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More vaccines could be delivered to poor countries in the coming weeks than they have received so far this year, but authorities say they will struggle to get them into people’s arms
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While more vaccines could be delivered in the coming weeks than countries have received this year, many countries lack the fridges and facilities needed to distribute the shots and are fighting...
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Latin America produces much of the world’s food. But tens of millions of people here can no longer afford to eat it. with @luciwsj and @SFrydlewsky
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Bad harvests and supply bottlenecks are leaving poor families hungry in the developing world, from Peru to the Philippines.
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Some former U.S.-trained Afghan soldiers and spies, abandoned after America's withdrawal and hunted by the Taliban, have enlisted in Islamic State
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Hunted by the Taliban and lacking income, some members of Afghanistan’s disbanded security forces are enlisting in the only force currently challenging the country’s new rules.
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A 12-year-old girl’s video challenged Mexico’s coronavirus czar over a policy against vaccinating minors. “I’ve learned you have to stand up for yourself in this world. Now, I’m standing up for others who want the vaccine.”
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Facebook's services are used to spread religious hatred in India, internal documents show. Company researchers identified calls to violence that coincided with the 2020 riots in Delhi that left 53 dead.
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Kidnapping has become the great equalizer in Haiti, as violent gangs target resident of both mansions and hovels, and all classes, ages and walks of life
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In debt and desperate to feed her family, a housecleaner in Afghanistan earning 70 cents a day is considering handing over her three-year-old daughter to pay her lender. “If life continues to be this awful, I will kill my children and myself.”
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Afghan women fear going outside and speaking out as fear of the Taliban and uncertainty prevail
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While the Taliban have publicly pledged to respect women’s rights within the limits of Islam, many inside and outside Afghanistan fear the worst for women’s freedoms. Already, women are retreating...
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“Everyone left the war and escaped.” How the Afghan army, built by the U.S. and allies over 20 years, collapsed on contact with a swift Taliban offensive.
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Across the Asia-Pacific region, few Covid-19 infections and low vaccination rates have led to an immunity shortfall as the Delta variant strikes
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Tunisia's remarkable democratic transition is facing its biggest test in 10 years. Here's how the country got here. With reporting help from @Ghaya_BM in Tunis:
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The country whose protest movement promised to transform the Middle East a decade ago is in turmoil after its president suspended parliament and seized executive power, stirring concerns that the...
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The scandal-tainted Vatican bank has been overhauled over the last decade to ward off tax evaders and money launderers. Now it must convince legitimate customers it has something to offer them.
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The scandal-tainted Vatican bank has been overhauled over the last decade to ward off tax evaders and money launderers. Now it must convince legitimate customers, inside the Vatican and out, that it...
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Denmark wants to tighten a policy aimed at reducing the concentration of “non-Western” residents in disadvantaged areas—a policy that has drawn lawsuits and accusations of xenophobia
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Denmark wants to tighten a policy aimed at reducing the concentration of “non-Western” residents in disadvantaged areas—a policy that has drawn lawsuits and accusations of xenophobia.
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After mass vaccinations, a town in Brazil begins to return to normal as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage across the rest of the country
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In peaceable Sweden, authorities are readying people for the kind of crisis that seemed unthinkable a decade ago: a military invasion by Russia
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As it fights the world’s fastest-growing surge of infections, India is also carrying out one of the most logistically complex vaccination campaigns
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Dozens of Syrians are stripped of refugee protection in Denmark and told to go back to Syria: “Why would you wait until now that we have integrated and we now consider this our country and reached this stage and now you are telling us to go?”
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Denmark, which has some of the West’s toughest immigration policies, has determined that parts of Syria are safe and revoked refugees’ residency status.
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Will the pandemic result in a rhino baby boom? Park rangers in Nepal hope so. "I never saw them this relaxed in groups before."
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A census of one-horned rhinos is on in Nepal, and some officials think there could be a pandemic baby boom; ‘I never saw them this relaxed in groups before’
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Prince Philip, a constant presence at the side of Queen Elizabeth II and longest-serving consort to a monarch in British history, has died at 99
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Time running out, billions of dollars of cargo on the line and the tide ebbing away. Inside the race to free the Ever Given.
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Engineers worked around the clock to dig out the huge container ship, battling high winds and strong tides as Egypt’s President Sisi pressed them for quick results.
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