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Netanyahu’s Rivals Raise Specter of Fourth Israeli Election — The Wall Street Journal

Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu might face anoth­er elec­tion after his oppo­nents vot­ed to dis­solve par­lia­ment. Pho­to: Alex Kolomoisky/Press Pool TEL AVIV—Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ben­jamin Netanyahu’s coali­tion part­ners with­drew their sup­port for the gov­ern­ment, rais­ing the pos­si­bil­i­ty that it could col­lapse and send the coun­try to a fourth elec­tion in less than two years. A preliminary…

Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Ivan Lam jailed — Associated Press

HONG KONG (AP) — Three promi­nent Hong Kong pro-democ­ra­cy activists were sen­tenced to prison Wednes­day for a protest out­side police head­quar­ters as author­i­ties stepped up a crack­down on oppo­si­tion to tight­en con­trol by Bei­jing over the ter­ri­to­ry. The activists —

Hundreds of fraudulent votes were discovered. Then a fat green parrot was elected. — The Washington Post

A plump, wad­dling par­rot has soared past its com­pe­ti­tion to claim vic­to­ry in New Zealand’s Bird of the Year con­test, a tense race marked by attempt­ed vot­er inter­fer­ence dur­ing a divi­sive month of cam­paign­ing. In what

Ethiopia: What We Know About the War in the Tigray Region — The Wall Street Journal

A mili­tia­man from Ethiopi­a’s Amhara region, which has been in con­flict with the neigh­bor­ing Tigray region. Pho­to: EDUARDO SOTERAS/Agence France-Presse/Get­­ty Images Long-sim­mer­ing ten­sions between Ethiopia’s fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and defi­ant author­i­ties in its north­ern Tigray region erupt­ed into mil­i­tary con­fronta­tion on Nov. 4 after the country’s prime min­is­ter, Abiy Ahmed, accused the Tigray People’s Lib­er­a­tion Front,…

China finds coronavirus on beef imported from Latin America, New Zealand — Fox News

Coro­n­avirus was report­ed­ly found on food prod­ucts and pack­ag­ing import­ed to Chi­na. The city of Jinan said it found the coro­n­avirus on beef and tripe the pack­ag­ing and on the meat itself from Brazil, Bolivia and New Zealand, Reuters report­ed. The

Peru Chooses 3rd President in a Week Amid Street Protests — The New York Times

On Mon­day, Peru’s leg­is­la­ture select­ed the country’s third pres­i­dent in a week, seek­ing to stanch grow­ing street protests over law­mak­ers’ deci­sion to remove a pop­u­lar pres­i­dent from office last week. But the deci­sion to name Fran­cis­co Sagasti, an engi­neer and academic