World
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French Court Convicts Magazine Over Racist Portrayal of Black Lawmaker
PARIS — A court in Paris on Wednesday found a conservative French magazine guilty under French hate speech laws of…
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Daintree Forest in Australia Is Returned to Indigenous Owners
The Daintree Rainforest in Australia — a world-famous travel destination and, at an estimated 180 million years old, one of…
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#DoNotTouchMyClothes: Afghan Women Protest Taliban Restrictions on Rights
This summer, Bahar Jalali watched anxiously as the United States withdrew its military from Afghanistan and the Taliban began to…
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Reduced to Rubble, an Afghan Village Struggles to Rebuild
ARZO, Afghanistan — When Muhammad Akram Sharifi returned to the village he was forced to flee over a year ago,…
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Le Goncourt renoue-t-il avec les conflits d’intérêts?
De gauche à droite, Pierre Assouline, Philippe Claudel, Patrick Rambaud, Pascal Bruckner, Didier Decoin, Camille Laurens, François Chandernagor ...
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Evergrande sells a $1.5 billion stake in a bank to help settle debts.
Evergrande, the embattled Chinese real estate developer, said Wednesday that it was selling a stake it held in Shengjing Bank…
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La Palma Volcano Lava Hits Ocean, Creating a Pyramid and Toxic Gas Risks
Ten days into a volcanic eruption on the Spanish island of La Palma, a pyramid formed on Wednesday just off…
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Reduced to Rubble, an Afghan Village Struggles to Rebuild
ARZO, Afghanistan — When Muhammad Akram Sharifi returned to the village he was forced to flee over a year ago,…
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In Paris, It’s Literary Scandal Season Again
PARIS — The sidewalks of Paris were already strewn with fallen chestnuts by the time the literary season’s first scandal…
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Japan Faces Big Problems. Its Next Leader Offers Few Bold Solutions.
TOKYO — With the world’s oldest population, rapidly declining births, gargantuan public debt and increasingly damaging natural disasters fueled ...