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Dec 11, 2025
France is considering adopting a five-day school week. It may seem like the French are late to the party, but it actually highlights how their academic priorities differ from those of the U.S. - and how they are shifting now.
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Dec 11, 2025
The United States seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, upping pressure on Nicolás Maduro's ouster. But Venezuelans are more focused on their day to day.
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Dec 10, 2025
Russia's Vladimir Putin has vowed to take all of the mostly occupied Donetsk region either through negotiation or militarily. Even as Ukraine resists ceding territory, how is the city of Sloviansk maintaining morale in the face of a forbidding future?
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Dec 10, 2025
With Europe worried over the threat from Russia, Germany is feeling pressure to lead the way on European defense. Whether Germans themselves are ready to pick up arms is another matter.
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Dec 09, 2025
In Israeli descriptions of settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, use of the term "Jewish terrorism" has been rising. A plurality of Israelis say the attackers have been handled too leniently. But the settlers have strong allies in the government.
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Dec 09, 2025
In one of the darkest corners of the world, a group of "astro-ambassadors" are making a living off the night sky - and creating a bridge between science and tradition.
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Dec 09, 2025
President Trump's recent dehumanizing remarks about Somali Americans play to stereotypes and obscure a complex history.
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Dec 09, 2025
The Kindness Project's curated shop provides each new foster child with a week's wardrobe and other items.
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Dec 08, 2025
One year after rebel forces overthrew a dictatorship and ended a long and costly civil war, Syria still faces many challenges. But hopes for the future, and gratitude for newfound freedoms, fueled a day of joyful celebrations.
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Dec 08, 2025
Donald Trump's new national security strategy turns history on its head, dismissing a Europe it says faces "civilizational erasure" and praising far-right parties that Moscow supports.
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Dec 07, 2025
Israel and Hamas could begin the next phase of the ceasefire as soon as the end of the month, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a news conference.
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Dec 07, 2025
The government in Beirut has committed itself to disarming Hezbollah and exercising a monopoly over the use of force in Lebanon. But political and economic reforms that curtail the power of corrupt, sectarian elites are no less vital to its success.
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Dec 06, 2025
As U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators continue talks aimed at ending the war, Russia conducted a large drone and missile attack.
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Dec 05, 2025
An industrious leader is typically considered a positive. But in Japan - a country that has its own word for "death from overworking" - the new prime minister's habits are reigniting a debate: How much work is too much?
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Dec 04, 2025
A retro video game has become an unlikely source of national pride in Pakistan, where a thriving arcade culture encourages collaboration - and produces some of the strongest Tekken players in the world as a result.
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Dec 04, 2025
As U.S. and Russian negotiators met, and European leaders scrambled to make a peace deal palatable to Kyiv, Ukrainians were wary bystanders to talks over their future. But their view is firm: Yes to compromise, No to capitulation.
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Dec 04, 2025
Donald Trump shares with Henry Kissinger a predilection for shuttle diplomacy to resolve crises. But he does not display Kissinger's patience.
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Dec 03, 2025
It may look like business as usual when Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi meet in Delhi this week, but the Russian and Indian leaders are under pressure to show they won't be swayed by Donald Trump.
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Dec 03, 2025
In the tight-knit Senegalese town of Fadiouth, religious differences are not only tolerated, but embraced. Now, that unity is being tested.
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Dec 02, 2025
A year after an Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, the Lebanese people are still caught in the middle. The ceasefire requires Hezbollah to disarm and Israel to withdraw. Neither has happened, even as Beirut works to fulfill its part of the bargain.
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Dec 01, 2025
President Donald Trump has vowed to attack drug trafficking across Latin America. But in pardoning a convicted trafficker from Honduras, he has swayed politics and unsettled policy.
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Dec 01, 2025
President Donald Trump has vowed to attack drug trafficking across Latin America. But in promising to pardon a convicted trafficker from Honduras, he has swayed politics and unsettled policy.
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Dec 01, 2025
The U.S. government, seeking to boost its critical minerals supply, brokered a peace deal between militias in Congo. But new violence has broken out.
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Dec 01, 2025
Science Fuse, a social enterprise, primarily teaches children in impoverished areas, including the Machar Colony slum area in Karachi.
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Dec 01, 2025
Violence at schools has been a growing problem in Europe. For teachers and officials, the solution is to restrict youth's access to social media.
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Nov 30, 2025
President Donald Trump's top officials are meeting with Ukrainian negotiators in Florida. Mr. Trump has been trying to broker an end to the war in Ukraine.
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Nov 29, 2025
Hong Kong officials are investigating why construction materials, netting, and bamboo scaffolding on the exterior of the buildings caught fire.
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Nov 26, 2025
What does it mean when Xi Jinping - China's strongman leader - praises Hu Yaobang, the liberal reformer whose sudden death sparked the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests? Our reporter asks sinologists who study Chinese leaders.
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Nov 26, 2025
Washington's alliance with its Western allies is under strain from President Trump's ambiguity over who is responsible for the war in Ukraine.
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Nov 25, 2025
As the head of Pakistan's military broadens his authority, the threat of dictatorship looms. Indeed, the country's history has seen a string of army takeovers. Why is it so hard to break the cycle?
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Nov 25, 2025
A series of negotiations involving Russia, Ukraine, the US, and European powers have brought Russia and Ukraine closer, but peace remains elusive.
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Nov 25, 2025
In addition to providing food, the sites have created opportunities for locals across the generational spectrum to interact with one another.
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Nov 24, 2025
President Trump's Gaza peace plan requires Hamas to lay down its arms. The militant Islamic group is refusing to do so. Can the peace process survive?
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Nov 24, 2025
While Europe has made progress on ending its dependence on Russian energy, the bloc is still impeded by gas needs and foot-dragging member states.
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Nov 24, 2025
From Nepal to Peru and from Madagascar to Morocco, Generation Z-led protests have rocked governments. The revolution has brushstrokes of youth, from the use of a gaming platform to organize it to a ubiquitous symbol - a Jolly Roger flag. Perhaps most extraordinary about the Gen Z protests: their interconnection. A global generation has spawned a global movement.
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Nov 22, 2025
U.S. comments about taking out Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro are kicking up complicated memories of a decades-old, U.S.-backed coup in Chile.
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Nov 21, 2025
Tens of thousands fled the Sudanese city of El Fasher after it fell to a paramilitary group, leaving many families hungry and separated.
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Nov 20, 2025
Donald Trump is moving to reshuffle U.S. Middle East alliances, giving pride of place to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, not Israel.
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Nov 20, 2025
The winds of reunification are blowing more strongly in Northern Ireland. Traditionally unionist Protestants are starting to look toward the republic, too.
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Nov 20, 2025
The cause of a unified Ireland has more political oomph in the Irish Republic than its had in years. But how realistic is reunification practically?
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Nov 19, 2025
The Trump administration helped stem fighting between Thailand and Cambodia, in part by making trade negotiations contingent on peace. Now the ceasefire is falling apart - and possibly pushing Bangkok closer to China.
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Nov 19, 2025
The U.S. war on drugs has always entailed a degree of pressure. The Trump administration's strikes on suspected drug-smuggling boats charts a new course of noncooperation.
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Nov 19, 2025
Hundreds of athletes from lower-income families in the Washington area are becoming part of competitive, no-fee teams, thanks to Open Goal Project.
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Nov 19, 2025
Hundreds of athletes from lower-income families in the Washington area are becoming part of competitive, no-fee teams, thanks to Open Goal Project.
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Nov 18, 2025
Despite Israel's war in Gaza, its economy grew, due mostly to its strong tech sector. But calls to boycott Israel over the conduct of the war appear to have hit some exports. Will that rage subside if the ceasefire holds?
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Nov 18, 2025
Views on whether girls should marry before age 18 have radically shifted in Bolivia. But the cultural norms and attitudes that drive the practice remain.
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Nov 18, 2025
Views on whether girls should marry before age 18 have radically shifted in Bolivia. But the cultural norms and attitudes that drive the practice remain.
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Nov 17, 2025
Japan and China are facing off in an angry spat over the status of Taiwan - part of China for Beijing, an independent and friendly state for Tokyo.
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Nov 17, 2025
Gazan music teacher Ahmed Abu Amsha uses melodies both to help his students forget the war around them, and to memorialize the conflict.
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Nov 16, 2025
The presence of the USS Gerald R. Ford on Sunday raises questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal next.
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Nov 15, 2025
Agents were seen making arrests on Saturday. Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin says the move aims to ensure public safety, while local officials say they cause unnecessary fear.
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Nov 14, 2025
The ouster last year of President Bashar al-Assad raised hopes of a diplomatic reset with Israel, whom many on Syria's Golan Heights saw as a pragmatic neighbor. Instead, they've faced mysterious Israeli detentions and expanded occupation.
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Nov 14, 2025
Worries about crime, blamed on immigrants, are likely to put a far-right candidate ahead of his rivals in Chile's presidential elections Sunday.
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Nov 13, 2025
While President Trump decries climate change as a "con," China's Xi Jinping is going all-in on green tech. The latter approach is providing some hope as the COP30 climate conference gathers in Brazil.
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Nov 13, 2025
Former soccer player Hidaa Ahmad Ghaddar is fighting gang violence in her hometown, Kano, Nigeria, by getting boys off the streets and onto the pitch.
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Nov 12, 2025
Russia has been conspicuously bringing new types of missiles, torpedoes, and submarines online. Experts say the fanfare is all about Donald Trump's "Golden Dome."
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Nov 12, 2025
Ukraine has kept Russia at bay through more than 3 1/2 years of war. But stepped-up Russian strikes against cities and relentless advances in battle are proving a challenge for exhausted civilians and soldiers alike.
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Nov 12, 2025
Since mid-2024, urban young people across India have been connecting tribal Bakarwal kids to training in digital animation, coding, and web design.
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Nov 10, 2025
Donald Trump frames militant insurgencies in Nigeria as targeted campaigns against the country's Christians. The true situation is more complex.
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Nov 09, 2025
When noncitizen veterans make bad choices after their time in the military, they serve prison sentences and then face deportation. Is that fair?
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Nov 07, 2025
As Hamas maneuvers in advance of post-war governance arrangements in Gaza, the Islamist group is seeking common ground with former rivals.
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Nov 07, 2025
The Indianapolis Colts play the Atlanta Falcons Sunday in Berlin. Fans have flown in from as far away as Brazil, showing how big U.S. football is now.
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Nov 07, 2025
Thirty years after it scrapped racial segregation, South Africa seeks to recover a founding story that inspired ideas of liberation and freedom.
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Nov 06, 2025
"The strong do as they can, and the weak suffer what they must." Ancient Athens' foreign policy dictum finds an echo in President Trump's behavior.
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Nov 05, 2025
Deep in rural China, a Monitor writer learns to cook authentic handmade noodles, gaining a new understanding of country life in the process.
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Nov 05, 2025
The fall of El Fasher in western Sudan to a paramilitary force underscores the difficulties of ending the country's devastating civil war.
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Nov 05, 2025
Community radio stations in northern Mali are threatened by both jihadis and government censorship. But local journalists fight to keep them alive.
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Nov 04, 2025
Ukraine's prewar "Defending Ukraine" course featured marching and wooden guns. The new curriculum includes hands-on work with first aid, radios, and drones.
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Nov 03, 2025
Israel has long prided itself on "going it alone" in a region largely hostile to its existence. But as nations seek an international force to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire, Israelis are grappling with the notion of trusting their security to others.
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Nov 03, 2025
Rising sea levels are eroding Senegal's shorelines, leaving communities and the country's government scrambling to cope with the implications.
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Nov 03, 2025
Sara Almabruk is strategizing how to save Mediterranean angel sharks, "custodians of the seafloor" whose robust presence can indicate a healthy ecosystem.
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Oct 31, 2025
For many years, women's advocates in France have been frustrated by the absence of consideration of consent within the country's rape and sexual assault laws. That's finally changed, thanks in large part to Gisèle Pelicot.
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Oct 31, 2025
COP30 kicks off in Belém, Brazil, Nov. 10 amid calls for an overhaul of an annual climate conference full of contradictions.
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Oct 30, 2025
This World Series holds extra meaning for Toronto, after nearly a year of U.S.-Canadian diplomatic loggerheads. But it's also just a game.
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Oct 30, 2025
The Trump administration's pursuit of "a new economic Monroe Doctrine," in which the United States extends a hand to the president's ideological soulmates, as was the case in Argentina, is stirring historical suspicions of U.S. motives.
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Oct 30, 2025
President Trump's war on boats in the Caribbean allegedly carrying drugs recalls earlier U.S. regional campaigns, including the Spanish-American War.
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Oct 30, 2025
President Trump's war on boats in the Caribbean allegedly carrying drugs recalls earlier U.S. regional campaigns, including the Spanish-American War.
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Oct 30, 2025
China hopes that its refusal to bow to U.S. trade pressure will persuade Mr. Trump to seek a more conciliatory relationship with his country's main rival.
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Oct 29, 2025
Violations of Gaza's ceasefire highlight challenges facing Hamas until a new Palestinian administration is formed and a security force is deployed.
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Oct 29, 2025
The popular Netflix film "KPop Demon Hunters" is the latest K-pop rage. South Korea has been relying on this cultural export to shore up soft power.
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Oct 28, 2025
Iran quietly voiced support for the Trump ceasefire plan in Gaza, based on its ally Hamas' acceptance of the deal. Analysts say Tehran is trying to change the narrative about its regional posture, painting Israel as the real threat.
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Oct 28, 2025
Every country debates how students should fund higher education. Russia's new plan is to try a Soviet solution: require graduates to do national service.
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Oct 28, 2025
A garbage-dump-turned-park in Lagos is providing room for children to roam free and play.
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Oct 27, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping is purging top military and political leaders in a campaign aimed at curbing corruption and removing potential rivals.
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Oct 27, 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping is purging top military and political leaders in a campaign aimed at curbing corruption and removing potential rivals.
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Oct 27, 2025
Syria's new school year, the first since the fall of the Assad regime, has a revised look at history and increased emphasis on religion. As one teacher notes, a curriculum is more than lessons; it shows how a nation understands itself.
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Oct 27, 2025
Syria's new school year, the first since the fall of the Assad regime, has a revised look at history and increased emphasis on religion. As one teacher notes, a curriculum is more than lessons; it shows how a nation understands itself.
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Oct 27, 2025
As China and Russia try to weaken NATO nations through cyberattacks, the alliance is responding with plans for better coordination - including for counterattack.
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Oct 26, 2025
Prosecutors have taken two suspects into custody a week after a heist at the world's most visited museum shocked Paris.
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Oct 25, 2025
President Nicolás Maduro claims Washington is starting a "new eternal war" as aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford moves closer to Venezuela.
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Oct 24, 2025
Argentina votes Sunday in midterm legislative elections that serve as a report card for President Javier Milei's economic policies. He tamed inflation, but now the economy is stalled, many are worse off, and corruption is an issue.
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Oct 23, 2025
As Ivory Coast's Oct. 25 presidential election approaches, many young people here say they are cynical about the possibility of political change.
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Oct 23, 2025
The daylight robbery of jewelry from the Louvre has shocked residents and tourists in Paris. But it has stirred up their imaginations as well.
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Oct 23, 2025
U.S. sanctions on Russia's largest oil companies place new pressure on President Vladimir Putin. But, evidenced by President Donald Trump's frequently shifting positions, it's still unclear where he will land on how to end the war in Ukraine.
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Oct 22, 2025
Many Venezuelans support U.S. military strikes against drug trafficking, hoping they could topple President Nicolás Maduro.
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Oct 22, 2025
The world's second-largest economy is deciding its economic strategy for the next five years, a decision with high global stakes.
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Oct 22, 2025
Pakistan says the Taliban should stop a militant group that is attacking from Afghanistan. The tension erupted into conflict, now eased by a ceasefire.
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Oct 22, 2025
Pakistan says the Taliban should stop a militant group that is attacking from Afghanistan. The tension erupted into conflict, now eased by a ceasefire.
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Oct 21, 2025
Individual Israelis and professional organizations are feeling increasingly isolated globally as the world focuses on Palestinian suffering in Gaza. But do boycotts of academic and artistic institutions further the cause of peace?
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