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They Had the Vaccines and a Plan to Reopen. Instead They Got Cold Feet.
SINGAPORE — The vaccines were supposed to be the ticket out of the pandemic. But in Singapore, things did not…
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Your Friday Briefing
Senator Joe Manchin talking with reporters after voting to raise the debt ceiling.Credit...T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York TimesSenate agrees…
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Covid’s Relentless Strain on a Melbourne Hospital
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s…
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Africans Welcome New Malaria Vaccine. But Is It a ‘Game Changer’?
NAIROBI, Kenya — When babies are born in western Kenya, where malaria is rife, many mothers are sent home from…
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Your Friday Briefing
We’re covering the rush to buy Covid treatment pills in Asia, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and…
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Germany’s Coalition Dating Game Starts to Get Serious
BERLIN — After a frantic week of political speed dating among five German political parties eager to form the next…
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France will charge the unvaccinated for Covid tests, in a bid to speed up inoculations.
Covid screening tests in France will no longer be free for unvaccinated people starting on Oct. 15, according to the…
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The W.H.O. says North Korea is accepting medical supplies, after a long pandemic blockade.
The World Health Organization said on Thursday that it had resumed shipments of medical supplies to North Korea to help…
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C.I.A. Reorganization to Place New Focus on China
WASHINGTON — The C.I.A. will embark on a reorganization intended to focus more on China, the agency’s director announced on…
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Countries in the Asia-Pacific region rush to buy Merck’s Covid-19 pills.
Countries in the Asia-Pacific region this week became some of the first after the United States to secure supplies of…