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Cleaning Latrines by Hand: ‘How Could Any Human Do That?’
[ad_1] When he came to fully realize exactly what his parents and older brother did for a living, and what it likely meant for his own future, Bezwada Wilson says he was so angry he contemplated suicide. His family members, and his broader community, were manual scavengers, tasked with cleaning by hand human excrement from dry latrines at a government-run…
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In Australia and New Zealand, Barefoot Is a Way of Life
[ad_1] The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter based in Melbourne. I had just moved to New Zealand, at age 12, when a new friend suggested that we slip out to the corner store (dairy in New Zealand English)…
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Lights! Camera! Modi! It’s a One-Man Show on Indian Television.
[ad_1] The people streaming into the holy town came on an intimate quest: to be among the first to seek the blessings of a beloved god they said was returning home after 500 years. These Hindu devotees took leaves of absence from work. They ate with fellow pilgrims, slept in the cold and sipped tea at roadside joints as they…
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Ceferin’s UEFA Term Limits Fight Renews Debate on Presidential Power
[ad_1] The new president of European soccer’s governing body settled into a chair in his glass-walled office in Switzerland, glanced out at the sweeping views of Lake Geneva and insisted he would not be there long enough to get comfortable. It was 2017, soccer was still emerging from its greatest scandal and Aleksander Ceferin, only a few months into his…
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Malaysia Halves Sentence of Najib Razak, Fallen Ex-Prime Minister
[ad_1] The authorities in Malaysia have halved the sentence of Najib Razak, a former prime minister convicted of stealing millions of dollars from a government fund, a move that has triggered outrage in the country. The leniency for Mr. Najib comes after weeks of speculation in Malaysia that he might be pardoned by King Sultan Abdullah, whose tenure under Malaysia’s…
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January Transfer Window Totals: Where Have All the Deals Gone?
[ad_1] It is not quite right to say that this has been a quiet January for soccer’s billion-dollar transfer business. The month’s ordinary soundtrack — whispers gathering, phones pinging, the machine that produces vivid chyrons for breathless television broadcasts whirring to life — might have been muted, but that does not mean there has been nothing to hear. Listen carefully,…
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How Closely Does Iran Control Its Proxy Forces? It Depends.
[ad_1] Iran projects its military power through dozens of armed groups across the Middle East, but how much does it control their actions? That question has taken on new urgency as the United States considers its next steps after an attack by an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia on an American base in northwest Jordan. The attack on Sunday killed three soldiers…
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U.S. Conducts Retaliatory Strikes Against Iranian Proxies as War Intensifies
[ad_1] The United States on Friday carried out a series of military strikes against Iranian forces and the militias they support in seven sites in Syria and Iraq, marking a sharp escalation of the war in the Middle East that the Biden administration has for four months sought to avoid. The airstrikes, targeting command and control operations, intelligence centers, weapons…
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Israel Signals Its Military Will Move Into Rafah, in Southern Gaza
[ad_1] Israel’s defense minister has signaled that ground forces will advance toward the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, which has become a refuge for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians pushed from their homes by nearly 13 weeks of war. Rafah, which has also been a gateway for humanitarian aid, is a sprawl of tents and makeshift shelters…
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U.S. Hits Back at Iran With Sanctions, Criminal Charges and Airstrikes
[ad_1] In the hours before the United States carried out strikes against Iran-backed militants on Friday, Washington hit Tehran with more familiar weapons: sanctions and criminal charges. The Biden administration sanctioned officers and officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s premier military force, for threatening the integrity of water utilities and for helping manufacture Iranian drones. And it unsealed…
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