World
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As Ukraine Rebuilds Its Identity, Folk Songs Are the New Cool
At first sight, it looked like a typical party in a nightclub. It was mid-March in central Kyiv and a…
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5 Minutes That Will Make You Love South African Jazz
The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50…
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A War on the Nile Pushes Sudan Toward the Abyss
A proud city of gleaming high rises, oil wealth and five-star hotels lies in ruins. Millions have fled. A famine…
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Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israel’s…
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Surprising, Unsettling, Surreal: Roaming Through Saudi Arabia
Stephen Hiltner/The New York Times The sculpted facade of a 2,000-year-old tomb glows in the late-afternoon sun at Hegra, a…
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U.S. Embassy in Lebanon Targeted With Gunfire
An attacker was wounded and arrested, the Lebanese army said. No staff members from the embassy were injured.
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Wednesday Briefing
Narendra Modi’s election setback in India.
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A Deadly Ambush, a Giant Manhunt and 3 Weeks With No Arrest
The aftermath of a brazen attack on a prison convoy has raised uncomfortable questions for France’s justice system.
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Amanda Knox to Face Italian Court for Slander Retrial Over 2007 Killing
The American, who spent several years in jail but was exonerated in 2015 of the killing of her housemate in…
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E.C.B. Is Likely to Leapfrog the Fed on Interest Rate Cuts
With eurozone inflation falling, the European Central Bank has signaled it is ready to lower rates this week, diverging from…