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Indonesia’s top court begins hearing election appeals of 2 losing candidates who want a revote

By NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court began hearing appeals Wednesday lodged by two losing presidential candidates who are demanding a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls. The Feb. 14 presidential election results were announced March 20. The winner, Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, received

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Chinese workers killed in suicide bomb blast as Pakistan grapples with attacks on Beijing’s interests

By Sophia Saifi and Nectar Gan, CNN Islamabad (CNN) — Five Chinese workers and their local driver were killed in a suicide bomb blast in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest in a string of terror attacks that the South Asian country’s military and government say aims to disrupt Islamabad’s close ties with Beijing. Senior

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50 years after the former Yugoslavia protected abortion rights, that legacy is under threat

By DARKO BANDIC and JOVANA GEC Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia. The fierce debate has fueled divisions in the European Union

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‘Women farmers are invisible’: A West African project helps them claim their rights — and land

By JACK THOMPSON Associated Press ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal (AP) — Mariama Sonko’s voice resounded through the circle of 40 women farmers sitting in the shade of a cashew tree. They scribbled notes, brows furrowed in concentration as her lecture was punctuated by the thud of falling fruit. This quiet village in Senegal is the headquarters of

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Indonesia’s top court begins hearing election appeals of 2 losing candidates alleging fraud

By NINIEK KARMINI and FADLAN SYAM Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s top court began hearing appeals Wednesday against the presidential election results lodged by two losing candidates who allege widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls, demanding a revote. The Feb. 14 presidential election results were announced March 20. The winner, Defense Minister

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As those who fled Israel’s border villages weigh whether to return, what hangs in the balance?

By ADAM GELLER Associated Press KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel (AP) — Months after Hamas killed 1,200 people in an early-morning assault, Israeli communities ravaged in the attack remain mostly empty. Now the residents who fled these “kibbutzim” along the border with Gaza are wrestling with whether, how and when to return — choices that have

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