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The ‘Caliph’ Speaks
As ISIS faces defeat in Mosul, its leader breaks a long silence to urge a fight to the death.
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Paul Hackett / Reuters Brexit Is Jeopardizing Britain's Intellectual Legacy
The country’s cherished universities are in turmoil over whether their European and foreign professors and students will be able to remain once its membership in the European Union is over.
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Cultural Differences or Abuse?
That question haunted this reader: When I read Olga Khazan’s “A Diary of Toxic Love,”…
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Gene J. Puskar / AP Photos of the Week: 10/29–11/4
Drug rehabilitation in the Philippines, protests in Turkey, surfing in Ireland, the new World Series champion Chicago Cubs, and much more.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP Ranked: ‘Trumps’ ’Round the World
Some politicians were tormenting the establishment well before the Donald made it trendy.
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Enrique Castro-Mendivil / Reuters A Portrait From Cuba and a President in Lebanon: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Mario Tama / Getty Flying Above Antarctica With NASA's Operation IceBridge
Getty Images photographer Mario Tama recently spent several days accompanying NASA scientists making 12-hour research flights over West Antarctica.
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Francois Lenoir / Reuters A Blow to Brexit
A court derails the prime minister's plans—for now.
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Thierry Bornier / 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer ... 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest, Part II
National Geographic Magazine’s annual photo contest is still under way, but the deadline for submissions is coming up on Friday.
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Cris Toala Olivares / Reuters Should Calling for ‘Fewer Moroccans’ Be Considered Hate Speech?
The trial of Geert Wilders tests the limits of free discourse.
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Jason Reed / Reuters Is the CIA Ready for the Age of Cyberwar?
Behind the most sweeping reforms in the agency’s history—and their limits
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Win McNamee / Getty, Brendan Smialowski / Getty ... Clinton and Trump on the Campaign Trail: One Final Look
With just one week left until the end of this historic and seemingly endless presidential campaign season, I’ve gathered 20 photos from each of the major campaigns over the past 18 months.
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Erik de Castro / Reuters The Limits of Rodrigo Duterte's Anti-Americanism
The fiery president of the Philippines wants to bring his country out of Washington’s shadow. But how far can he go?
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Alexei Nikolsky / Sputnik Photo Agency / Reuters Trump, Putin, and the Alt-Right International
In boosting Trump and funding fringe parties in Europe, Russia has helped construct a new kind of "comintern"—and it's even more effective than the Cold War version.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters Photos of Halloween 2016
Images of people parading, trick-or-treating, partying, or getting scared silly in haunted houses, from around the world.
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Daniella Zalcman Erasing Indigenous Heritage
Portraits and interviews with native Canadians abused within the government’s Indian Residential School system
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Carlos Eduardo Ramirez / Reuters How Much Longer Can Venezuela Go On Like This?
Large numbers of citizens want to oust President Nicolas Maduro. But he commands the loyalty of many men with guns.
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Colin McPherson / Getty How Did Maajid Nawaz End Up on a List of 'Anti-Muslim Extremists'?
“They put a target on my head.”
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Marco Ugarte / AP Photos of the Week: 10/22–10/28
Sculpture by the Sea in Australia, a bison roundup in Utah, fighting in Iraq and Syria, on the campaign trail in New Hampshire and Florida, pipeline protests in North Dakota, and much more.
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Khaled Al Hariri / Reuters Ranked: Authoritarians Condescending to America About Its Elections
“If half the things said here are true, neither can be president of the United States or any other country.”
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Stine Jacobsen / Reuters Pirates for Iceland and Danes Against Donald: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
