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A Pakistani health worker chants slogans during a demonstration against the killings of her colleagues in Karachi Wednesday.

Globe Trot: Pakistan shootings, Church growth, heightened security around the world …

International |  In another shooting by suspected Islamists in Karachi, five female health workers vaccinating children against polio have been killed in Pakistan. Masked men…

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (left) meets with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Sunday.

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International |  Calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza are generally useless if pertinent issues aren’t on the table (witness Syria). And here’s what’s emerging:

Moscow church destroyed
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Wreckage by night

Russia |  Destruction of a Moscow church is a new sign of Putin-era repression

Biden and Lugar's Moscow Nights

Biden and Lugar's Moscow Nights

Russia |  President Obama seems to have weathered the storm of criticism that arose over his whispering to Dmitri Medvedev during the nuclear summit in Seoul. Mr. Obama…

Obama unleashed

Obama unleashed

Politics |  Politicians and presidents of both parties have occasionally suffered from open-mic syndrome, saying something when they thought the microphone was turned off…

Old days are here again
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Old days are here again

Russia |  It's not like the communist era, but Russia and its former satellites are restricting religious practice again

Crime scene
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Crime scene

Russia |  U.S.-Russia relations aren't taking into account Moscow's growing number of mysterious murders

Crime and punishment
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Crime and punishment

Russia |  An American pastor goes to jail in Moscow

A war for souls
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A war for souls

Russia |  Recent elections and ongoing restrictions only point to the deeper conflict tearing at Russian life

Russian roller coaster
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Russian roller coaster

Russia |  The first elected president in Russian history, Boris Yeltsin took his country from corrupt hard-line rule to euphoric freedom and back again

Bully bear
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Bully bear

Russia |  Western Europeans fume at Putin's use of energy as a political weapon

Keeping tabs
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Keeping tabs

Russia |  Clamping down on "foreign" influences, the Kremlin forces churches to report attendance and even cash donations

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