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      Britons Pause to Vote in an Election Many Did Not Want

      But voting for the European Parliament was an ideal way to cast protest ballots against the Tories and Labour, they said. Both parties seemed headed to humiliating defeat.

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    Botswana Ends Ban on Elephant Hunting

    Botswana has the world’s largest population of African elephants, and the decision to lift a five-year prohibition on hunting drew an international backlash.

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    How Modi Tried to Use a Religious Crisis to Win Votes

    Our reporter Jeffrey Gettleman traveled to Kerala to see how Prime Minister Narendra Modi used a controversy at one of India’s holiest shrines to win another five-year term.

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    Basketball Is ‘War, Minus the Shooting’ in Sectarian Lebanon

    The professional basketball season resembles an election campaign, with party colors adorning team jerseys and banners of political patrons hanging in stadiums. Then there are the insults and riots.

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    A Mennonite Town in Muslim Central Asia Holds On Against the Odds

    A community of Mennonites in Kyrgyzstan is one of Christendom’s most remote and oddest outposts in the Muslim world, as ethnic Germans cling to their faith even as emigration shrinks their numbers.

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    Colombia Army’s New Kill Orders Send Chills Down Ranks

    Senior officers told The Times that soldiers are under intense pressure to defeat rebel groups and that a pattern of suspicious killings and cover-ups has begun to emerge this year.

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