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Crisis-Hit British Museum Names Interim Director
Mark Jones, a former leader of the Victoria and Albert Museum, is set to take over with a remit to restore confidence after a theft scandal.
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Incumbent Claims Victory in Zimbabwe Election Amid Fraud Accusations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa won another five-year term by intimidating voters and manipulating the campaign process.
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Bob Barker, Longtime Host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ Dies at 99
The winner of numerous Emmy Awards, he was almost as well known for his advocacy of animal rights as he was for his half a century as a daytime television fixture.
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He Fled China’s Repression. But China’s Long Arm Got Him in Another Country.
Beijing has become more aggressive in its pursuit of dissidents overseas, as highlighted by the arrest of a Chinese rights lawyer in Laos.
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Hoping to Stay in the Shohei Ohtani Business
The day after slugging his 40th home run of the season — and leaving his pitching duties early because of a cramp in his right middle finger — Shohei Ohtani walked into the Los Angeles Angels clubhouse dressed, as always, in Southern California chic ...
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Seafood Is Safe After Fukushima Water Dump, but Some Won’t Eat It
Sushi is among several shunned foods as Japan dumps treated radioactive water into the Pacific. Experts say the fear is irrational but understandable.
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In a Report From a Distant Border, I Glimpsed Our Brutal Future
Once in a while, some single thing manages to encapsulate all that feels terrible about our world today. For me, this week, it was a bone-chilling report from Human Rights Watch documenting how Saudi border guards had killed hundreds — perhaps ...
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In Portugal, a Former Royal Home Opens as a Hotel
Plus: charm necklaces, Alex Katz’s paintings of autumn — and more recommendations from T Magazine.
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Ukraine Observes Independence Day With Subdued Celebrations
Ukraine is observing its second wartime Independence Day by displaying the carcasses of destroyed Russian military equipment along a central avenue in Kyiv, giving residents a firsthand glimpse at the country’s struggle to defend itself from Russia’s ...
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We’re Having a Cowboy Moment
When Navied Mahdavian, a cartoonist, and his wife, Emelie, a filmmaker, moved from San Francisco to Mackay, Idaho (population 473), they fixated on their new hometown’s theater. Or, rather, the ghost of a theater. A red and white marquee for the ...
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