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| September 19, 2021, 12:00 pm MOSCOW—Russians headed to the polls in the final day of parliamentary elections that will determine whether President Vladimir Putin tightens his grip on the country |
| September 18, 2021, 3:44 pm KABUL—Teenage Afghan girls weren’t allowed to return to school on Saturday as classrooms across the country reopened for the first time since the Taliban took |
| September 18, 2021, 3:00 pm KABUL—On a recent day, Mohammad Akbar Ishaqzadeh stood on a river bank in Kabul, selling nearly all of his family’s possessions.
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| September 18, 2021, 12:00 pm KABUL—Teenage Afghan girls weren’t allowed to return to school on Saturday as classrooms across the country reopened for the first time since the Taliban took |
| September 18, 2021, 12:00 pm BRUSSELS—Russia’s deepening integration with Belarus is presenting a fresh military threat to Western-backed Ukraine, which Moscow is trying to draw back into its orbit.
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| September 18, 2021, 3:03 am The U.S. is pushing to extend a United Nations waiver on a travel ban against the Taliban, Western officials say, an effort meant to facilitate |
| September 18, 2021, 3:00 am Abdelaziz Bouteflika, a longtime fixture of Algerian politics whose ghostly hold on the presidency despite debilitating illness triggered large protests leading to his resignation in |
| September 18, 2021, 12:00 am The organization that oversees London’s gold trading blocked metal mined in Kyrgyzstan from entering the city’s market, dealing a blow to the central Asian nation’s |
| September 17, 2021, 9:00 pm Two months after Ben & Jerry’s said it would stop retailing its products in Jewish settlements located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, several state funds |
| September 17, 2021, 9:00 pm WASHINGTON—The U.S. military said Friday that it mistakenly killed at least 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children—but not Islamic State terrorists, as intended—when it launched |
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