Month: October 2021
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Taking a Royal Pavilion Apart, Piece by Piece
SEOUL — Three years after being dismantled piece by piece, a 19th-century pavilion where Korean royalty once frolicked has been…
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Why Some Strawberries Turn a Ghostly Shade of White
Strawberries are not always red. Fragaria nubicola, native to the Himalayas, can produce a vivid red fruit or a ghostly…
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‘Different Way of Fighting’: Lyrics Are the Weapons of All-Women Roma Band
Many Roma women face pressures to marry young and take on traditional gender roles. Pretty Loud, a hip-hop group from…
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Greece Is Getting Rewired for the Future
NAXOS, Greece — On the windswept western tip of one of Greece’s largest islands, an unassuming stone building above the…
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‘America Is Back,’ Biden Declared in June. The World Is About to Test Him.
WASHINGTON — When President Biden gathered with world leaders at an English seaside resort in June, it was a backslapping…
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Saying Goodbye to Melbourne’s Long Lockdown (Again)
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. One year…
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Your Friday Briefing
President Biden leaving for Rome on Thursday. While the president found plenty of support for his plan, he left the…
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Nuclear-Powered Submarines for Australia? Maybe Not So Fast.
SYDNEY, Australia — When Australia made its trumpet-blast announcement that it would build nuclear-powered submarines with the help of the…
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France Detains British Boat as a Fight Over Fishing Rights Escalates
PARIS — French authorities said Thursday that they had detained a British fishing trawler, prompting the government in London to…
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Struggles over vaccine mandates, the death of Colin Powell: the week in Covid news.
As tens of millions of Americans remain unvaccinated, state and local governments have introduced mandates requiring public employees be fully…
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