World
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Seattle Bike Helmet Rule Is Dropped Amid Racial Justice Concerns
In Seattle, home to one of the largest populations of bike commuters in the country, officials have overturned a decades-old…
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Hong Kong delays an election amid a Covid surge as leaders ‘focus on the epidemic.’
Hong Kong will postpone the election of its next leader so that it can focus on containing a surge in…
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Multinationals in Ukraine are ready for a conflict but staying put.
Big American and European companies operating on the ground in Ukraine said Friday that they had contingency plans at the…
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As Shelling Picks Up, Eastern Ukrainians Are Cowering
NOVOTOSHKIVSKE, Ukraine — Artillery shells struck a ring of frontline towns in eastern Ukraine Friday, blowing out windows, hitting schools…
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¿Por qué China no ha aprobado o desarrollado una vacuna de ARNm?
China ha hecho todo lo posible para mantener el virus fuera de sus fronteras y proteger a su población; o…
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‘Blimey, He Looks High.’ A Gale-Force Play-by-Play at Heathrow Goes Viral.
LONDON — As a winter gale with 70 mile-per-hour wind gusts tore across the British Isles on Friday, the government…
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What Australia’s Success at the Winter Olympics Does (and Doesn’t) Tell You
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s…
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Austin Police Officers to Be Indicted for Conduct in Racial Justice Protests
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas district attorney said on Thursday it was very likely that several Austin police officers would…
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Curling Drifts to the East, Where Rock Stars Are Being Born
BEIJING — In Japan, the curlers of Team Fujisawa, the women’s team, are rock stars. Their cries of “sodanee,” or…
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Your Friday Briefing
Naatlia Slesareva, 54, at Fairytale Kindergarten, where she has worked for 37 years. The school was hit by shells on…