Month: July 2022
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Climate Change Is Probably a Drag on Growth, but It’s Unclear How Much
It’s been hot out there. Like water-main-breaking, train-slowing, corn-scorching, road-buckling hot — not to mention heat’s effects on human ...
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Crops ‘Stored Everywhere’: Ukraine’s Harvest Piles Up
A small army of combine harvesters rolled across an endless farm field on a recent afternoon in western Ukraine, kicking…
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They Flocked to China for Boom Times. Now They’re Thinking Twice.
A.H. Beard, a 123-year-old luxury mattress manufacturer based in Australia, started eyeing China around 2010. At the time, the family-owned…
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Prague Gets a Reset and the Emphasis Is Local
Prague was justifiably popular with visitors before the pandemic, but life here often felt slightly out of whack before 2020.…
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In This Subway Series, the Mets Did All the Flexing
The final hit on Wednesday night bounced into the glove of Aaron Hicks, and of course he didn’t want it.…
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A Quirky Parisian Festival Refinds Its Footing
PARIS — The birds hovering around the ruins of Port-Royal des Champs, a former abbey southwest of Paris, may have…
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Britain’s Power Grid Warns of a Tight Energy Supply This Winter
Britain’s power grid raised the prospect of a tight energy supply this winter, publishing an unusual early forecast to help…
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The U.S. has offered a prisoner swap to free Brittney Griner and another American, an official says.
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken revealed on Wednesday that the United States had “put a substantial proposal…
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U.S. Offers to Swap Russian Arms Dealer for Griner and Whelan
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has offered to free the imprisoned Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to secure the release…
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Domestic opposition to Putin invites jail, dividing activists over the wisdom of staying put to fight.
Shortly after Russia shocked the world by attacking Ukraine on Feb. 24, Ilya V. Yashin, a local Moscow councilman and…