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With F.B.I. Search, U.S. Escalates Global Fight Over Chinese Police Outposts

Beijing says the outposts aren’t doing police work, but Chinese state media reports say they “collect intelligence” and solve crimes far outside their jurisdiction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/world/europe/china-outpost-new-york.html

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Death Toll in Peru Rises to 47 Amid Extraordinary Violence

In a matter of hours, at least 17 civilians and one police officer were killed in the chaos of demonstrations, according to the country’s ombudsman office, an extraordinary spasm of violence that complicated the new president’s attempt to stabilize the country.

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Wagner Group Shapes Russia’s Battle for a City in Ukraine: Live Updates

The small city of Soledar in eastern Ukraine has become a focal point of fierce fighting in recent days, part of a broader push in the Bakhmut area that Russia sees as important to achieving its goal of occupying all of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.

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Russia Fires Wave of Missiles Across Ukraine: Live Updates

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched dozens of missiles at Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Friday morning, knocking out heating systems in towns and cities across the country as temperatures dropped well below freezing and prompting the national utility to impose sweeping emergency blackouts.

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US to Expand Training for Ukrainian Forces: Russia-Ukraine Live Updates

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is expanding the training that the U.S. military provides to Ukrainian troops, with plans to more than double the number of forces it instructs at a base in Germany, according to two U.S. officials.

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Russia Targets Kyiv With Drones in Morning Attacks: Ukraine War News

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, before dawn on Wednesday, sending 13 Iranian-made drones from the Sea of Azov to the city, according to Ukrainian officials. All were destroyed by Ukrainian air defenses, they said, and there were no immediate reports of casualties.

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Despite Soaring Deaths in Somalia, Monitor Says It’s Not Yet a Famine. Some Object.

An official declaration of famine would unleash aid and attention. Some experts say Somalia shows that the international system for making the judgment is broken.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/world/africa/somalia-famine.html

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China’s Xi, in Saudi Arabia, Continues Re-Emergence From Isolation

He met with Saudi Arabia’s king and the leaders of Egypt, Tunisia, Kuwait and Sudan. He pledged to expand ports along the Red Sea, invest in petrochemicals and usher in a wave of Chinese tourism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/world/asia/china-gulf-us.html

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How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control

The market for commercial spyware — which allows governments to invade mobile phones and vacuum up data — is booming. Even the U.S. government is using it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/us/politics/spyware-nso-pegasus-paragon.html

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China Eases ‘Zero Covid’ Restrictions in Victory for Protesters

In a remarkable pivot, the Chinese government announced a broad rollback of those rules on Wednesday, an implicit concession to public discontent after mass street protests in late November posed the most widespread challenge to the ruling Communist Party in decades.