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Iowa caucuses begin the long, slow US election
News, New York Times, Published on 01/02/2016
» The presidential race hurtled over the weekend toward a watershed moment: voting that will start to reveal the true depth of Americans' desire to cast aside traditional politicians and Washington-style compromise and embrace disruptive outsiders appealing to their passions.
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As more refugees arrive, altruism fades
News, New York Times, Published on 09/02/2016
» When the Syrian refugees first started streaming into Jordan's Ramtha, a bedraggled border town, Gassim al-Moghrebi was their tireless benefactor, distributing donations of food, money and clothes and sheltering as many as possible in two apartments he owned.
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Pyongyang rocket shapes regional relations
News, New York Times, Published on 12/02/2016
» When China's leader, Xi Jinping, visited the United States' firm ally South Korea in 2014, it seemed to be the beginning of a promising courtship.
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Trump's heated words destined to stir violence
News, New York Times, Published on 14/03/2016
» In foreboding conversations across the political world this past year, a bipartisan chorus warned that the 2016 presidential campaign was teetering on the edge of violence.
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Smuggled mobile phones become lifeline to outside world
News, New York Times, Published on 28/03/2016
» The man drove Ju Chan-yang to a mountain overlooking North Korea's border with China. He looked around, making sure they were alone. Then he dialled his Chinese cellphone and handed it to her.
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Venezuelans reveal depth of hunger
News, New York Times, Published on 21/06/2016
» With delivery trucks under constant attack, the nation's food is now transported under armed guard. Soldiers stand watch over bakeries. The police fire rubber bullets at desperate mobs storming grocery stores, pharmacies and butcher shops. A 4-year-old girl was shot to death as street gangs fought over food.
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Cameron's reckless bluff put himself into political hot water
News, New York Times, Published on 23/06/2016
» David Cameron, the British prime minister, has no one to blame but himself.
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Unauthorised immigrants cautious after Supreme Court ruling
News, New York Times, Published on 28/06/2016
» Karina Ruiz and other protesters blocked a busy road in Phoenix, Arizona, last week hours after the Supreme Court denied relief from deportation for millions of unauthorised parents, including her father.
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Rising sea shocks Pacific's Kiribati
News, New York Times, Published on 04/07/2016
» One clear bright day last winter, a tidal surge swept over an ocean embankment here in the remote, low-lying island country of Kiribati, smashing through the doors and windows of Betio Hospital and spewing sand and debris across its maternity ward.
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Turkey unlikely victim of unlikely coup
News, New York Times, Published on 18/07/2016
» If the attempted coup in Turkey came as a surprise, there was good reason: The event went against decades of research on how, when and why coups happen.
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