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Angry young voters gathered in Manila on Tuesday to protest Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the former dictator, who clinched a landslide victory this week in one of the most divisive presidential elections in modern Philippine history.
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Judge Alexandre de Moraes, a member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, has used the court’s power to counter the antidemocratic stances of President Jair Bolsonaro and his supporters.
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Jair Bolsonaro has consistently claimed Brazil's electronic voting system is rife with fraud. Millions of his supporters have lost faith in their nation’s elections. Many claim they are prepared to take to the streets at his command.
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Breaking News: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan was wounded at a rally after at least one unidentified man opened fire on his convoy, in what aides have called a targeted attack.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine severed diplomatic ties with Russia as his country faced a wide-scale military attack. He spoke as one of his advisers announced that more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers had died and dozens were wounded.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, already looking unusually embattled amid an economic crisis and a surge in coronavirus cases, has been hit by a roiling corruption scandal that some say has a fin de siècle aura about it
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Israel said Palestinian militants had misfired projectiles, but an analysis of photos and videos of Friday’s strikes shows that some of the munitions were likely fired by Israeli forces.
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Imran Khan, the former prime minister of Pakistan, was wounded at a rally on Thursday after at least one unidentified man opened fire on his convoy, in what his aides called a targeted attack.
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Madrid has become the first major European city to reverse a ban on high-emissions vehicles and allow cars unfettered access to an area that was placed out of bounds for many less than a year ago
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Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the ousted dictator, edged closer to a triumph in the presidential election in the Philippines on Monday as early vote counting put him in a commanding lead over Leni Robredo, his closest rival.
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Francia Márquez, una mujer de 40 años que trabajó como empleada doméstica, ahora es la principal contendiente a la vicepresidencia de Colombia.
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Germany is scrambling to save energy and reduce its dependence on Russian supplies. But one thing the country won’t do, apparently, is put a speed limit on its fabled autobahns.
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Tens of thousands of outraged women in Poland converged in the capital to denounce the high-court's ruling banning abortions. The protests capped a week of the biggest demonstrations in Poland since the fall of communism in 1989.
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Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, has been charged with graft and money laundering. He has been under investigation on suspicion of running a kickback scheme that has embroiled several members of the family.
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Thai officials imposed an emergency decree in Bangkok, banning gatherings of five or more people. At least three protest leaders were arrested.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan described India's leader, Narenda Modi, as a Hindu supremacist who intends to eradicate Kashmir’s mostly Muslim population and populate the region with Hindus
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“This Leonardo DiCaprio is a cool guy, right? Giving money to torch the Amazon,” Jair Bolsonaro said without presenting any evidence
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Many Canadians are giddy at the prospect that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle could be moving to Canada, injecting some razzle dazzle to the sprawling, bone-chillingly cold country.
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King Juan Carlos came to Spain's throne with almost no money in 1975. Now the family's wealth is up to $2.3 billion http://t.co/nASet2vWcl.
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Accusations of foreign infiltration, police complaints and arrests, and blocking the internet — analysts and critics see a pattern to the Modi government's response to dissenting voices, fearing it pushes India down a dangerous path of intolerance
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Germany has no monument to Adolf Hitler. Italy has none to Benito Mussolini. But Spain has the Valley of the Fallen, a basilica holding the remains of Francisco Franco. Now, a revived plan to exhume the dictator's remains has touched off a furor.
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She was a rising star in Brazilian politics. Then she criticized police brutality. Then she was dead.
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“The most followed drag queen in the world is Brazilian. And yet still we have these problems here.” -Pabllo Vittar
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The Dutch do childhood differently. Children are taught not to depend too much on adults; adults are taught to allow children to solve their own problems. And so there is the custom of "droppings" -- leaving kids in the forest to find their way home alone.
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Pakistan’s courts have long been aligned with the country’s powerful military. But with Pakistan in the grip of a political crisis, the judiciary has openly contradicted the military and emerged as a political force in its own right, analysts say.
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Wally Conron, the creator of labradoodles, said it was his “life’s regret,” in an interview with ABC News in Australia. “The biggest majority,” he added, “are either crazy or have a hereditary problem.”
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“There’s a diss culture in hip-hop music,” Balendra Shah, or Balen, as he is universally known in Nepal, said in a recent interview. “I used to diss politicians.” Now, he is one, after scoring an unexpected landslide victory to become mayor of Kathmandu.
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Philippine lawmakers have shut down the country’s leading broadcast network, ABS-CBN, which President Rodrigo Duterte had accused of bias
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Doctors in Turkey, worn down by grueling hours, diminishing pay and growing violence from patients, are increasingly looking for work abroad. “It’s not a luxurious life that we want,” one doctor said. “We want the normal life that we deserve.”
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The death of two teenagers who were electrocuted while working at a McDonald's in Peru has opened a debate about whether the country is sacrificing safety for investment and jobs
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A Pakistani minister said that “Pakistan should not let Kashmir become another Palestine"
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Nigerian security forces opened fire at demonstrators against police brutality, escalating the crisis that has gripped the country
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Statistics show that France has received fewer immigrants than other rich nations in the past decade, and immigrants make up a smaller share of its overall population. But to hear its presidential candidates, immigration is out of control.
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Students and professors at Bogazici University in Istanbul are protesting the appointment of a new rector by President Erdogan as another attempt to assert control over key Turkish institutions.
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Should P.M. Modi follow a man who tweeted this? “One bitch dies a dog’s death all the puppies cry in the same tune.”
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Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, has tested positive for the coronavirus. He received his first dose of a Covid vaccine two days ago, and doctors believe he was infected beforehand.
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Videos show the destruction of Freedom Square in Kharkiv after an apparent rocket struck an administrative building earlier on Tuesday.
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Iván Duque, a populist conservative, won the presidency of Colombia on Sunday, capping a remarkable political rise. Many who voted for him did not even know his name a year ago. At 41, he will be one of the youngest presidents in the country’s history.
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The World Health Organization confirmed that Covid-19 is deadlier than the seasonal flu, but does not transmit as easily. Read the latest updates on the coronavirus outbreak here.
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A violent attack by a group of white men against two Black teenagers at a pool in South Africa has sparked widespread outrage and served as a stinging reminder of the lingering effects of apartheid.
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Russia recalled its ambassador to the U.S and unleashed a storm of derision aimed at President Biden after he agreed in a television interview that President Vladimir Putin was a killer.
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Burglars stole a fortune stashed in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s farmhouse in South Africa — allegedly millions of dollars. He didn’t tell the police or the public, and in a country rife with corruption, that raises questions.
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The white farmers received a combined 41 years in prison for the killing of a black teenager they had accused of stealing sunflowers
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Thousands of students are taking part in a youth revolt in Thailand against the powerful military’s influence in schools. “They want us to be like robots,” said one of the students.
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Puigdemont: "We are not criminals or coup plotters, just ordinary people who simply want to vote. We have nothing against the Spaniards.".
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“Kashmir is silent as a graveyard,” said Vrinda Grover, a human rights lawyer
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The Feminist Coalition wants equality for Nigerian women, and they are turning their focus to issues like sexual violence, women’s education, financial equality and representation in politics. Meet some of the women behind the group.
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A jet black sarcophagus, perfectly sealed despite being 2,000 years old, is a rare find in Egypt, where treasure hunters and professional tomb raiders have spoiled many ancient burial sites
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For the first time in his political career, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was tasting defeat in the center of Turkish political power and government, Ankara and even in his beloved Istanbul.
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Hurricane Irma became the first Category 5 hurricane to make landfall in Cuba since 1924
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“Spain is creating a situation where Europe’s judges rather than its politicians are being asked to solve Catalonia,” one expert warns
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Barcelona was the site of a colorful protest, as Catalan separatists tossed colored powder at the local police during a demonstration
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Election Day approaches for a beleaguered soccer power in Turkey. Will the members choose a new leader?
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“This is the police force we are proud of, the police force we want:" authorities promote Argentine policewoman who breast-fed a hungry, crying baby to soothe him after finding him abandoned.
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Behind the violence in India, Muslims and others point to a firebrand Hindu nationalist politician seeking a comeback
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Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to let people identify as neither male nor female on identity documents, a victory for nonbinary people
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German court rejects the Spanish court's charge of 'rebellion,' refuses to extradite Carles Puigdemont, citing a lack of evidence of violence in his campaign.
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After the Arema football club lost to Persebaya Surabaya, dozens of fans rushed the field at Kanjuruhan Stadium. Police fired tear gas, which caused a panic, according to the East Java Police chief, Inspector General Nico Afinta. He said 127 people died.
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Germany announced Wednesday that it would partially disband the country’s special forces, because it has become so infested with far-right extremists.
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Confusion, delirium, memory loss and other kinds of altered mental function afflicted nearly a third of hospitalized coronavirus patients in a large new study of Covid neurological symptoms. Many had trouble doing everyday tasks when they went home.
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Nicolás Petro, the son of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, was arrested on charges of money laundering and illicit enrichment, the attorney general’s office announced Saturday morning.
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Glenn Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal investigation” that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.
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Irrfan Khan, the Indian actor who brought a modern sensibility to recent hit movies and was featured in several Hollywood films, including “Life of Pi” and “The Namesake,” has died at 53
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law, known for his ties to the Trump White House, said he was leaving his job. Turkey’s tumbling lira is thought to be a major reason, but the U.S. election may be involved too.
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Russians dragged bronze statues from parks, lifted books from a scientific library, boxed up the 200-year-old bones of Grigory Potemkin, and even stole a raccoon from the zoo, leaving behind a trail of vacant cages, empty pedestals and smashed glass.
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Thousands of Indians are protesting a ban on a bull wrestling festival in Tamil Nadu.
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Dozens of Nigerian girls are freed 3 years after Boko Haram kidnapping
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Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon in Hong Kong, became the most high-profile target of the city's new national security law when he was arrested on Monday on suspicion of colluding with foreign powers
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Thousands of students are taking part in a youth revolt in Thailand against the powerful military’s influence in schools. “They want us to be like robots,” said one of the students.
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Pakistan's U.S. ambassador says his country might redeploy forces from the Afghanistan border to the Kashmir frontier. Such a shift could complicate U.S. talks with the Taliban on exiting Afghanistan after 18 years.
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Antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong ignored social distancing restrictions on Sunday as they poured onto the streets to oppose China's push to impose security laws seen as a threat to Hong Kong's freedoms.
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Colombia will allow 1.7 million Venezuelan migrants who have fled their country's staggering economic crisis to stay for 10 years. The decision was hailed by a U.N. official as “the most important humanitarian gesture” in the region in decades.
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Imam who masterminded terror attacks in Barcelona once provided information to Spanish secret service
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Nigerian security forces opened fire Tuesday night at demonstrators against police brutality, escalating the crisis that has gripped the country
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Accusations of foreign infiltration, police complaints and arrests, and blocking the internet — analysts and critics see a pattern to the Modi government's response to dissenting voices, fearing it pushes India down a dangerous path of intolerance
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China is reviving one of its favorite conspiracy theories to defend a crackdown in Hong Kong, saying — without evidence — that protesters are "extremists" working with foreign countries to try to overthrow the government
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Pakistan's Nawaz Sharif may be an ousted leader, but he left Islamabad like a conquering hero
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Foreign journalists have been barred from entering Kashmir. According to reports in the Indian media, security forces set up barricades, more businesses closed down, and public transportation has ground to a halt.
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Thousands of Indians are protesting a ban on a bull-wrestling festival in Tamil Nadu.
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Jean Kennedy Smith, a sister of the Kennedy clan who as the U.S.ambassador to Ireland in the 1990s played a role in ending the violence in Northern Ireland, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 92.
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Emmanuel Macron is inaugurated as France’s president
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Ghana announced its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease after two people, who were not related, died in June. There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments for the disease, but there was no indication that the virus had spread further.
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A Times investigation of video evidence, along with interviews with more than a dozen of the driver’s co-workers and family members in Kabul, raises serious doubts about the U.S. version of events.
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Brazil’s worsening coronavirus crisis belies the country’s track record for bold responses to health care challenges, including AIDS in the 1990s and the Zika outbreak in 2015, which made it a model in the developing world
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Ancient leftovers from Pompeii were found this month after archaeologists excavated a thermopolium, or snack bar. A soupy concoction of snails, sheep and fish appears to have been all the rage in 79 AD.
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Before Russia invaded Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky was often derided as a comic turned unlikely politician. But with the help of social media, he has become the leader Ukraine did not know it needed.
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Rocket launchers for air defense. Javelin antitank missiles. Stinger surface-to-air missiles. Pistols and ammunition. About 20 countries — most members of NATO and the European Union — are funneling arms into Ukraine to fight off the Russian invasion.
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For the American government, the protests are complicated, a potential policy dilemma, but also a potential point of leverage with Beijing, and a potential way to channel American values to the rest of the world.
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The first explosion was loud enough to make us stop. It seemed close and sounded like a rocket, so we quickly bailed out of the car as we are taught to do. If we hadn’t stopped, we might have driven straight into the blast, about 20 yards up the road.
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Protesters clashed with police in Paraguay’s capital, Asunción, late on Friday as anger over the government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis boiled onto the streets and forced the resignation of the country’s top health official.
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Pakistan’s leader, lamenting what he said was the world’s indifference to civilian suffering in Kashmir, condemned India’s military clampdown there and said he would appeal to the United Nations for help.
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Testimonies from more than 200 people who accuse senior Ugandan officials, including the president and his son, of torture, killings and other crimes against humanity have been submitted to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
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"We believe that the Russians have deliberately deployed it in order to pose a threat to NATO," says U.S. general
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Adopted at 8 by Americans, Phillip Clay was deported to South Korea after 29 years in U.S. He killed himself in May.
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Hong Kong's bitterly color-coded politics — blue or yellow — paint the dining scene
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A prized 400-year-old Japanese bonsai tree was cared for with all of the precision needed for a priceless piece of art. Then it was stolen.
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Reza Zarrab suçunu kabul etti ve Hakan Atilla'ya karşı tanıklık yapacak
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The daughter of the former Philippines dictator says older Filipinos should focus on their father's successes, instead of his brutality
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“When you find this letter, I might have been arrested or have died.” Watch our video about the goodbye letters Hong Kong protesters carry with them to the front lines.
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“This is people who are fed up,” said one protester in Belgrade who was part of a demonstration against Serbia’s government.
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