World
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Your Tuesday Briefing: China Limits Olympic Spectators
We’re covering dashed hopes for Olympic spectators in Beijing and China’s birth rate challenge. Installations for the 2022 Winter Olympic…
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China decides not to sell Olympics tickets to the Chinese public.
China had already barred foreign spectators from attending the Winter Games that begin in Beijing in less than a month.…
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A Love of Trees or a Display of Power? The Odd Park of an Oligarch
SHEKVETILI, Georgia — Over the past five years, people in Georgia witnessed a surreal spectacle: giant, even centuries-old trees floating…
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Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Had ‘Mental Health Issues,’ Brother in U.K. Says
BLACKBURN, England — The British man named by the F.B.I. as the person who took four people hostage at a…
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A Fighter for Press Freedom Is Expanding Her Battle
Jodie Ginsberg was leading a small, scrappy freedom of expression organization in London in 2014 when the Bahraini human rights…
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Officials Investigating Synagogue Attacker’s Link to 2010 Terror Case
KARACHI, Pakistan — A neuroscientist who was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was accused of trying to…
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A Record Virus Surge in the Philippines, but Doctors Are Hopeful
The Philippines is grappling with a Covid-19 surge that has accelerated at a pace not seen since the start of…
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Texas Synagogue Hostage Taker Had ‘Mental Health Issues,’ Brother in U.K. Says
BLACKBURN, England — The British man named by the F.B.I. as the person who took four people hostage at a…
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Poroshenko, Former President, Returns to Ukraine, Roiling Politics
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s former president and a leading opposition figure, Petro O. Poroshenko, returned Monday to Kyiv, where he…
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Djokovic Returns to Warm Embrace in Home Country of Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia — Novak Djokovic, undone in his quest for a 10th Australian Open tennis championship by his decision to…