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Many Jewish leaders are unnerved by the Iran nuclear deal and the public falling out between Obama and Netanyahu, developments that are creating a rift between Jews and Democrats in the run-up to 2016.
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The Pentagon has improved and tested the U.S. arsenal’s largest bunker-buster bomb, which could destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facilities should a nuclear deal fail and the White House order military action.
Second mass murder by Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab in 1.5 years came despite the government’s plan for a security revamp
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A real-estate revolution is sweeping Cuba as ordinary citizens are starting to buy and sell their homes.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials have called for investigations into allegations that Iraqi security forces were engaged in summary executions and looting soon after evicting Islamic State militants from the city.
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The weapons reinforced militias struggling to retake Aden from rebels.
The person at the controls of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps repeatedly sped up the plane during its descent, new data show.
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The arrests this week of women in New York and Philadelphia who prosecutors say were plotting terrorist attacks or trying to provide support to the Islamic State is focusing attention on jihadist efforts to recruit American women.
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China’s high-reaching anticorruption campaign is heading toward its next phase—prosecution—with the criminal indictment Friday of Zhou Yongkang, formerly one of the ruling Communist Party’s most senior officials.
A cartoonist known for lampooning Malaysia’s ruling coalition was charged with nine counts of sedition over a series of tweets criticizing the country’s judiciary system.
French lawmakers on Friday voted in favor of a law that would ban excessively thin fashion models from the runway and potentially fine their employers in a move that prompted resistance in the modeling industry.
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Turkey’s annual inflation rate rose to a three-month high in March amid soaring food prices and a weakening currency, diminishing hopes for central bank interest-rate cuts to stoke sagging economic growth.
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The U.S. private-equity firm is pouring cash into projects associated with two of Brazil’s most tarnished names—Petrobras and former tycoon Eike Batista.
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A U.S. geologist jailed in China for more than seven years after being convicted of trading in Chinese state secrets was released and deported to the U.S. on Friday, according to people close to the case.
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Authorities charged a Philadelphia woman with attempting to join Islamic State, the latest in a string of cases against Americans accused of conspiring to support the extremist group or carry out attacks on its behalf.
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European officials are escalating their scrutiny of companies including Facebook, Apple and Google in realms that span taxation, personal privacy and competition law.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron went head-to-head with his main political rival, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband, in the only televised debate ahead of Britain’s upcoming national election.
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Analysis: The tentative nuclear deal raises the prospect of a reshuffling of Iran’s place in the Middle East and beyond, which some fear could intensify regional conflicts, while others hope it might help resolve some
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Republican White House hopefuls were quick to condemn the emerging nuclear deal with Iran almost as soon as it was announced, arguing the pact will do little to prevent the Iranian regime from developing nuclear weapons.
The most radical element of Pope Francis’ papacy is his embrace of the liberalizing principles of Vatican II of the early 1960s. He is pushing to open the church to the modern world.
The Sacramento Kings made history on Wednesday night, signing Sim Bhullar, who became the first player of Indian descent on a regular-season NBA roster.
With Japan's cherry blossoms in full bloom, more foreigners than ever before are coming out to see the spectacle and join the party as the country looks to attract visitors from abroad.
A new class of hedge fund is betting that it can beat money managers by gathering data and placing rapid-fire bets to take advantage of hidden relationships between the information sets.
Eurozone officials love structural reforms, but a growing body of research shows they may reduce output in the short term.
A look at the news that made headlines this week in the archipelago.
Wolf sightings in Germany have made parents and shepherds anxious, but conservationists say an excessively literal reading of “Little Red Riding Hood” is fueling hysteria against the canine.
Essay: Officials didn’t lie, and I wasn’t fed a line, writes Judith Miller. There was no shortage of mistakes about Iraq, and I made my share of them. False narratives deserve, at last, to be retired, she writes.
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A brief history of postwar reconciliation, from Athens to Appomattox.
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The frescoes of the Cappella Nuova, by Luca Signorelli, influenced Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling.
In photos picked Friday by Wall Street Journal editors, a cartoonist in Malaysia is charged with sedition, Kenya mourns students killed in an Islamist attack, a man in Alabama is freed from death row and more.
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