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Trump’s First Day in Office: Behind-the-Scenes Photos

A New York Times photographer followed President Trump for more than 18 hours on Inauguration Day. Here’s what he saw.

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Panama complains to UN over Trump canal threat, starts audit

Panama has complained to the United Nations over U.S. President Donald Trump’s “worrying” threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway. In a letter

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Indonesia rescuers search for survivors as landslide kills 19

Hundreds of rescuers were searching through thick mud and debris to find survivors Wednesday after a rain-triggered landslide in Indonesia killed at least 19 people and left seven missing. Intense rainfall in a mountainous area near Pekalongan city in Central

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‘Love for humanity’: Low-crime Japan’s unpaid parole officers

by Tomohiro OSAKI Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother — all in a day’s unpaid work for Japan’s army of volunteer probation officers. The 83-year-old, who jokes she is a “punk” as

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‘Did not push hard enough’: Navalny lawyer speaks of regrets

by Anna SMOLCHENKO The top lawyer of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison in February last year, told AFP she regretted not finding the right words to stop him returning to Moscow in 2021.

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Mauricio Funes: journalist turned El Salvador president

El Salvador’s ex-president Mauricio Funes died Tuesday at the age of 65 in Nicaragua, where he fled two years after leaving office and gained asylum following accusations of corruption in his country. Leading El Salvador from 2009 to 2014, Funes

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Masa Son, Trump’s Japanese buddy with the Midas Touch

by Simon STURDEE Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump’s big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a spectacular but also sketchy investment record. Trump’s “friend Masa” was born in Japan

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Simmering anger as Turkey begins burying 76 fire victims

by Fulya OZERKAN Turkey was preparing to bury its dead Wednesday a day after a huge fire killed 76 people at a ski resort hotel, as questions grew over safety measures at the luxury establishment. As the nation observed a

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Prince Harry settles with Murdoch’s British tabloids as trial is about to begin

Prince Harry has agreed to settle his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s British tabloids. The deal ends a years’ long battle to hold the newspapers accountable for invasions of privacy. (Image credit: Frank Augstein/AP)

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