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Who Is Lai Ching-te, Taiwan’s Next President?
[ad_1] In 2014, when Lai Ching-te was a rising political star in Taiwan, he visited China and was quizzed in public about the most incendiary issue for leaders in Beijing: his party’s stance on the island’s independence. His polite but firm response, people who know him say, was characteristic of the man who was on Saturday elected president and is…
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Cheered by Thousands, Denmark’s New King Takes His Throne
[ad_1] Tens of thousands of people gathered on the streets of Copenhagen to celebrate the accession of Denmark’s new king, Frederik X, on Sunday, just two weeks after his mother, Queen Margrethe II, made the dramatic announcement that she would abdicate. The country’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, presented the new king, bareheaded and wearing a dark uniform adorned with medals…
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War or No War, Many Older Ukrainians Want to Stay Put
[ad_1] They sit in ones and twos in half-destroyed homes. They shelter in musty basements marked in chalk with “people underground” — a message to whichever troops happen to be fighting that day. They venture out to visit cemeteries and reminisce about any time other than now. Ukraine’s elderly are often the only people who remain along the country’s hundreds…
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North Korea Test-Fires Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile
[ad_1] North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile off its east coast on Sunday, an indication, analysts said, that it has started testing a new and harder-to-intercept weapon capable of reaching American military bases in the Western Pacific, including those on Guam. The missile was launched from near Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Sunday afternoon, but it did not…
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Israel Vows to Keep Fighting Hamas in Gaza
[ad_1] Israel’s political and military leaders marked 100 days of war against Hamas in Gaza over the weekend by vowing to continue until victory, even as they awaited a decision from the world’s top court on a possible injunction against the Israeli military’s devastating offensive. About 1,200 people were killed during the Hamas-led Oct. 7 assault against Israel, a majority…
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New Leader Takes Over in Guatemala, Raising Hopes for Fragile Democracy
[ad_1] Since Bernardo Arévalo burst onto Guatemala’s political scene last year as an anticorruption crusader, he has faced an assassination plot, his party’s suspension and a barrage of legal attacks aimed at preventing him from taking office as president. Now comes the hard part. Mr. Arévalo’s inauguration on Sunday — six months after his presidential victory delivered a stunning rebuke…
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Iceland Volcano Erupts in Same Area as December Event
[ad_1] A volcano in Iceland erupted on Sunday after hundreds of earthquakes shook the Reykjanes peninsula, prompting evacuations in a town near where a fissure opened up and spewed lava last month. The eruption happened at about 8 a.m. local time near Sundhnjúkar north of the town of Grindavik, according to local news media and the nation’s civil defense agency.…
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Whisky From Wales? Believe It, Say the Welsh.
[ad_1] It is famed for a love of singing and a passion for rugby. It has a distinctive Celtic language and is the birthplace of the poet Dylan Thomas. But few would claim that Wales, a nation of three million people outnumbered by sheep, is well known for whiskey, or whisky, as it is known in Wales. Yet the country…
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Macron’s New French Cabinet Features Veteran Politicians and Some Surprises
[ad_1] President Emmanuel Macron of France convened a new, smaller cabinet for the first time on Friday, a day after a government reshuffle that brought in a handful of new ministers — including one poached from the right and a Europe-focused foreign minister — but that left most key positions untouched. “A united government,” Mr. Macron said before camera crews…
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U.S.-Led Strikes Leave Yemen Back on the Brink of War
[ad_1] The explosions woke Ali Al-Sunaidar and his children in the middle of the night — a familiar feeling after years of war. He knew that the ancient mud-brick buildings in Yemen’s capital, Sana, could collapse under the pressure released by bombings, so he opened the windows in his home, letting in the winter air. “We were terrified and anxious,”…
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