Asia
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India’s Partition: A History in Photos
Polarized by religion, friends and neighbors turned on each other. Hundreds of thousands were killed and millions displaced. The atrocities…
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Your Monday Briefing: U.S. Lawmakers Visit Taiwan
Good morning. We’re covering a visit by U.S. lawmakers to Taiwan and Salman Rushdie’s road to recovery. More U.S. lawmakers…
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Five U.S. Lawmakers Arrive in Taiwan Amid Tensions With China
After the visit, Beijing fired five missiles into waters that are part of Japan’s exclusive economic zone, a warning to…
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Japanese Photographer Blows Whistle on Treatment of ‘Comfort Women’
GWANGJU, South Korea — Since 2000, Tsukasa Yajima has taken stark, poignant portraits of former sex slaves for Japan’s World…
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Survivors of Partition Seek Closure Through an Unlikely Source: YouTube
FAISALABAD, Pakistan — Nasir Dhillon, a former policeman, sells houses in a Pakistani city about 100 miles from the Indian…
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Rushdie Attack Recalls 1991 Killing of His Japanese Translator
TOKYO — The attack on Salman Rushdie in western New York State on Friday prompted renewed interest in previous attacks…
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‘Regimes Like the Taliban That Impose Themselves on Nations Will Not Last Long’
Omar Ahmadi, 26 I was born in 1996 during the dark days of the Taliban’s first regime in Afghanistan. My…
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‘I Plan to Encourage and Inspire Women With My Success’
Marwa Rahim, 22 I was born in war, I grew up in war, and I went to school in war.…
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‘In the United States, I Feel Optimistic’
Samira Rustami, 20 I was born in Kabul, instantly disadvantaged because of my gender and caste. Repeatedly, I was reminded…
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‘My School Had No Chairs, No Blackboards, No Books’
Mursal Rahim, 26 I was born in 1996 in Kunduz, a small city in the north of Afghanistan, when the…
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