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Taliban Free 2 Westerners Working for U.N., Days After Quiet Detention

Taliban Free 2 Westerners Working for U.N., Days After Quiet Detention

ISTANBUL — The Taliban on Friday released two Western citizens and two Afghan colleagues who had been working for the…

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Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress

Afghanistan’s Health Care System Is Collapsing Under Stress

KABUL, Afghanistan — Amena, 7 months old, lay silently in her hospital crib amid the mewling of desperately ill infants…

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In the Tinderbox of Bosnia, a Serb Nationalist Lights a Match

In the Tinderbox of Bosnia, a Serb Nationalist Lights a Match

It was in Sarajevo, Bosnia’s capital, that a teenage Serb nationalist set off World War I by assassinating an Austrian…

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Why There’s a Growing Push to Ban Killer Robots

Why There’s a Growing Push to Ban Killer Robots

It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently…

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Pope Francis Laments That for Migrants, ‘Little Has Changed’

Pope Francis Laments That for Migrants, ‘Little Has Changed’

LESBOS, Greece — Pope Francis returned Sunday to a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, the site of…

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