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Protests Erupt in Iranian Cities After Woman’s Death in Custody

By Farnaz Fassihi | The New York Times

Antigovernment protests erupted in cities across Iran on Monday in response to a young woman’s death in the custody of the country’s morality police, with security forces firing on crowds in the northwest and killing four men, according to three Iran-focused human rights organizations.

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Separatist Regions Push to Join Russia as War Effort Falters

By David L. Stern | The Washington Post

Pro-Russian officials in the two self-declared separatist “republics” in eastern Ukraine pleaded Monday for urgent votes calling on Moscow to immediately annex the territories, a sign of apparent panic that the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine is failing.

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