World
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It’s Wedding Season: Here Come the Owls
Juliet has been to many weddings, and she’s a pro. While the happy couple are exchanging vows, she comes out…
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As Ukraine’s Summer Starts With Blackouts, Worries Over Winter Begin
Recent rolling power outages have raised alarm about what will happen when cold weather arrives and energy consumption goes even…
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As Ukraine Rebuilds Its Identity, Folk Songs Are the New Cool
At first sight, it looked like a typical party in a nightclub. It was mid-March in central Kyiv and a…
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love South African Jazz
The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50…
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A War on the Nile Pushes Sudan Toward the Abyss
A proud city of gleaming high rises, oil wealth and five-star hotels lies in ruins. Millions have fled. A famine…
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Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s…
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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia
Stephen Hiltner/The New York Times The sculpted facade of a 2,000-year-old tomb glows in the late-afternoon sun at Hegra, a…
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U.S. Embassy in Lebanon Targeted With Gunfire
An attacker was wounded and arrested, the Lebanese army said. No staff members from the embassy were injured.
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Wednesday Briefing
Narendra Modi’s election setback in India.
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A Deadly Ambush, a Giant Manhunt and 3 Weeks With No Arrest
The aftermath of a brazen attack on a prison convoy has raised uncomfortable questions for France’s justice system.