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Military and intelligence officials in Pakistan said the new U.S. strategy might worsen relations between the countries. And our bureau chief in Kabul examined how the enemy in Afghanistan, the Taliban, has evolved into a more tenacious foe.

Read what the other side thinks: We compiled the best writing from the right and left on Mr. Trumps speech. Above, a view in Bamiyan Province.

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3. The commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Adm. Scott H. Swift, above, confirmed that divers found the remains of missing American sailors in the flooded compartments of the Navy destroyer John S. McCain, which collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore.

The commander declined to say how many bodies had been located. Ten sailors had been missing since the accident.

A string of Navy accidents on the Pacifics western edge not only has raised doubts about its operations, but damaged U.S. prestige and added to fears from Asian allies about Washingtons commitment to the region.

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4. The Trump administration imposed new sanctions on China and Russia as part of its campaign to pressure North Korea to stop its development of nuclear weapons and missiles.

The new sanctions affect six individuals and 10 organizations with financial ties to Pyongyangs weapons program. We tried to answer a big question in the standoff: Can North Korea actually hit the U.S. with a nuclear weapon?

And an American soldier, James Joseph Dresnok, who defected to North Korea in 1962, died after living there for more than 50 years, two of his sons told a pro-North Korea website. Above, a military parade in Pyongyang in April.

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5. With talks over renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement underway, our economic columnist takes a look at a proposal from the U.S. labor movement: raising Mexican wages.

The A.F.L.-C.I.O. is demanding a living wage for Mexican workers that covers basics like food and housing, but also other essential needs, like saving for retirement. The union argues this would protect U.S. workers from unfair competition. While our writer calls the idea fairly loopy, the debate is just getting started.

Above, a protest against the deal in Mexico City earlier this month.

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6. Open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act starts Nov. 1.

But recruiters are already hard at work trying to persuade the uninsured to buy coverage through the law, which remains in effect despite Republicans best efforts to repeal it.

The uncertainty surrounding the law and the presidents continued attacks on it are making it much harder than in the past years to enroll new recipients.

This is going to be the heaviest lift we have ever tried to undertake, one health program coordinator said.

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7. A grisly development in the search for a missing Swedish journalist in the sea off Denmark: A womans torso was discovered in the water, and investigators are trying to identify the remains.

Theres fear that its Kim Wall, who vanished after boarding the self-designed submarine of a Danish inventor, Peter Madsen, on Aug. 10.

Mr. Madsen, above, a celebrated figure with a reputation as ill-tempered, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. He first said he dropped her at port, but then changed his story to say that she died in an accident on board his ship and that he buried her at sea.

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8. Join us on a visit to the M.N. Rumyantsev State School of Circus and Variety Arts, created in 1927 by the Soviet Peoples Commissariat of Education.

Its a real four-year college, with 180 students who attend free. At the final performance of the semester, they displayed hair-raising feats of flight and balance.

It is a blast of emotion, one acrobat said. You give to people, and they give back to you, and it is such a joy.

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9. The depths of the ocean are a lot brighter than you might think.

Scientists are finding that bioluminescence is so common in the oceans that it is one of Earths dominant traits.

The deep sea, of course, is the planets largest habitat. Scientists say that creatures there use light much as animals on land use sound to lure, intimidate, stun, mislead and find mates.

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10. Finally, of course he looked.

That was President Trump, peeking up at the sun during the eclipse without protective glasses. He did it after they told him not to, Conan OBrien said. So afterwards, everyone started advising him: Whatever you do, dont resign.

Another photo getting lots of shares this week: an Instagram post by Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, in which she described her designer outfit in hashtags, then mocked a commenter.

She became, you might say, a Real Housewife of the Treasury.

Have a great night.

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