World
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The Netherlands plans a partial lockdown regardless of vaccination status.
The Netherlands’ government plans to introduce a three-week partial lockdown to quell a fourth wave of Covid infections amid a…
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For Some South Africans, de Klerk Missed Chances for True Reconciliation
JOHANNESBURG — In February of last year, as South Africa’s last white president sat in Parliament listening to a state-of-the-nation…
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Hong Kong’s M+ Museum Is Finally Open. It’s Already in Danger.
HONG KONG — M+, Hong Kong’s sprawling new contemporary art museum, ran into problems from the start. Billed as Asia’s…
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The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera
LONDON — When the curtain rises on English National Opera’s first installment of a new “Ring” cycle on Nov. 19,…
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For Arab Americans, It’s Not Thanksgiving Without Hashweh
Rasha AlMahroos thinks of her Thanksgiving table and chuckles: A big turkey sits in the center, and right next to…
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Migration and Experimentation: What Led to Australia’s Coffee Culture
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. A couple…
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Myanmar Court Sentences American Journalist to 11 Years
Danny Fenster, an American journalist who has been imprisoned in Myanmar since May, was found guilty of three charges on…
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Your Friday Briefing
We’re covering Poland’s escalating border situation and skyrocketing Covid deaths across Europe. Migrants in the Grodno region of Belarus, near…
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Migrants in Peril, and Raw Emotions, in a Volatile European Border Standoff
WARSAW — Thousands of migrants, unwilling weapons in a geopolitical struggle, in peril in a freezing border zone. Far-right nationalists…
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Who Is Aleksandr G. Lukashenko? Here’s What You Need to Know.
He has touted ice hockey, vodka, saunas and tractor-driving as remedies for Covid. He sent a fighter jet to intercept…