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Late afternoon at Echo beach in Bali, Indonesia, March 23, 2023. After multiple accounts of tourists behaving badly, the governor of the tropical paradise with a welcoming reputation wants Russia and Ukraine to lose access to Indonesia’s visa-on-arrival program. (Nyimas Laula/The New York Times) XNYT78

A Refuge for Russians and Ukrainians, Bali Rethinks Its Open-Door Policy

The Indonesian island has welcomed Ukrainians fleeing the shelling and Russians dodging the draft, but bad behavior and rule violations are testing that welcome.

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Josie Nixon is a transgender woman who works as a full-time LGBTQ advocate in Denver. (MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Amanda Lopez)

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Francisco Antonio López Benavides, a Salvadoran artist, showing part of a life-size portrait of former President Donald Trump that he was commissioned to paint in 2020, in his home studio in Chinameca, El Salvador on March 20, 2023. The portrait is one of several gifts to the presidential family that is now unaccounted for. (Daniele Volpe/The New York Times) XNYT93 XNYT93

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That missing Trump portrait? Found, next to some old yoga mats.

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FILE–The Treasury Department unveiled in Washington the new version of the $50 bill in this file photo from June 1997. The bills aimed at preventing counterfeiting, feature a larger portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, a security thread and color shifting ink in the numeral on the lower-right corner of the bill. An estimated 30 million copies of the redesigned $50 bill is being withheld from circulation because of a tiny printing flaw, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, Sept. 24, 1997. A decision hasn’t been made yet whether to destroy the flawed bills, which cost $1.44 million to produce, or put them into circulation later. (AP Photo/Treasury Department)

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Haitian migrant Gerson Solay, 28, carries his daughter, Bianca, as he and his family cross into Canada at the non-official Roxham Road border crossing north of Champlain, N.Y., on Friday, March 24, 2023. A new US-Canadian migration agreement closes a loophole that has allowed migrants who enter Canada away from official border posts to stay in the country while awaiting an asylum decision. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali) NYHJ102 NYHJ102

US, Canada end loophole that let asylum-seekers cross border VIEW

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FILE – Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda” and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday Feb. 26, 2021. Rwanda’s government has commuted the sentence of Paul Rusesabagina was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press on Friday, March 24, 2023, that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File) RWA101 RWA101

Rwanda frees Paul Rusesabagina, inspiration for ‘Hotel Rwanda,’ U.S. says

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Eric Kilburn Jr., 14, of Goodrich, Mich., is 6-foot-10 and wears a size 23 shoe. He only has a size 22, and his family has been unable to find a larger size. MUST CREDIT: Rebecca Kilburn

Teen couldn’t find shoes for his size 23 feet. Strangers gave him money for a custom pair. VIEW