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Can Reform U.K. Be More Than a Vessel for Rage?

Much of the British political class laughed at Nigel Farage in 2016. It isn’t laughing now.

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Attendees at a Reform U.K. rally in Birmingham, England, in March.
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A Contender for the Papacy in the Mold of Francis

Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines is known as the “Asian Francis.” But he has been criticized for not being vocal enough about his country’s brutal drug war and clerical sex abuse.

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Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines is on many unofficial short lists of “papabile” cardinals, or those with a good shot at succeeding the ailing Pope Francis.
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Trump’s Tariffs Put China’s E-Commerce Superpowers to the Test

Companies like Alibaba that built China’s world-leading online shopping sector are now helping its sellers find markets beyond the United States.

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Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou, China, in February. China’s success at e-commerce has become a key feature of the country’s broader economic rise.
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Mexico to Give U.S. More Water From Their Shared Rivers

A joint agreement appeared to avert a threat by President Trump of tariffs and sanctions in a long-running dispute over water rights in the border region.

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The Morelos Dam, in Los Algodones, Mexico, diverts water to the Mexicali Valley from the Colorado, one of three rivers shared with the United States under a 1944 treaty.
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Spain and Portugal scramble to restore electricity after a still-unexplained power outage

Officials in Spain and Portugal are racing to restore electricity after a huge power outage that grounded flights, paralyzed metro systems, disrupted mobile communications and shut down ATMs, upending the lives of tens of millions of people and turning airports and train stations into campgrounds for stranded travelers

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AP PHOTOS: Documenting the fall of Saigon in photos

In the morning of April 29, 1975, a massive evacuation exercise began in Saigon, which ended almost 24 hours later. About 6,500 people had been airlifted by the end of the exercise, including nearly 900 Americans. Hours later, on April 30, Saigon fell, and with it came the end of the Vietnam War.

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