseat him.
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Feb 18, 2019
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who faces growing pressure to step down, plans to organize a rival musical performance on the Colombian border this week in response to a Live Aid-style concert staged by Richard Branson.
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Feb 17, 2019
Militants hiding among civilians have slowed an advance.
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