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World
UNESCO Moves to Protect Odesa, Designating the City a World Heritage Site
Sandbags in front of Odesa’s Opera and Ballet Theater in June last year.Credit...Laetitia Vancon for The New York TimesThe view…
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Sports
An Australian Open Final With Tennis and Debate on the Ukraine War
Nearly a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, a Russian-turned-Kazakh will play a Belarusian in the finals, which is sure to…
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World
Spanish Police Arrest a Man in Letter Bomb Case
A 74-year-old Spanish man made and sent all of the six letter bombs himself, the authorities alleged, though the “participation…
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World
Natural Gas Shortages Hit China as Temperatures Plunge
Local governments starved for cash after enormous spending on costly “zero Covid” measures cannot afford to keep up adequate supplies…
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Business
Russia’s War Breathes New Life Into a Cold War Symbol
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a news network originally set up as a C.I.A. operation early in the Cold War, is…
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World
Former Top F.B.I. Official in New York Charged in Money Laundering
Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence in the city, took payments from Oleg Deripaska to investigate a…
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World
Germany’s Reluctance on Tanks Stems From Its History and Its Politics
A post-Nazi aversion to war and a commitment to promoting peace through engagement combines with an old fixation on Russia…
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News
A Brutal New Phase of the War in Ukraine
The war in Ukraine has entered a new, more deadly and fateful phase, and the one man who can stop…
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World
A Hit French Novel Tries to Explain Putin. Too Well, Some Critics Say.
A popular novel, “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” presents a sympathetic portrait of the Russian leader, critics say, raising concerns…
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World
The NATO Alliance Is Holding Strong on Ukraine. But Fractures Are Emerging.
The allies differ on strategy for the coming year and the more immediate question of what Ukraine needs ahead of…