World
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Comet Fragment Explodes in Dark Skies Over Spain and Portugal
A brilliant flash of blue, green and white on Saturday night came from a shard of an as yet unidentified…
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Global Tensions and a Hostile Neighbor Await Taiwan’s New Leader
Lai Ching-te, the incoming president, has vowed to stay on his predecessor’s narrow path of resisting Beijing without provoking it.…
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Hochul Visits an Ancestral Home, 3,000 Miles From the Governor’s Mansion
After meeting the pope and the mayors of Rome, London and Dublin, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York paused to…
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Critics Fault ‘Aggressive’ N.Y.P.D. Response to Pro-Palestinian Rally
Officers were filmed punching three demonstrators at the protest in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The police said protesters were blocking the…
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As U.S. Waits on Raisi’s Fate, Several Confrontations Are Brewing
Even before the announcement on Sunday of the crash of a helicopter believed to be carrying Iran’s president, relations between…
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Monday Briefing: Iran’s President Is Missing After a Helicopter Crash
Also, Russian troops moved closer to Kharkiv.
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Congolese Army Says It Foiled a Coup Involving Americans
The U.S. ambassador said she was “very concerned” that Americans may have participated in what officials of the Democratic Republic…
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Toxic Political Culture Has Even Some Slovaks Calling Country ‘a Black Hole.’
Slovakia has long been dogged by criticism that it is prone to authoritarianism, but a frenzy of blame since an…
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Russia and Ukraine Engage in Dueling Air Assaults Behind the Front Lines
Both sides have been looking for ways to inflict damage beyond the battlefield, targeting military logistics hubs and urban centers.
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Helicopter Carrying Iran’s President Has Crashed, State Media Reports
Rescuers are trying to locate the helicopter on which President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian were traveling,…