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World http://www.washingtonpost.com/pb/world/ en-US hourly 1 <![CDATA[Hong Kong tears down ‘Pillar of Shame’ sculpture honoring Tiananmen victims]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:34:24 EST <![CDATA[Madagascar’s police minister survives helicopter crash, swims 12 hours to shore ]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:12:46 EST <![CDATA[Real-world data from U.K. suggests omicron is less likely than delta to send people to the hospital]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:54:00 EST <![CDATA[Australia brings animal cruelty charges in mass koala deaths ]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:52:30 EST <![CDATA[Libya postpones presidential election at last minute amid renewed threat of civil unrest]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 02:58:12 EST <![CDATA[South Africa’s huge omicron wave appears to be subsiding just as quickly as it grew]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 02:44:56 EST <![CDATA[With Russian troops massing on the border, Ukraine’s Zelensky focuses instead on internal foes]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 02:30:31 EST <![CDATA[Once demonized, capitalist-style banking could be the future for socialist North Korea’s economy]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:00:00 EST <![CDATA[U.S. moves to expand Afghan aid in hopes of easing humanitarian crisis]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Mexico’s wheat fields help feed the world. They’re also releasing a dangerous greenhouse gas.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:10:56 EST <![CDATA[AstraZeneca and Oxford making version of coronavirus vaccine that targets omicron]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:37:26 EST <![CDATA[While omicron explodes around the world, covid cases in Japan keep plummeting and no one knows exactly why ]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:56:24 EST <![CDATA[One person caught the coronavirus. China locked down 200,000 of their neighbors.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:16:17 EST <![CDATA[She escaped child marriage twice. Now she’s trying to save other girls from pandemic suitors.]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 05:00:39 EST <![CDATA[A dinosaur embryo, exceptionally preserved in an egg about to hatch, reveals links to birds]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:37:13 EST <![CDATA[Israel says it will become first nation to offer fourth coronavirus vaccine dose: ‘The world will follow us’]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:04:22 EST <![CDATA[On volatile border between India and China, a high-altitude military buildup is underway]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 04:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Chile’s millennial president-elect is a sign of a very different ‘pink tide’]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 12:00:43 EST <![CDATA[Dubai princess gets record $720 million divorce payout ]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2021 03:20:27 EST <![CDATA[Three death row inmates hanged in Japan in first executions since 2019]]> Tue, 21 Dec 2021 12:37:27 EST

<![CDATA[China orders lockdown of up to 13 million people in Xi'an]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 08:26:22 EST <![CDATA[Australian state sees major spike in cases, hospitalization]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:16:56 EST <![CDATA[6.0 quake hits off Mexico's Pacific coast; no damage reports]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:15:15 EST <![CDATA[US designates 3 men in Brazil as affiliated with al-Qaida]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:30:55 EST <![CDATA[Spain to adopt mask-wearing outdoors amid record virus surge]]> Wed, 22 Dec 2021 05:46:54 EST