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The clash over the Belarus-Poland border crisis spills into the U.N. Security Council.
The escalating standoff over the migrants bivouacked in Belarus and blocked from entering Poland and Lithuania spilled into the United…
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Your Friday Briefing
We’re covering the Chinese Communist Party’s decision to elevate Xi Jinping and the worsening migrant crisis at the Poland-Belarus border.…
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On Delhi’s Toxic River, Prayers to a Sun Struggling to Shine Through Smog
NEW DELHI — As the worshipers descended the slope to the riverbank, dressed in their festival best and carrying offerings,…
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Germany’s Fourth Covid Wave: ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
BERLIN — The University Hospital of Giessen, one of Germany’s foremost clinics for pulmonary disease, is at capacity. The number…
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Alibaba reports slower sales growth for its Singles Day shopping event.
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said $84.5 billion in merchandise was sold on its platforms during the Singles Day shopping…
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Eyeing his future, Xi Jinping rewrites the past.
阅读简体中文版 • 閱讀繁體中文版 China’s Communist Party delivered Xi Jinping a breakthrough on Thursday that will help secure his political future…
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Border tensions are of ‘utmost concern to all sober-thinking people,’ Russia says.
As the border crisis along the European Union’s eastern flank has intensified, President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko of Belarus has once…
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On the ground: Hiding and hurting in the forests of Poland.
It was pitch black before dawn on Thursday, and only the howling winter wind pierced the silence in the primeval…
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Europe had over half of the world’s Covid deaths early this month, the W.H.O. says.
Coronavirus deaths in Europe rose 10 percent in the first week of this month and made up over half of…
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Zadie Smith’s First Play Brings Chaucer to Her Beloved Northwest London
LONDON — Zadie Smith grew up around the corner from the Kiln Theater, which sits on the bustling Kilburn High…