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Putin, Addressing Russia, Warns West Not to Cross Red Line: Live Updates
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John
on April 2021
War, Peace and Taliban Spreadsheets
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John
on April 2021
Iran Rattled as Israel Repeatedly Strikes Key Targets
Recent security breaches in Iran have some officials calling for an overhaul of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, whose intelligence wing is responsible for guarding nuclear sites and scientists.
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John
on April 2021
90-Year-Old Hong Kong Woman Robbed of $33 Million in Phone Scam
Phone scams have spiked in Hong Kong since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
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John
on April 2021
South Korean Court Sides With Japan in Wartime Sexual Slavery Case
A statue symbolizing a wartime sex slave near the Japanese Embassy in Seoul on Wednesday.
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John
on April 2021
A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has Arrived
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John
on April 2021
Putin Warns Biden in Speech
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a concert last month marking the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea.
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John
on April 2021
President Moon Jae-in Urges Biden to Negotiate With North Korea
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John
on April 2021
Caving to Islamists, Pakistan’s Parliament Debates Expelling French Ambassador
Supporters of Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan, a militant Islamist party, at a protest in Lahore on Tuesday.
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John
on April 2021
Johnson & Johnson to Resume European Union Vaccine Rollout
Waiting for vaccinations in Riga, Latvia, last week.
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John
on April 2021
Quebec’s Ban on Public Religious Symbols Largely Upheld
Protesters entered the Montreal metro with face coverings in protest of Quebec’s religious neutrality law in 2017.
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John
on April 2021
Idriss Déby, President of Chad, Dies After Clashes With Rebels
President Idriss Déby of Chad in 2018. He enjoyed the support of France and the United States because his military forces were seen as key to battling Islamist extremism in the central Sahel region.
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John
on April 2021
Idriss Déby Dies at 68; Poor Herder’s Son Became Chad’s Longtime Autocrat
Idriss Déby in 2018.
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John
on April 2021
In Ireland, a Grocery Chain Addresses ‘Period Poverty’ With Free Products
A Lidl supermarket in Dublin last month.
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John
on April 2021
A Very Rare Conviction
Reactions to the guilty verdict at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis.
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John
on April 2021
Antibody rates among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are double those of others, new estimates show.
At a coronavirus testing site in Harlem last year.
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John
on April 2021
A New Bird Flu Jumps to Humans. So Far, It's Not a Problem
Health workers culled ducks from a farm in Kerala State, India, in January, after a strain of the H5N8 bird flu was detected in the area.
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John
on April 2021
Your Wednesday Briefing
People celebrate the guilty verdict at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis.
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John
on April 2021
Coal Is Set to Roar Back, and So Are Its Climate Risks
Workers unloaded coal from a cargo ship in Gabtoli, Bangladesh, in 2019.
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John
on April 2021
U.N. Presses Dubai on Fate of Princess Latifa
An image from a video released in February in which Sheikha Latifa said she feared for her life.
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John
on April 2021
Chancellor’s Race Presents Germans With a Challenge to Change
The Chancellery in Berlin is seen at night in February.
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John
on April 2021
Your Wednesday Briefing
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John
on April 2021
In a Charged Environment, France Tackles Its Model of Secularism
President Emmanuel Macron in Montpellier on Monday.
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John
on April 2021
Journalist Absar Alam Shot After Criticizing Pakistan Military
Absar Alam in 2016, when he was chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority in Islamabad.
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John
on April 2021
After a Tragedy at Sea, a Wrecked Ship Becomes a Powerful Symbol in Italy
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John
on April 2021
Dementia Risk After Age 50 Increases With Less Sleep, Study Says
The study followed nearly 8,000 people in Britain for about 25 years, beginning when they were 50 years old.
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John
on April 2021
On the Menu at a Lunch in Italy: Protected Songbirds
Bramblings in flight. An official who wants to remove protections for some songbirds called the species “a delicacy.”
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John
on April 2021
Can Policing Change?
Police and protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minn., this month.
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John
on April 2021
Finland Is Again the World's Happiest Country, Report Finds
Soaking in the sun in Helsinki in February.
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John
on April 2021
Alarm in Ukraine as Russian Forces Mass at Border
Ukrainian soldiers north of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, on Friday. Moscow has used the pretext of a separatist conflict to pressure the country after its Westward-looking revolution.
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John
on April 2021
Your Tuesday Briefing
Family fills out medical forms prior to receiving their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine in Dearborn, Mich.,on Friday, April 16, 2021.
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John
on April 2021
U.N. Reports Surge of Migrant Children Entering Mexico, Destined for U.S.
Migrant children from Central America at a shelter for unaccompanied minors in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in March.
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John
on April 2021
Handful of Unconfirmed Reports Are Being Examined After J.&J. Pause
Containers of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine in Bay Shore, N.Y., in March.
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John
on April 2021
A confused federal effort to retrieve Americans overseas in the initial outbreak led to safety risks, a new report says.
Americans arriving from Wuhan, China, disembarked from a State Department-chartered plane to board buses at March Air Reserve Base near Los Angeles in January 2020.
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John
on April 2021
Your Tuesday Briefing
Patients with breathing problems inside an ambulance waiting to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday.
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John
on April 2021
Emergent BioSolutions halts operations at its Baltimore plant, where J.&J. doses were ruined, at the F.D.A.’s request.
Emergent has a federal contract to produce Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine.
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John
on April 2021
France Enabled 1994 Rwanda Genocide, Report Says
Photographs of victims of the 1994 genocide at the Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, this month.
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John
on April 2021
Israel plans a testing program to let children go where the vaccinated can.
A teenager receiving a vaccination in Tel Aviv, Israel, in January. No coronavirus vaccine has yet been authorized for people under 16.
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John
on April 2021
Looted Objects From Afghanistan Are Returned
A bronze mask of Silenus, circa 2nd Century, was among the objects handed over to Afghanistan in a ceremony on Monday.
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John
on April 2021
‘Follow the Party Forever’: China Plans a Communist Birthday Bash
A poster in Beijing advertises the film “Sacrifice,” one of several propaganda films that has been shown in theatres nationwide ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s centenary.
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John
on April 2021
Greece relaxes some quarantine rules as it prepares to welcome back tourists.
A group of Dutch visitors stayed in isolation at a resort hotel in Rhodes, Greece, last week, as part of a trial for the reopening of tourism.
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John
on April 2021
In effort to block variants, Hong Kong bans flights from three countries and empties an apartment block.
Airport staff members lining up to collect coronavirus testing kits at Hong Kong International Airport in February.
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John
on April 2021
U.N. Panel Is Scathing in Its Criticism of a British Report on Race
A protest outside Downing Street during a Black Lives Matter march in London in 2020.
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John
on April 2021
Delhi Locks Down as Virus Surges Again in India
Patients with breathing problems inside an ambulance waiting to enter a Covid-19 hospital in Ahmedabad, India, on Monday.
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John
on April 2021
Australia and New Zealand Begin Travel Bubble, Reuniting Families
Travelers from New Zealand are welcomed at Sydney International Airport on Monday.
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John
on April 2021
Aleksei Navalny Is Transferred to Hospital for Vitamin Treatment
Aleksei A. Navalny at a court hearing in Moscow in February. His personal doctors have reported that he is suffering from severe symptoms they call life-threatening.
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John
on April 2021
Irrational Covid Fears
Traffic in Los Angeles.
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John
on April 2021
German Greens and Conservatives Choose Chancellor Candidates
Annalena Baerbock was named by Germany’s Greens on Monday as their candidate for chancellor.
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John
on April 2021
New York spent $1.5 billion on its convention center. Will anyone come?
Construction workers at the Javits Center in New York this month.
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John
on April 2021
Wildfire Deals Hard Blow to South Africa’s Archives
By Sunday evening, a special-collections reading room at the university’s library had been gutted by the blaze, according to officials.
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John
on April 2021
All U.S. States Have Met Biden's Vaccine Expansion Deadline
A mass vaccination event for teachers at Carteret High School in Carteret, N.J., this month.
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John
on April 2021
Fleeing a Modern War, Syrians Seek Refuge in Ancient Ruins
Children playing among the ruins at the archaeological site of al-Kfeir, in Syria’s northwest.
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John
on April 2021
A Cuba Without a Castro? A Country Steps Into the Unknown.
Fidel Castro, then president of Cuba, and his brother Raúl, then vice president, in Havana in 1978.
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John
on April 2021
The Quiet Arms Race Between North and South Korea is Heating Up
South Korea’s Hyunmoo-2 missile launch at an undisclosed location in 2017.
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John
on April 2021
Russia Expels 20 Czech Diplomats as Tensions Escalate
Police officers detained a pro-Russian demonstrator as protesters gathered in front of the Russian Embassy in Prague on Sunday.
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John
on April 2021
Train Crash in Egypt Kills at Least 11
A crane lifted an overturned railcar on Sunday after the crash of a train heading north from Cairo.
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John
on April 2021
France Will Quarantine Travelers From Four Countries
A passenger at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle International Airport, north of Paris, in January.
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John
on April 2021
Colorado Officials Warn About Fourth Wave of Covid Infections
Health officials say the uptick in Colorado has been fueled in part by the spread of more contagious variants, particularly B.1.1.7.
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John
on April 2021
Marie Supikova, Survivor of Nazi Terror in Czech Village, Dies at 88
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John
on April 2021
Pope Francis Delivers Sunday Blessing in Person After a Month
For the first time in a month, Pope Francis led his Sunday blessing from the window of his office overlooking Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
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John
on April 2021