World
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Afghan Refugees Face Two-Tier System in Europe
Some of the Afghan women around the table in the neoclassical building in central Athens were making notes in leatherbound…
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Amid Slowdown, Immigration Is Driving U.S. Population Growth
Overall, 2021 will go down as the year with the slowest population growth in U.S. history. New census data shows…
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Ottawa Residents Fed Up With Truckers’ Noisy and Intimidating Occupation
Just over a week has passed since a convoy of heavy trucks, pickup trucks and cars began their noisy, intimidating…
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Facing Tough Election, Orban Turns to Putin for Support
BUDAPEST — Facing a tough election in two months, Hungary’s far-right populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, last week opened the…
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Editor in Kashmir Is Arrested Amid Intensifying Clampdown
NEW DELHI — The editor of a news website has been arrested in Kashmir, in what critics called the latest…
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Leader’s Death Is Another Blow for ISIS, but It’s Hardly the End
BEIRUT, Lebanon — For a man who sought to disappear, the leader of the Islamic State seemed to have done…
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A Side-Effect of China’s Strict Virus Policy: Abandoned Fruit
HANOI, Vietnam — At Pham Thanh Hong’s dragon fruit orchard in Vietnam, most of the lights are turned off. All…
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A Skating Legend Powered by Slights, Real and Perceived
The thought of the chocolate bar still makes Ireen Wüst smile. The memory is about two decades old, dating to…
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Ukraine Gave Up a Giant Nuclear Arsenal 30 Years Ago. Today There Are Regrets.
At the end of the Cold War, the third largest nuclear power on earth was not Britain, France or China.…
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‘Guernica’ Antiwar Tapestry to Be Rehung at U.N.
When a 25-foot tapestry replica of Pablo Picasso’s antiwar painting “Guernica” was removed from the United Nations by its owner…