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The Times would like to hear from parents whose children are staying home from school to avoid exposure to dangerous levels of air pollution.
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Iranian suspects who stormed Saudi diplomatic missions in early this year were sentenced to prison.
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China Plans to Intervene in Hong Kong Dispute
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Islamists March in Jakarta, Demanding Christian Governor Be Jailed
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Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the first Christian leader of the Indonesian capital in decades, has been accused of blasphemy as he runs for re-election.
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The British musician said he would appear at the inaugural show on Nov. 12, almost 12 months to the day after a terrorist assault at the venue killed 90 people.
South Korean Leader Says She Will Submit to Scandal Inquiry
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President Park Geun-hye says she’s willing to submit to questioning by prosecutors looking into troubles that have engulfed her administration.
Turkey Detains Leaders of Kurdish Opposition Party
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The leaders, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, were detained as part of a counterterrorism investigation, state news media reported.
Egypt Floats Currency, Appeasing I.M.F. at Risk of Enraging Poor
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The move, which effectively devalues the Egyptian pound, is part of an effort to secure a desperately needed rescue loan from the International Monetary Fund.
Killing of Saudi Student Shakes Wisconsin College Town
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Rodrigo Duterte’s Pledge to Stop Cursing Lands in the Gutter
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The Interpreter
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The Philippine president’s strategy of balancing between the powers by threatening to change loyalties was used successfully by leaders throughout the era.
Article 50: Dusting Off the Road Map for ‘Brexit’
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Britain voted in June to leave the European Union, but the process can begin only when the government invokes a previously unused treaty provision.
Paris Is the New Calais, With Scores of Migrants Arriving Daily
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Recent arrivals from Africa and Afghanistan have been living in pup tents in the city’s northern neighborhoods, creating a new crisis for the French.
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L’Aquila, devastated by a 2009 earthquake, is Italy’s largest construction site. Yet much of it still feels like a ghost town, a sobering sign for cities struck by more recent quakes.
E.U. Official, Under Pressure for Having Disparaged the Chinese, Apologizes
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Sinosphere
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Crypt Believed to Be Jesus’ Tomb Opened for First Time in Centuries
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Bolshoi Gives Building Pass to Dancer Involved in Acid Attack on its Director
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Pavel V. Dmitrichenko, who was released from prison in May, said he received the pass this fall from the Bolshoi’s new artistic director.
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Op-Ed Contributor
In Nicaragua, a Blatantly Rigged Election
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Op-Ed Contributors
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Contributing Opinion Writer
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The Republican candidate and the deceased Venezuelan president are both populists by posture, if not ideology.
The World’s Political Power Couples
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