World
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Supporters of the High Line Aim to Block Plan to Build a Casino Nearby
A plan to build a casino over a sprawling rail yard on Manhattan’s Far West Side has a new, formidable…
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What’s a Semiquincentennial? You Have 2 Years to Find Out.
A group is planning a celebration to mark July 4, 2026. The occasion, for short, is known as Semiquin.
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Squirt Guns and ‘Go Home’ Signs: Barcelona Residents Take Aim at Tourists
Locals confronted visitors to the Catalan capital in a whimsical (but very serious) demonstration against mass tourism and housing shortages.
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They Called It ‘Improper’ to Have Women in the Olympics. But She Persisted.
It was 1922, two years before the last time the Olympics were held in Paris. On a warm August day,…
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Rwanda Says It Doesn’t Have to Repay U.K. for Scrapped Migration Plan
Britain gave Rwanda hundreds of millions of pounds, even though no asylum seekers were deported to the Central African nation…
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A Biden Confidant Emerges as a Crucial Mideast Diplomat
Amos Hochstein, an energy policy official who was born in Israel, is playing diplomatic firefighter along the Israel-Lebanon border.
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How ‘Kill’ Slices Bollywood Open
Five questions for the director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat about his Indian action film, which takes an ultraviolent step away from…
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Centuries of Avalanches Are Stored in Tree Rings
Discovering evidence of deadly deluges of snow from the past could help protect people on mountains around the world, researchers…
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Delighting in the Lavender Fields of Central Spain
A day in Brihuega during the lavender bloom requires only one set plan: Get to the fields by sunset, to…
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6 Beautiful, Breezy Places to Learn to Kiteboard
The sport, in which you strap on a 30-foot kite and skim across the waves, is about to make its…