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World

Proposed circumcision ban rattles Jews, Muslims in Iceland

Image: Russian S-400 Triumph medium-range and long-range surface-to-air missile systems ride through Red Square

Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP - Getty Images file

Global Power

China warns U.S. to withdraw new sanctions or 'bear the consequences'

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Sergei Bobylev / Reuters

Global Power

Russia teams up with China to aim for 'desirable world order'

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World

Snapchat addict who posted video of dying boyfriend is sentenced to 14 years for manslaughter

/ Updated Sep.21.2018 / 4:57 PM GMT

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OUT Pop Culture

Kenya lifts ban on lesbian film, making it eligible for Oscars

/ Updated Sep.21.2018 / 3:35 PM GMT

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In Focus

The Week in Pictures: Florence hits hard and police pups on parade

/ Updated Sep.21.2018 / 1:40 PM GMT

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World

More than 100 dead after ferry sinks just yards from dock in Tanzania

/ Updated Sep.21.2018 / 10:38 AM GMT

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Lisi Niesner / Reuters

World

Brexit at breaking point? E.U., U.K. fail to resolve border issue as deadline looms

/ Updated Sep.21.2018 / 8:26 AM GMT

Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang is seen before a meeting with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi

Nguyen Huy Kham / Reuters

World

Vietnam President Tran Dai Quang dead at 61

/ Updated Sep.21.2018 / 6:19 AM GMT

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Trump Effect

Trump identifies remains of two American soldiers killed in Korean war

/ Updated Sep.20.2018 / 10:22 PM GMT

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Andrew Harnik / AP file

Global Power

Kim Jong Un wants Pompeo to pay another visit, more Trump talks

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Francois Lenoir / Reuters file

Tech & Media

Europe gives Facebook a three-month ultimatum over user data

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Jun Sato / Getty Images file

World

Trump trade war killed my promise of 1 million U.S. jobs, Chinese billionaire says

African elephants in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Africa

DNA fingerprints crack African ivory-smuggling cases

Leaders of North and South Korea trek to myth-laden mountain

North Korea

Leaders of North and South Korea trek to myth-laden mountain

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Left Field

Why did the Thai cave rescue keep us hooked?

Image: Pro-Erdogan supporters wave Turkish national flags during a rally in Istanbul a few days after the failed coup attempt in July 2016.

Aris Messinis / AFP - Getty Images file

Global Power

Turkey is building more prisons for Erdogan's opponents

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Pyeongyang Press Corps / Reuters

Global Power

North Korea's Kim agrees to dismantle main nuke site if U.S. takes steps, too

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Nikita Shchyukin / AFP - Getty Images file

World

Russia's military blames Israel after Syrians shoot down plane

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Global Power

As Israel moves right, young American Jews target Birthright tours in protest

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Linda Givetash / NBC News

World

Is one drink too many? Ireland to offer alcohol tests to pregnant women

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World

Bees are dying at an alarming rate. Amsterdam may have the answer.

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Tanya Habjouqa / for NBC News

Global Power

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

Image: U.S. President Trump and North Korea's Kim hold a signing ceremony at the conclusion of their summit in Singapore

Jonathan Ernst / Reuters file

Global Power

China jumpstarts trade with North Korea, undercutting the U.S.

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Ahmad Al-Rubaye / AFP - Getty Images file

Global Power

How Europe is plotting to skirt Trump's sanctions on Iran

Image: South Korea's President Moon Jae-in walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

KCNS / AFP - Getty Images

Global Power

Talks with North Korea are going well — just not Trump's

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Zakeria Hashimi / AFP - Getty Images file

World

Taliban demand militant network's scion be released as part of talks with U.S.

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Atta Kenare / AFP - Getty Images file

Trump Effect

Trump admin makes it harder for Christian refugees to enter U.S.

Image: Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov at Salisbury train station on March 3

Metropolitan Poilce / EPA

Global Power

Would-be assassins who poisoned ex-spy will likely escape justice

Image: Jalaluddin Haqqani, then Taliban Army Supreme Commander, speaks during an interview in Miram Shah, Pakistan

Mohammed Riaz / AP file

Global Power

'The Kennedys of the Taliban movement' lose their patriarch

Migrants wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya.

Stefano Rellandini / Reuters file

Global Power

Migrant drownings send Med's death rate to highest level on record

Mark Yates

Susannah Ireland / for NBC News

Global Power

A British wartime fortress prepares for Brexit gridlock

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Paul Goldman / NBC News

Military

U.S. veterans use archaeology to dig through trauma

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Global Power

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

Inside the tunnels used by Syrian rebels amid civil war

Nightly News

Inside the tunnels used by Syrian rebels amid civil war

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Global Power

Trump admin may send captured ISIS fighters to Iraq prison, Guantanamo

Thousands of Syrians return to war-torn city of Aleppo

Nightly News

Thousands of Syrians return to war-torn city of Aleppo

Pakistani troops take part in joint military drills with Russia

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Global Power

Nuclear-armed Pakistan pivots toward Putin as U.S. ties fray

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Culture Matters

Prince Harry bursts into song onstage at 'Hamilton' performance

North Korea and South Korea family reunion

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Global Power

Joy, and heartbreak, as Korean families reunited after 68 years

Behind the smile: The descendants of the real Mona Lisa

Meet the Press

Behind the smile: The descendants of the real Mona Lisa

Europe Migrants

Aris Messinis / Getty Images file

Global Power

Reality TV show gets participants to 'live like refugees'

Image: Konik horses graze in Oostvaardersplassen

Linda Givetash / NBC News

Global Power

Circle of life or experiment gone wrong? Horse slaughter divides the Netherlands

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Gabe Joselow / NBC News

Global Power

Reconstruction is in full swing in war-ravaged Aleppo

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China

China's most famous tree is in danger of being 'loved to death'

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Global Power

When is a German not a German? Identity re-emerges as a thorny issue

Image: Mona Lisa at the Louvre

Pedro Fiuza / NurPhoto / Getty Images file

Culture Matters

Muses for 'Mona Lisa' and 'Venus' inspire descendants centuries later

The 19th Guardian of the Pine: a famous Chinese tree and its bodyguard

Meet the Press

The 19th Guardian of the Pine: a famous Chinese tree and its bodyguard

Erik Prince

Jacquelyn Martin / AP file

Global Power

Trump eyes Erik Prince plan to privatize U.S. war in Afghanistan

Meet the many descendants of Renaissance master Caravaggio

Meet the Press

Meet the many descendants of Renaissance master Caravaggio

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Global Power

Putin-backed troops quietly move a border on the fringes of Europe

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Annie Sakkab / for NBC News

Global Power

Civil war destroyed their homes. These refugees are learning how to rebuild them.

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

Meet the Press

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

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Vladimir Banic / for NBC News

Global Power

Sedated babies, code words: Inside Europe's people-smuggling networks

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Farooq Naeem / AFP/Getty Images file

Global Power

New leader of terror-torn Pakistan plans to plant 10 billion trees

Image: Pulling pints at the Shakespeare's Head, London, one of almost 1,000 J.D.Wetherspoon pubs.

Alastair Jamieson

World

Pub tycoon pushes Brexit alongside pints

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World

Menstruating women often face banishment in India. Meghan Markle wants that to end.

Image: Kubra Golge shows a portrait of her husband, Serkan Golge

The New York Times via Redux

Global Power

A NASA scientist is behind bars in Turkey. But Trump isn't tweeting about it.

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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Global Power

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

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Global Power

Tea, cookies and perhaps peace: Taliban claims secret talks with U.S.

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Gent Shkullaku / AFP/Getty Images file

Global Power

Secret police files reopen old wounds decades after dictatorship crumbled

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Global Power

An island nation in the Mediterranean Sea is running dry

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Karpov / Reuters file

Global Power

Migrant rescue ship's ordeal exposes hardening views as populism blossoms

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Global Power

Wives of ISIS militants file for divorce, try to start over

Iceland is for gun lovers (but nobody gets shot)

World

Iceland is for gun lovers (but nobody gets shot)

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Global Power

Trump's 'deal of the century' can't escape America's past Mideast failures

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Mikael Sjoeberg / for NBC News

The World

Sweden has 65,000 bunkers. A 'wake-up call' from Russia means it's building more.