International
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Turkey Is Next as Wildfires Afflict Mediterranean Countries
Firefighters in Turkey struggled to contain dozens of wildfires raging for a third day Friday, as fast-spreading blazes forced popular…
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Haitians Investigating President’s Death, Under Threat, Go Into Hiding
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — They examined the bodies of Haiti’s slain president and of the mercenaries who are accused of conspiring…
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Germany Will Offer Vaccine Booster Shots Starting in September
BERLIN — As concerns grow over the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, Germany on Monday became the biggest…
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U.S. Falls to Canada, a Stinging Blow in a Frustrating Olympics
KASHIMA, Japan — The referee’s whistle had barely finished chirping when the Canadian players sprinted to the middle of the…
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Britain Rethinks Letting China Enter Its Nuclear Power Industry
LONDON — A few years ago, Britain agreed to let China take an ownership stake in its newest nuclear power…
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Belarusian Sprinter Who Feared for Her Safety Is Offered Asylum in Poland
TOKYO — Kristina Timanovskaya, the Belarusian Olympic sprinter who sought protection at a Tokyo airport as her nation tried to…
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Concern Grows Over Rising of Respiratory Virus and Delta Infections Among Children
Health officials have expressed concern over a simultaneous rise in delta infections and cases of a respiratory virus known as…
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Zoom Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Zoombombing’
Zoom Video Communications, the videoconferencing company whose internet app became a mainstay of American life during the coronavirus pandemic, has…
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Key Afghan City in Danger of Falling to the Taliban
KABUL, Afghanistan — An important city in Afghanistan’s south was in danger of falling to the Taliban on Saturday as…
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Olympic Sprinter From Belarus Seeks Refuge in Japan, Fearing Jail at Home
A Belarusian sprinter said Sunday that she was under the protection of the Japanese police after her country’s Olympic Committee…
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