World
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Your Monday Briefing
Good morning. We’re covering Singapore’s testy reopening, mounting tensions over Taiwan and China’s fraught custody battles. People walked in an…
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‘What Have We Done With Democracy?’ A Decade On, Arab Spring Gains Wither
TUNIS, Tunisia — For roughly three months after Tunisians toppled their dictator in January 2011 in an eruption of protest…
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Iraqis’ Frustration Over Broken Promises Keeps Voter Turnout Low
BAGHDAD — Iraqis voted Sunday in parliamentary elections meant to herald sweeping change to a dysfunctional political system that has…
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After Killings, U.K. Asks: Should Misogyny Be a Hate Crime?
LONDON — As anger grew in Britain last week over the justice system’s approach to violence against women, the public…
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Electricity Is Restored in Lebanon, as Army Supplies Emergency Fuel
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Lebanon’s sputtering national electricity grid went back online on Sunday after the army provided emergency fuel supplies…
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Where Parents Have Abducted Their Own Children in a Bid for Custody
The men and women wrestled Wang Jianna to the ground. Holding down her legs and shoulders, they pried her 6-month-old…
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Brazil’s Covid-19 death toll passes 600,000.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil surpassed the grim landmark of more than 600,000 Covid-19 deaths this week, making its death…
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Bolshoi Performer Is Killed in Onstage Accident
A performer was killed during an opera at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow on Saturday when there was an accident…
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Canadian Admits Fabricating Terrorism Tale Detailed in New York Times Podcast
OTTAWA — A Canadian man admitted in court on Friday that he made up tales about serving as an Islamic…
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Populist Leader of Czech Republic Narrowly Defeated in Election
PRAGUE — In a blow to Europe’s once surging populist politicians, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, a pugnacious…