World
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Angelina Jolie Ending Her Role With U.N. Refugee Agency
Ms. Jolie, who had worked with the organization for 21 years, said she wanted to connect more directly with refugees…
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Which Virus Is It This Time? New Yorkers Are Sick of Being Sick.
New Yorkers are contending with a bewildering and miserable mix of symptoms as Covid, flu, R.S.V. and various mystery illnesses…
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Police Officers May No Longer Hold People to Check for Warrants
A settlement filed Friday will bar N.Y.P.D. officers from detaining people at length as they check databases for reasons to…
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The Days of Doggies in the Window Are Numbered
New York State is banning pet shops from selling dogs, cats and rabbits, starting in 2024, in an effort to…
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Japan Moves to Double Military Spending, With a Wary Eye on China
The Japanese cabinet approved the first update to the country’s official security strategy in nine years, elevating Beijing over North…
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A Child’s Drawing Tucked in an Agatha Christie Book Is Its Own Mystery
A true-crime blogger in Virginia found a hand-drawn card signed “To Mum, love from Kit” in a used copy of…
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Berlin Hotel’s Huge Aquarium Bursts, With 1,500 Fish Inside
A 50-foot-high, 264,000-gallon cylindrical tank called AquaDom, housed in a Radisson in the German capital, spectacularly collapsed, spewing waves of…
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Fire in France Kills at Least 10, Including 5 Children
Firefighters managed to put out the blaze, in a seven-floor building near Lyon, in central France. It was unclear how…
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North Korea Says It Has Tested a New ICBM Engine
The statement, issued Friday, followed an order from the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, to develop a new ICBM that is…
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Your Friday Briefing
Allegations of a bribery scheme at the heart of the E.U.