World
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A Protest? A Vigil? In Beijing, Anxious Crowds Are Unsure How Far to Go.
BEIJING — The crowd was hard to make out at first, a dark mass huddled along the Beijing riverbank after…
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Belarus’s architect of Western outreach dies suddenly, state media reports.
A top Belarusian official who led a failed attempt to thaw diplomatic relations between the nation’s Kremlin-allied government and the…
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For Putin’s Opponents, Exile From Russia Proves a Boon
VILNIUS, Lithuania — Sitting before a large video monitor in his suburban Moscow office last week, President Vladimir V. Putin…
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Major News Outlets Urge U.S. to Drop Its Charges Against Assange
WASHINGTON — The New York Times and four European news organizations called on the United States government on Monday to…
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Turning Point for Garland as Justice Dept. Grapples With Trump Inquiries
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, a stoic former federal judge intent on restoring rule-of-law order at the Justice…
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3 Weeks After Hack, This Island Nation’s Government Is Still Off-line
The government of the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu has essentially been off-line for three weeks because of a cyberattack,…
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China Protests Break Out as Covid Cases Surge and Lockdowns Persist
“Lift the lockdown,” the protesters screamed in a city in China’s far west. On the other side of the country,…
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Millions in Houston Are Told to Boil Water, Prompting School Closures
Millions of Houston residents were told Sunday night to boil their water before drinking it after a power outage at…
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Biden Helped Democrats Avert a ’22 Disaster. What About ’24?
Expecting a cataclysmic midterm election, many Democrats had been bracing for an end-of-year reckoning with whether President Biden, who once…
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Your Monday Briefing
Police officers on Sunday blocked Urumqi Road in Shanghai.Credit...Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesProtesters lash out at China ...