World
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Overlooked No More: Regina Jonas, Upon Whose Shoulders ‘All Female Rabbis Stand’
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…
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1972: Greece Grants Political Asylum to 6 Russian Sailors
Credit...International Herald TribuneATHENS, Aug. 18 (Reuters) — A Greek government spokesman said here last night that six Russian seamen who…
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For Former Rebel in West Africa, Her Allegiance Still Lies With Russia
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — When her country needed arms to fight its bitter liberation war against its colonizer, it was the…
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Trouble in Paradise: Chinese Tourists Left Stranded During Lockdowns
A few days into a two-week tour through the island province of Hainan — known as the Hawaii of China…
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Drink Up, Japan Tells Young People. I’ll Pass, Many Reply.
TOKYO — Among the casualties of the pandemic is one that many young people in Japan say they do not…
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Russia and Ukraine trade accusations of a potential attack on a nuclear complex, terrifying its workers.
KYIV, Ukraine — Tensions around the nuclear power plant on the front lines of the war in Ukraine escalated sharply…
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Could New Zealand Change Its Name?
The connection between New Zealand, the Pacific archipelagoeast of Australia, and Zeeland, the windmill-flecked Dutch province from which it ...
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U.N. Chief Heads to Odesa, Facing Limits of Influence Over War in Ukraine
António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, is scheduled to arrive on Friday in Odesa, Ukraine’s largest port city, in…
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Your Friday Briefing
A wildfire near Belin-Béliet, in southwestern France, last weekend. Credit...Thibaud Moritz/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesThe strain of ...
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Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target.
Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. This most storied of ports remains the Russian leader’s obsession. Not only…