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World

Israeli defense minister quits, hits out at Netanyahu over Gaza truce

Avigdor Lieberman has demanded a stronger response to Palestinian militants' most intense round of rocket fire against Israel since the 2014 Gaza war.

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CSIS/Beyond Parallel/DigitalGlobe 2018 via Reuters

World

Hidden North Korean missile sites are 'nothing new,' South Korea says

Image: Rashida Tlaib celebrates at her midterm election night party in Detroit

Rebecca Cook / Reuters

World

Rashida Tlaib's family in the West Bank cheer her election to Congress

Image: Girls playing outside at the Laufasborg kindergarten

Brynjar Gunnarsson / for NBC News

World

These schools teach boys to be like girls, and girls to be like boys

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Muhammad Sadiq / EPA

Global Power

New U.S. commander in Afghanistan says we're taking the fight to the Taliban

Micron Technology Inc. Memory Chips As China-Backed Takeover Bid Seen Facing Tough U.S. Review

Tomohiro Ohsumi / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

U.S. news

Chinese company charged with stealing trade secrets from U.S. computer firm

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World

Pope Francis can help solve mystery of girl's disappearance, brother says

Image: al-Tanf base along the border with Jordan and Iraq

Military

Inside the remote U.S. base in Syria central to combating ISIS and countering Iran

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Federica Valabrega

World

Polygamy persists in Bedouin culture. That could be changing.

Image: Rolf and William Hellem-Brusso in the Lofoten islands, Norway

World

Chilling out at the world's northernmost surfing contest

Image: U.S. President Trump meets with Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file

World

Trump may have lost his risky bet on Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman

Image: Rob Yates flat in Margate, Kent, with his "Block Brexit" sign in the windows.

Mo Abbas / NBC News

World

Brexit is just six months away. And nobody is happy.

Venezuela's economic meltdown makes money worth less by the minute

Latino

Venezuela's economic meltdown makes money worth less by the minute

Image: President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Nicholas Kamm / AFP - Getty Images

Global Power

Architect of two-state solution isn't buying Trump's peace push

Image: A demonstrator holds a banner depicting Turkish President Erdogan in Berlin

Omer Messinger / EPA

Global Power

Turkey vows to conduct 'operations' against enemies on U.S. soil

Image: A mohel arranges medical equipment a circumcision ceremony

iStockphoto / Getty Images file

World

Proposed circumcision ban rattles Jews, Muslims in Iceland

He risked his life playing 'The Game': A migrant's harrowing journey to the West

Video Games

He risked his life playing 'The Game': A migrant's harrowing journey to the West

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Tanya Habjouqa / for NBC News

Global Power

515,000 kids face school closures after U.S. axes Palestinian funding

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Global Power

China spends big to avert a crisis when the Dalai Lama dies

Behind the smile: The descendants of the real Mona Lisa

NBC News

Behind the smile: The descendants of the real Mona Lisa

Meet the many descendants of Renaissance master Caravaggio

NBC News

Meet the many descendants of Renaissance master Caravaggio

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Mahmud Hams / AFP - Getty Images file

Global Power

Why protesters put their lives on the line by approaching Gaza fence

After 500 years, a clue to who inspired Botticelli's ‘Birth of Venus’

NBC News

After 500 years, a clue to who inspired Botticelli's ‘Birth of Venus’