World
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Lygia Fagundes Telles, Popular Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 98
Lygia Fagundes Telles, one of Brazil’s most popular writers, whose stories of women trapped in unsatisfying relationships could also be read as ...
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China deploys 2,000 military medics and 10,000 medical workers to Shanghai.
More than 2,000 military medics and 10,000 medical workers from around China have been deployed to Shanghai in recent days to help tame the city ...
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‘Sitting at Home and Trembling.’ A Town Emerges After a Russian Retreat
NOVA BASAN, Ukraine — Badly frightened and hungry, residents of Nova Basan, a town east of Kyiv, emerged from their cottages and farmhouses on ...
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Tommy Davis, Batting Star With the ’60s Dodgers, Dies at 83
Tommy Davis, a former Brooklyn-born baseball prodigy who became a two-time All-Star, won two consecutive National League batting titles and led ...
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Your Tuesday Briefing: The Fallout from Bucha
Good morning. We’re covering the fallout from Russian atrocities in Bucha, the end of Carrie Lam’s tenure as Hong Kong’s leader and Pakistan’s ...
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The War Moves East, as Putin Looks for a Victory
KHARKIV, Ukraine — Soldiers waved off traffic, emerging from trenches dug into the side of a multistory apartment building, telling motorists to ...
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Carrie Lam, Racked by Covid Failures, Will Not Seek New Term in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, announced on Monday that she would not seek a second term after a huge surge in ...
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Zelensky speaks to Grammys audience in a prerecorded video.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, addressed the Grammy Awards in a video, giving an emotional plea for support in his country’s war ...
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Pakistan’s Prime Minister Dissolves Parliament, Blocking an Effort to Remove Him
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Imran Khan dissolved Pakistan’s National Assembly and called for new elections on Sunday, blocking a no ...
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Review: Two Sopranos Make an ‘Elektra’ Both Mythic and Human
Behind the glorious excess of Strauss’s “Elektra” — the libretto’s mythic setting, the score’s unsparing terror — is something smaller: a starkly ...