Myanmar military air strike kills dozens in Rakhine
NAYPYIDAW — Dozens of people were killed in an air strike by Myanmar's military government in the western state of Rakhine this week, the United Nations (UN) said, as the Southeast Asia nation's civil war nears its fourth year.

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Biden issues sweeping deportation protections before Trump takes office
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration Friday issued sweeping extensions of deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people from Sudan, Ukraine, El Salvador and Venezuela in a move that makes it almost impossible for President-elect Donald Trump to swiftly strip the benefit when he takes office.

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'Education apartheid': schooling in crisis in Pakistan
ABDULLAH GOTH — Aneesa Haroon drops off her tattered school bag at her rural home in Pakistan and hurriedly grabs lunch before joining her father in the fields to pick vegetables.

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No jail, no fine, but Trump is still guilty
NEW YORK - US President-elect Donald Trump called his criminal prosecution a &disgrace to the system& on Friday ahead of his sentencing for covering up hush money payments to a porn star.

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Germany reports foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo
BERLIN - Germany on Friday registered three cases of foot-and-mouth disease in water buffalo on a farm near Berlin, the country's first reported cases of the livestock disease since 1988.

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TikTok showdown reaches US Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — The future of the wildly popular social media platform TikTok rides on a US Supreme Court clash that pits national security against free speech — and one president against another.

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