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Unusually heavy rains engulfed roads and bridges, flooding towns and cities in central China. The extreme weather has killed 33 people, displaced 250,000, and caused widespread disruption.
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Pandemic meets “pingdemic”: Coronavirus infections rise sharply and an official app tells legions of people to stay home after exposure, even as most restrictions are lifted.
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Scotland is not ready to abandon pandemic restrictions, says its nationalist leader, Nicola Sturgeon. That stance could increase support for Scottish independence if coronavirus cases in England surge.
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As a crackdown widens in her country, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is trying to build a broad phalanx of Western opposition to a dictatorship that she says is on its “last breaths.”
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A story that portrayed the police as wolves helped lead to the arrests of five leaders of a speech therapists’ union.
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Despite promises from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada has yet to produce a plan to bring Afghan interpreters and other workers to the country.
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Argentines no longer have to be identified as female or male on their national identity documents, the latest step in President Alberto Fernández’s push for gender equality.
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The Brazilian president has repeatedly tested social media networks, which have struggled to deal with misinformation from political leaders.
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The decades-old joke came to light days before the ceremony and was the latest scandal to confront organizers of the Tokyo Games.
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Mr. Robinson had been taken to court after making accusations against a Syrian teenager who was violently attacked by classmates on video.
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A Jew and a Palestinian sling slurs at each other, giving voice to hidden prejudice with the aim of overcoming it.
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More officials are encouraging people to return to their daily rhythms and transition to a new normal. But scientists warn that it may be too soon to design exit strategies for the pandemic.
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The wife of President Jovenel Moïse, who was wounded in the attack that killed her husband, returned to Haiti after getting medical treatment in the U.S.
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France has long sought to create a secular, colorblind republic. But a clash between a government minister and a youth conference shows how those values are being questioned by a new generation.
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El caso Pegasus es una muestra de que la piratería informática vinculada a los gobiernos se ha convertido en una característica general, y quizás permanente, del orden global.
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Más autoridades animan a la gente a volver a su ritmo cotidiano y a instalarse en una nueva normalidad. Pero los científicos advierten que tal vez es demasiado pronto para implementar estrategias de salida.
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Las jugadoras noruegas de balonmano playero fueron multadas con 150 euros cada una por usar pantalones cortos en vez de la parte inferior del bikini. Una portavoz de la Federación Internacional de Balonmano dijo desconocer el motivo de la norma.
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La esposa del presidente Jovenel Moïse, que resultó herida en el atentado que mató a su marido, regresó al país tras recibir tratamiento médico en Estados Unidos.
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El líder de izquierda, quien ha prometido renovar el sistema político y económico para abordar la pobreza y la desigualdad, derrotó por muy pocos votos a la hija de un expresidente encarcelado.
By Mitra Taj and
More people are calling England’s canals — and the narrow boats used to navigate them — home as remote work options in the pandemic’s wake make a mobile lifestyle more possible.
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At memorial events for President Jovenel Moïse in northern Haiti, residents blamed the elite for his death, and their plight.
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Using the same marble found in Renaissance masterpieces, a team of robots is accepting commissions. Their owners say tech is essential to Italy’s artistic future.
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The cows don’t have to produce milk. The pigs sleep late. No animal on this former dairy farm serves a human need. Their only purpose is to live peacefully — and provoke questions about how we eat.
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As India emerges from a traumatic spring, its most famous monument is open again. But worries that another wave of infections may be looming have cast a pall over lives that feel stuck in limbo.
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