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North Korea reports its first Covid cases.
SEOUL — North Korea on Thursday reported its first outbreak of the coronavirus, declaring a “maximum emergency” and ordering all…
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Assad Visits U.A.E. in Latest Sign of Re-engagement
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, his first…
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In Reversal, Guatemala Shelves Anti-Abortion Law
GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala’s congress on Tuesday shelved a bill that would have imposed up to 10 years of jail…
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Submarine Spy Couple Tried to Sell Nuclear Secrets to Brazil
WASHINGTON — In 2020, a United States naval engineer and his wife made the fateful decision to try to sell…
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Your Tuesday Briefing
Residents of a shelled building in Kyiv, Ukraine, comforted each other yesterday as Russian forces kept bombarding the city.Credit...Lynsey ...
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An Olympic marathoner’s journey from Kenya to the front lines in Ukraine.
ITEN, Kenya — The Ukrainian marathoner Mykola Nyzhnyk was asleep in the Kenyan countryside on Feb. 24 when he received…
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Figure Skating Officials Bar Russians With World Championships Weeks Away
The International Skating Union, figure skating’s world governing body, on Tuesday became the latest sports federation to bar Russian athletes…
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The European Union will ask states to grant asylum to Ukrainian refugees for up to 3 years.
More than 300,000 Ukrainians have fled to the European Union since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Thursday, and…
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It’s Norway’s Games Again. What’s Its Secret?
BEIJING — They’re doing it again. Norway, with a population of just five million, is executing its quadrennial triumph over…
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Baffled by the Chaos in Canada? So Are Canadians.
OTTAWA — It seemed a classically Canadian moment in a scene otherwise torn from the book of Trump America. Between…
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