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Christians in Iraq are preparing for a muted holiday season, with one bishop in the southern city of Basra calling for a ban on public festivities while other congregations across the country have canceled services and cautioned worshipers to keep their celebrations private.
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This week's events from around the world.
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Long denied access to foreign technology because of sanctions, Iran has nevertheless learned how to make virtually every bolt and switch in a nuclear weapon, according to assessments by U.N. nuclear officials in internal documents, as well as Western and Middle Eastern intelligence analysts and w...
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I set off for Asmara having read about Eritrea's extraordinary liberation struggle against Ethiopia, about its fierce sense of independence and its experiment in self-reliance.
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TIMBUKTU, MALI -- The glittering slabs of white salt had been brought here across more than 400 miles of Sahara, as they always have. Al-Hussein Boubakar, their purveyor, was haggling with a customer, as he always does.
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MALE, MALDIVES -- President Mohamed Nasheed, one of the world's youngest heads of state, likes to joke about his age.
Washington Post World Desk Photos: Despite a decade of record drought, Australian farmers refuse to buy into climate change
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Australians are out front in experiencing the life-altering consequences of climate change. Rising temperatures and declining rainfall are, with increasing frequency, transforming the Outback into a crematorium for kangaroos, livestock and farm towns.
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SUWAYRAH, IRAQ -- The U.S. military called it shock and awe, and it began on March 21, 2003 -- 8:09 p.m., to be exact. It concluded here with a sigh. No one quite remembers when the Americans withdrew from Forward Operating Base Summers.
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The revised strategy for Afghanistan
that President Obama will announce Tuesday is expected to focus new
resources on training Afghan security forces and shoring up the central
government, an approach certain to revive a debate about the
possibilities and the limits of nation-building.
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Washington Post World Desk The dispute over the air station on Okinawa has become a highly publicized symbol of Japan's new forcefulness in negotiations with its most important ally.
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TOKYO -- Japan's new government, already bickering with the United States about the location of a Marine air station on Okinawa, appears intent on revealing evidence of a decades-old secret pact between Tokyo and Washington that allowed U.S. ships and aircraft to carry nuclear weapons on stopover...
The ultimate crop rotation: Wealthy nations outsource crops to Ethiopia's farmlands - washingtonpost
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BAKO, ETHIOPIA -- In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland.
Washington Post World Desk On this day in 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. Read more: http://bit.ly/CAZAt
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TARUNA JAYA, INDONESIA -- Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, ...
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Allegation, if proved true, would mark one of the most brazen
examples of corruption yet disclosed in Afghanistan.
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KABUL -- The Afghan minister of mines accepted a roughly $30 million bribe to award the country's largest development project to a Chinese mining firm, according to a U.S. official who is familiar with military intelligence reports.
