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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the “mass production” of attack drones, state media reported Friday, as concerns mount over the country’s deepening military cooperation with Russia.Pyongyang first unveiled its attack drones in August, with experts saying the capability may be attributable to the country’s budding alliance with Russia.The nuclear-armed country has ratified …

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From the ground floor of a low-income apartment building in Toronto, Sultana Jahangir runs an organization that helps South Asian women get established in Canada — a challenge she said is getting harder.Polling and migration experts tell a consistent story: broad support for immigration that prevailed for decades in Canada has cracked following a three-year …

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Ambushes, firefights and a market grenade blast: headline-grabbing attacks in Indian-run Kashmir are designed to challenge New Delhi’s bid to portray normality in the disputed territory, Indian security officials say.Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan since their partition at the chaotic end of British rule in 1947, and both countries claim …

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Donald Trump on Thursday tapped anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his secretary of health in the latest provocative nomination from the incoming Republican president.”We want you to come up with things and ideas and what you’ve been talking about for a long time and I think you’re going to do …

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At a popular LGBTQ cabaret in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, Lisa Frankenstein wasn’t about to let the topic of Donald Trump go without mention.”I don’t know about all of you, but I’ve found it really hard to find a place to get my feelings out in a way that makes me feel better,” …

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From banning tuk-tuks and barbecues to demolishing old brick kilns, Pakistan’s government is pushing a series of measures to fight record-breaking smog. But environmental activists and experts warn that the efforts hardly begin to fix a problem that leaves the country choking every winter, with Punjab, a region of almost 130 million people bordering India, bearing …

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Across northern Israel’s lush, green nature reserves, the ecological toll of the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants is laid bare: wild boar hit by shrapnel, trees reduced to ashes and swathes of charred vegetation.In the Hula Valley, home to a unique migration sanctuary for birds, a flock of common cranes and their cacophony of …

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US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived in Peru Thursday for an Asia-Pacific summit where they will likely meet for the last time under a cloud of diplomatic uncertainty cast by Donald Trump’s election victory.Air Force One touched down at an air base outside Lima as Xi, who landed hours earlier, …

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Political science student Saul Lara awakes around 4:00 am to begin his long journey — over two hours by motorcycle taxi and crowded metro — from the outskirts of Mexico City to school.The tiring commute illustrates the hardships brought by a crippling housing crisis in the Mexican capital, which has particularly impacted young people.As well …

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A failed bomb attack on Brazil’s Supreme Court is being probed as a “terrorist act” with possible links to an insurrection last year against President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the country’s police chief said Thursday.The attempted attack, which happened late Wednesday in the capital Brasilia, came as the country prepares to host leaders including …

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