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  • Pakistan Points Finger at India Over Suicide Blast

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    Pakistan blamed India-backed militants for a suicide bombing that killed 12 people in Islamabad on Tuesday, raising the prospect of renewed tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals, as India’s prime minister vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of a car explosion in New Delhi the day before.

    A blast on Monday near a metro station by New Delhi’s historic Red Fort set several nearby cars on fire, killed eight and injured at least 20 others, Indian police said. The car had three or four passengers, all of whom died in the explosion, said police, who haven’t determined the cause of the blast.

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  • Alaska’s New Mining Rush Chases Something More Coveted Than Gold

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    ESTER, Alaska—At a mining site here, Rod Blakestad cracked open a shiny rock with his pick. He found quartz, a sign that the rock may contain gold.

    But Blakestad, a veteran gold hunter, tossed the rock aside. He and his team of geologists were searching for something even more sought-after: antimony, an obscure element widely used in the defense industry that is now at the center of the bitter U.S.-China trade fight.

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  • Iraq’s Leader Seeks an Improbable Prize: Independence From the U.S. and Iran

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    Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is running for re-election Tuesday after managing to keep his country out of the region’s recent conflicts.

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  • Opinion | Will Israel Do Lebanon’s Dirty Work?

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    Trump loses patience as Beirut fails to disarm Hezbollah terrorists.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | The ‘Human Right’ to Smoke in Prison

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    If you want to see what a “living constitution” looks like, go to Europe. On Tuesday, in Vainik v. Estonia, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that four longtime prisoners in Estonia were due restitution from the state for “weight gain, sleeping problems, depression, and anxiety” caused by not being allowed to smoke in prison.

    The decision was grounded on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The text of Article 8 doesn’t mention any right to enjoy a cigarette whenever one pleases. Rather, it protects a broad “right to private life,” which the court accused Estonia of violating in the Vainik case. “The Court,” the judges wrote, “was sensitive to the context of the already limited personal autonomy of prisoners, and that the freedom for them to decide for themselves—such as whether to smoke—was all the more precious.” An odd ruling, but perhaps Europe loves its cigarettes that much?

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  • Opinion | The Brains Behind Ukraine’s Pink Flamingo Cruise Missile

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    Kyiv, Ukraine

    If politics makes strange bedfellows, war sometimes makes strange career paths. In her 20s, Iryna Terekh was a “very artsy” architect who viewed the arms industry as “something destructive.” Now Ms. Terekh, 33, is chief technical officer and the public face of Fire Point, a Ukrainian defense company. She and her team developed the Flamingo, a long-range cruise missile that President Volodymyr Zelensky has called “our most successful missile.”

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    Jillian Kay Melchior

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  • Opinion | Evangelical Support for Israel Is About More Than Theology

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    Tucker Carlson calls it a ‘heresy,’ but it’s rooted in a belief that freedom and faith are inseparable.

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    Ralph Reed

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  • Another U.S. Attempt to Topple Maduro Would Be a Disaster

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    The U.S. appears to be preparing to attack my country. That’s a sentence nobody wants to write. For us Venezuelans, though, it’s especially bitter. For years, we looked to the U.S. to support our fledgling democracy movement against an authoritarian government happy to rewrite history to suit its political convenience. Now, in a bizarre twist of fate, our country faces an attack by an authoritarian American government that is happy to rewrite our history to suit its own political convenience.

    Though President Trump has said in recent days that he doubts the U.S. will go to war with Venezuela, the American military buildup is ongoing, and The Wall Street Journal and other sources have reported on the Pentagon’s efforts to select targets in the country. Trump has said again and again that he is going after Nicolás Maduro because the dictator emptied out Venezuela’s prisons as part of a sinister plan to flood U.S. streets with drug dealers.

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  • Chips Held Hostage in Trade War Start Flowing Again to Auto Suppliers

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    Nexperia microchips are leaving China again, easing a shortage of simple but ubiquitous parts that threatened to paralyze the auto industry.

    German automotive supplier Aumovio, which was recently spun out of tire giant Continental, said Friday that the Sino-Dutch company’s semiconductors and components containing them were on their way from China to Aumovio’s distribution hub in Hungary.

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    Stephen Wilmot

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  • Trump Administration Blocks Gunvor Takeover of Russian Oil Assets

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    Gunvor pulled its offer to buy the international assets of sanctioned Russian oil producer Lukoil after the U.S. Treasury Department said it opposed the deal and called the Swiss commodities trader the “Kremlin’s puppet.”

    The move signals the Trump administration is taking a hard-line approach in its recently launched effort to use economic pressure on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.

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  • New Aircraft Carrier Advances China’s Naval Power

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    Leader Xi Jinping marked a step in his mission to modernize the nation’s military.

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    Chun Han Wong

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  • Opinion | When Irish Eyes Are Glaring

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    Tensions with the U.S. will heighten under the new left-wing president.

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    Robert C. O’Brien

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  • Opinion | Trump Changed the Stakes in the Middle East

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    In the 77 years since the formation of the Jewish state, and for the 2,000 years since the destruction of the Second Temple, the West has understood peace in the Middle East—peace between Arabs and Jews—as impossible.

    Semantically, the “Peace Process” was the continuing enjoyment of a process which could be ended only by peace. What, then, have the West, the world and the United Nations been doing in regard to the Mideast since 1948?

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    David Mamet

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  • Opinion | A German Lesson for the Heritage Foundation

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    In the 1980s, the CDU kept neo-Nazis down by accepting all legitimate conservative views.

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    Joseph C. Sternberg

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  • Louvre Skimped on Security to Spend on Art in Years Before Heist, Says Auditor

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    PARIS—France’s state auditor issued a searing assessment of the Louvre Museum’s finances on Thursday, alleging its management prioritized the acquisition of new artworks over the maintenance and security of its existing collection.

    The auditor released its 153-page report after a team of thieves used low-tech methods to break into the museum last month and steal France’s crown jewels, drawing attention to the Louvre’s porous security.

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    Noemie Bisserbe

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  • Hundreds of Hamas Fighters Are Stuck in Tunnels in Israeli-Controlled Gaza

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    A detachment of Israeli engineering troops was demolishing tunnels behind the withdrawal line in Gaza last month when Hamas militants sprang from a hidden shaft, fired an antitank missile toward their excavator and killed two soldiers.

    A little over a week earlier, Israel and Hamas had agreed to a cease-fire. Israel responded to the deadly encounter with a round of airstrikes on Gaza that killed dozens of people.

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  • Trump Expresses Reservations Over Strikes in Venezuela to Top Aides

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    WASHINGTON—President Trump has recently expressed reservations to top aides about launching military action to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, fearing that strikes might not compel the autocrat to step down, according to U.S. officials familiar with the deliberations.

    The debate underscores that the administration’s Venezuela strategy remains in flux, despite a buildup of military forces in the region and public threats by Trump to launch attacks.

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  • Bank of Canada Gov. Macklem Tells Lawmakers Rate Policy at ‘Right’ Level

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    OTTAWA—Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem told lawmakers Wednesday that central-bank policymakers believe the current rate policy appears appropriate to balance inflation risks while providing the economy with support.

    His opening remarks before the Canadian legislature’s finance committee largely mirrored his comments when announcing a quarter-point cut last week, taking the benchmark interest rate to 2.25%—or 2.75 percentage points lower over a 16-month period.

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    Paul Vieira

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  • Putin Paves Way to Resume Nuclear Testing as Tensions Flare With Trump

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    Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his top security officials to draw up plans for potential nuclear weapons testing should President Trump follow through on his suggestions that the U.S. resume testing its nuclear arsenal, in a fresh sign of the faltering relationship between the two leaders.

    While the threats from each side are likely still tools for political signaling at this stage, if either Washington or Moscow pushes ahead with testing it would raise nuclear tensions to levels unseen since the peak of the Cold War.

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  • France to Suspend Shein Sales After Finding Childlike Sex Dolls

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    The French government moved to temporarily suspend Shein’s website after authorities discovered sex dolls resembling children were being sold on its platform.

    The French finance ministry said Wednesday that it had begun the process to suspend Shein for “the time necessary for the platform to demonstrate” it has scrubbed its site of illegal products.

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    Chelsey Dulaney

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