World
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Beirut, a City Where Everyone Gets By, Revisits Sectarian Violence
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Tony Nohra, a shopkeeper in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, was receiving a shipment of yogurt on…
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With Lawmaker’s Killing, the U.K. Confronts a New Episode of Terrorism
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other British leaders paid their respects on Saturday morning at a church east…
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In Venezuela, a Rum Maker Offers Gangsters a Life Outside of Crime
In the process, the family running the company, Ron Santa Teresa, has gone from bankruptcy to exporting an award-winning vintage…
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What Are Political ‘Surgeries’ in Britain?
David Amess, a British lawmaker who was stabbed to death on Friday, warned in a book published less than a…
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China’s Latest Craze: Scripted Murders, With Real Tears and Piracy
The murders are scripted. The money is real. In cities throughout China, young people are flocking to clubs to play…
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In the Land of the Godfather Comes a Ban on Them
CATANIA, Italy — The mother had prepared everything for the baptism. She dressed her infant son Antonio in a handmade…
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New Zealand Attempts a Record-Setting ‘Vaxathon’
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Since New Zealand closed its borders in March 2020, setting the stage for one of the…
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Mining for Gold in Australia’s Migrant Past
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. On the…
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Quebec Language Debate Spurs Eerie Sense of Déjà-Vu
MONTREAL — When I go for a stroll in my Montreal neighborhood, the bourgeois-bohemian Plateau-Mont-Royal, I hear a Babel of…
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El monumento a Colón en México: un reemplazo que enciende pasiones
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO — En todo el continente americano se van derribando estatuas de Cristóbal Colón, al tiempo que se…