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Trump Becomes the Wild Card in Razor-Thin Honduras Election

President Trump warned that if his favored candidate didn’t win, the United States would “not be throwing good money after bad” at the country.

© Daniele Volpe for The New York Times

A campaign poster for Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate backed by President Trump, last month on a street in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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Russian Launch Site Mishap Leaves Country’s Space Program in Limbo

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

© Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters

A Soyuz spacecraft launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Nov. 27. The rocket itself headed to space without problem, but the rocket’s exhaust knocked a service platform out of its protective shelter.
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