World
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Powerful Iraqi Shiite Cleric Says He Is Leaving Politics
Iraq’s influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Monday that he was retiring from politics and closing all of his movement’s…
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Wolfgang Tillmans: Older, Wiser, Cooler
“Civil rights have to be defended, and democracy has to be defended. I was always aware of that,” Wolfgang Tillmans…
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‘Little Venice’ Finally Gets its Moment
On Aug. 4, the Viking Sea, a 930-passenger cruise ship, docked in Italy’s Venetian Lagoon. At first sight, the scene…
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‘The Eye of the Storm’: Taiwan Is Caught in a Great Game Over Microchips
TAIPEI, Taiwan — As Chinese warships rehearsed a blockade of Taiwan this month, they simulated a scenario global leaders and…
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Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the Ocean Floor
KINGSTON, Jamaica — As demand grows globally for metals needed to make batteries for electric vehicles, one of the richest…
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Xi Jinping’s Vision for Tech Self-Reliance in China Runs Into Reality
Wearing a laboratory coat, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, inspected a subsidiary of Yangtze Memory Technologies Company, a national ...
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In Algeria, Macron Seeks to Reshape a Traumatic Relationship With France
ALGIERS — Past the graves and elaborate Christian mausoleums of Saint Eugene Cemetery, President Emmanuel Macron of France made his…
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Your Monday Briefing
Shelling around the Zaporizhzhia power plant has raised fears of a catastrophic nuclear accident.Credit...David Guttenfelder for The New York ...
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More Vital Than Ever, Ukraine’s Trains Bind a Land Fractured by War
KYIV, Ukraine — A Polish friend offered some advice about taking the Ukrainian National Railways express train to Kyiv from…
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Your Monday Briefing: Record Heat Disrupts China
A dried-up section of Poyang Lake, which is facing low water levels because of a regional drought in Lushan, China.Credit...Thomas…