World
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Australia Declares Koalas an Endangered Species
SYDNEY, Australia — The Australian government on Friday declared the koala an endangered species, as drought, bush fires, disease and…
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Readers Reflect on the State of Australian Politics
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. In last week’s Australia Letter, Besha Rodell wrote about…
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Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen Afghan Funds
WASHINGTON — President Biden will start to clear a legal path for certain relatives of victims of the Sept. 11,…
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As Other Hot Spots Boil, U.S. Shows Its Foreign Policy Focus Is Asia
MELBOURNE, Australia — With Europe bracing for the possibility of its biggest ground war in decades, the American secretary of…
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No Hijabs for Now, Indian Court Tells Muslim Students
UDUPI, India — An Indian court has said that students in the southern state of Karnataka should stop wearing religious…
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Your Friday Briefing
A Ukrainian soldier in Donetsk, Ukraine.Credit...Tyler Hicks/The New York TimesRussia closes in on Ukraine The Kremlin is tightening its ...
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What Elon Musk Did and Didn’t Reveal About SpaceX’s Starship Rocket
On an outdoor stage in South Texas between screens with polished computer animations and a real gigantic shiny rocket behind…
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He Became an Olympic Sensation, Without a Shirt and Without Competing
YANQING, China — Nathan Ikon Crumpton, a skeleton athlete at the Winter Olympics, woke up in Beijing last weekend a…
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The Slippery Science of Skeleton
Many Winter Olympic sports have ancient origins, dating to times when humans invented new ways of getting around in the…
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Canadian Trucker Protests Snarl an Already Hobbled Auto Industry
After two years of the pandemic, semiconductor shortages and supply chain chaos, it seemed as if nothing else could go…