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Politics
First evacuation flight brings 221 Afghans, many kids, to US
The launch of the evacuation flights, bringing out former interpreters and others who fear retaliation from Afghanistan’s Taliban for having worked with American troops and civilians, highlights American uncertainty about how Afghanistan’s government and military will fare after the last US combat forces leave that country in the coming weeks. Continue reading →
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World
Rights groups warn assaults on women on the rise in Pakistan
The gruesome death of 27-year-old Noor Mukadam last week in an upscale neighborhood of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, is the latest in a series of attacks on women in Pakistan, where rights activists say such gender-based assaults are on the rise as the country barrels toward greater religious extremism. Continue reading →
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Obituaries
Ruth Pearl, seeker of justice for her murdered journalist son Daniel, dies at 85
Originally from Iraq, a member of the Jewish community that had existed there for centuries, Ruth Pearl survived a deadly attack on the Jews of Baghdad in 1941, a pogrom known as the Farhud that sprang in part from the antisemitism coursing across Nazi Europe. She drew a link between the ideology that helped bring about the Farhud and the religious extremism that drove the men who kidnapped and killed her son decades later. Continue reading →
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