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Our World is a roundup from our weekly print edition of noteworthy happenings, from our global correspondents and editors.

Every week, a selection of Monitor staffers and contributors share their challenges and insights from reporting around the globe.

Chad Harbach’s first novel, “The Art of Fielding,” arrived in 2011 with a fanfare of publicity and a flurry of plaudits. Amid the hoopla, readers learned of the book’s checkered history.…

The victory of leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil to an unprecedented fourth term shows shows the limits of Latin America’s lurch to the right.

Germans once again have to decide what they should do with Nazi-era relics after a fire destroyed the Bavarian guest house linked to Adolf Hitler.

The close Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton in Texas has unsettled conservatives used to three decades of statewide political dominance.

Exiled Nobel laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela for the first time since December and is testing the U.S.-backed government.