- Fed Up With the Taliban, Pakistan Expels Masses of Afghans The New York Times
- Refugees Paying Heavy Toll For Afghan Taliban, Pakistan Tensions Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Refugee Journalists from Afghanistan in Pakistan: Caught in Limbo and…
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Fed Up With the Taliban, Pakistan Expels Masses of Afghans – The New York Times
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Switzerland votes on 50% inheritance tax for the super-rich
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Switzerland votes on Sunday on whether to impose a 50 per cent inheritance levy on the super-rich, as governments around…
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In battered Lebanon, an ancient Christian community awaits the new pope
The black-clad priest yanked on the white rope. At once the bells began to clang.
The evening mass was beginning at the Monastery of Mar Maroun, or Saint Maroun, in the town of Annaya,…
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Anger mounts in Hong Kong over apartment fires as Beijing warns against ‘anti-China disruptors’ | Hong Kong apartment fires
Anger over a deadly blaze at a Hong Kong high-rise apartment complex simmered on Sunday as Beijing warned against attempts to use the disaster to disrupt the city, while people across the financial hub continued to mourn for the more than 128…
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Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis: ‘Too scared to speak’
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Kyla Herrmannsen,Minna, Nigeria
EPA/ShutterstockParents have been waiting outside the school in Papiri desperate for news Many of the parents whose children were abducted 10 days ago from a boarding school in Nigeria are terrified -…
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Test all babies for rare genetic disease SMA, parents urge
Nino Travagli PhotographyRosie and Wes, from Driffield, East Yorkshire, with Marley, five, and baby Meadow Two children with a rare genetic condition will live very different lives because one was tested at birth and the other was not, their…
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Ukrainian naval drones strike two Russian oil tankers in Black Sea | Ukraine
Ukrainian naval drones hit two tankers operating under sanctions in the Black Sea as they headed to a Russian port to load up with oil destined for foreign markets, an official said on Saturday, as Kyiv tries to pile pressure on Russia’s vast…
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