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President Nayib Bukele speaks on Nov. 20, 2023, in La Libertad, El Salvador. Bukele was reelected in a landslide.

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  • Latin America

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador's popular but authoritarian president, declares election win

President Bukele was widely expected to be reelected in a landslide. He has cracked down on gangs but also has taken steps to consolidate his power and eliminate opposition.

February 04, 2024
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  • James Doubek
The sun sets as smoke fills the sky caused by the forest fire encroaching on Vina del Mar, Chile, on Saturday. Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left dozens of people dead and destroyed hundreds of homes.

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  • Latin America

Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 99 people

The fires have been burning with the highest intensity around the city of Viña del Mar, where a famous botanical garden founded in 1931 was destroyed by the flames on Sunday.

February 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Central Command released this undated photo as part of its announcement of renewed airstrikes against Houthi targets on Saturday.

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  • National Security

The U.S. targets Iranian proxies for a second day in a row

The new round of U.S. strikes is far more extensive and deadly than those that have been launched since October, when the Israel-Hamas war began and pro-Iranian groups began their attacks.

February 04, 2024
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  • NPR Washington Desk
The new documentary <em>Agent of Happiness</em> follows Bhutanese bureaucrats who survey people about their state of mind. From right: director Dorottya Zurbó, happiness agents Amber Kumar Gurung and Guna Raj Kuikel, and director Arun Bhattarai.

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  • Global Health

Are you happy? New film follows a Bhutan bureaucrat who asks 148 questions to find out

The new documentary Agent of Happiness explores Bhutan's efforts to measure its own "gross national happiness." The film follows one not-especially-happy agent who gathers the data.

February 04, 2024
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  • Jonathan Lambert
What is left of Pasha's Palace amid Israel's bombardment of Gaza. Historians of Gaza say Napoleon slept there for three nights in 1799.

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  • Middle East

A requiem for Gaza's iconic sites, destroyed in the war

We created a mini travel guide to Gaza City's historical and cultural landmarks five years ago. Every site we visited is now destroyed, badly damaged, or inaccessible.

February 04, 2024
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  • Daniel Estrin and
  • Abu Bakr Bashir
A paddle boarder heads out into the water in Eilat, Israel. Normally, Eilat's beaches and hotels would be busy with tourists.

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  • Middle East

A seaside town shelters thousands of Israeli evacuees, but struggles without tourists

The tourists are gone and many of the hotels are filled with displaced Israelis nearly four months after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

February 04, 2024
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  • Jackie Northam
FILE - Namibia President Hage Geingob speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, on Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Namibian president has died in a hospital where he was receiving treatment, his office said Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024.

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  • Africa

Namibian President Hage Geingob dies in a hospital where he was receiving treatment

In a post on the social media platform X the Namibian presidency said Geingob's medical team at Lady Pohamba Hospital did its best to help him, but Geingob died with his wife and children by his side.

February 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani chairs a meeting with top-ranking officials of the Iraqi armed forces and of the U.S.-led coalition about the future of American and other foreign troops in the country, in Baghdad on Jan. 27.

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  • Middle East

Iraq condemns U.S. airstrikes against Iran-linked groups

Iraqi government officials condemned the retaliatory U.S. airstrikes, saying the attacks showed U.S. forces had become a threat to their host country.

February 03, 2024
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  • Jane Arraf
Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill walks down steps at Stormont Parliament Buildings in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Saturday. O'Neill made history by becoming the first Irish nationalist leader of Northern Ireland.

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  • Europe

For the first time, an Irish nationalist leads Northern Ireland's government

Sinn Fein VP Michelle O'Neill became first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace accord shares power between Northern Ireland's two main communities.

February 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Global Health

The breast cancer burden in lower income countries is even worse than we thought

The World Health Organization has just released the latest worldwide statistics of the global burden of cancer. Here are five takeaways from WHO's top expert on cancer.

February 03, 2024
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  • Nurith Aizenman
In this image made from video, firefighters work on a fire in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024.

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  • Africa

A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280

Liquid petroleum gas cylinders exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, officials said Friday, setting off the inferno. The death toll was expected to rise.

February 03, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the dignified transfer of the remains of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday.

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  • National Security

U.S. hits Iranian proxies in Iraq, Syria in retaliation for deadly strikes

The strikes are more extensive and deadly than those launched since last October, when the Israeli-Gaza war began and pro-Iranian groups started an uptick of attacks.

February 02, 2024
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  • Tom Bowman and
  • Jane Arraf
President Biden watches the dignified transfer of the remains of the three U.S. service members killed in the drone attack in Jordan, at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., on Feb. 2.

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  • National Security

Biden attends the dignified transfer at Dover for service members killed in Jordan

It is one of the most solemn tasks for a commander-in-chief, bearing witness as the bodies of fallen service members return to U.S. soil at Dover Air Force Base.

February 02, 2024
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Israeli troops enter a Hamas tunnel underneath a cemetery in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Jan. 27. Israel said Thursday that it had defeated Hamas in the city, the main battleground in recent days.

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  • Middle East

Israel says it defeated Hamas in a key city, now aims for Gaza's southern border

Israel's defense minister says Hamas forces have been dismantled in Khan Younis, the main battleground in recent days. He says Israel will now push toward Gaza's southern border.

February 02, 2024
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  • Greg Myre
At a partially operating Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing on Monday, a man walks past a map of China that shows Evergrande's commercial complexes throughout the country. Evergrande was once listed as the world's most valuable real estate company, but on Monday, a Hong Kong court ordered it to be liquidated.

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  • Asia

Here's what to know about the collapse of China's Evergrande property developer

In 2018, Evergrande was listed as the world's most valuable real estate company. But on Monday, a Hong Kong court ordered it to be liquidated.

February 02, 2024
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  • Scott Neuman
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