World
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Danish Leader Is Questioned Over ‘Minkgate’ Cull Driven by Covid Fears
In Denmark, they’re calling it “minkgate.” A government decision last year to cull Denmark’s herd of 17 million minks for…
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Danish Leader Is Questioned Over ‘Minkgate’ Cull Driven by Covid Fears
In Denmark, they’re calling it “minkgate.” A government decision last year to cull Denmark’s herd of 17 million minks for…
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Volkswagen’s C.E.O. stays on board, but loses some responsibilities.
BERLIN — Volkswagen’s chief executive, Herbert Diess, won fresh backing from the automaker’s supervisory board on Thursday, but his ...
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India’s Farmers Call Off Yearlong Protest Against Hated Farm Laws
NEW DELHI — After a sustained protest that forced one of the country’s most powerful leaders into a rare retreat,…
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Boris Johnson and Wife, Carrie Johnson, Announce Birth of Second Child
In the middle of one of the more politically perilous weeks of Boris Johnson’s tenure, the British prime minister’s office…
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‘Beijing Spring’ Review: The Politics of Aesthetics
Can art effect real change in the world? To this ever-urgent question, “Beijing Spring” — a new documentary about the…
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Europe Pushes New Rules Turning Gig Workers Into Employees
LONDON — In one of the biggest challenges yet to the labor practices at popular ride-hailing and food-delivery services, the…
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Prime Minister of Finland apologizes for clubbing maskless after contact with an infected official.
Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland apologized late Wednesday after photographs surfaced of her dancing maskless in a nightclub on…
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Progress for Saudi Women Is Uneven, Despite Cultural Changes and More Jobs
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — At the cramped shop where Kholoud Ahmed sells the traditional Muslim women’s gowns known as abayas,…
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New Zealand Plans to Eventually Ban All Cigarette Sales
New Zealand unveiled a plan on Thursday to eventually ban all sales of cigarettes in the country, a decades-long effort…