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- Your Thursday Briefing
- As Pandemic Hits Colleges, Some Students Struggle for Food and Housing
- Derek Chauvin trial: George Floyd's girlfriend tells of first kiss and addiction
- Covid: Europe's vaccine rollout 'unacceptably slow' - WHO
- Myanmar coup: More than 40 children killed by military, rights group says
- Children dropped over US border wall
- French government condemns reality TV 'virginity test'
- Italy Russia arrest: Wife of navy 'spy' reveals dire finances
- Nathan Baggaley: Olympian tried to smuggle $150m of cocaine
- Venice bans cruise ships from historic centre
- Stokes twins: YouTubers plead guilty over fake bank robbery
- Dutch government to let 3,500 fans watch Eurovision Song Contest
- WHO Covid report leaves many stones unturned
- Covid: Will your pet need a coronavirus vaccine?
- Amazon v the union: The vote the online giant fears
- Sexual Violence Pervades Ethiopia’s War in Tigray Region
- Myanmar Soldiers, Aiming to Silence Coup Protests, Target Journalists
- Japan Is Finding It Harder to Stay Quiet on China’s Abuse of Uyghurs
- Merkel’s Latest Pandemic Challenge: Leading as a Lame Duck
- 150,000 Painted Hearts, Each for a Life Lost to Covid-19 in Britain
- Italy Bans Cruise Liners From Venetian Lagoon, With a Catch
- BBC's John Sudworth Leaves China, Citing Growing Risks
- Your Friday Briefing
- London Police Officer Convicted of Membership in Neo-Nazi Group
- If You Build It, They Will Bike: Pop-Up Lanes Increased Cycling During Pandemic
- The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and Stan in Australia in April
- Taiwan: Dozens killed as train crashes and derails in tunnel
- Evidence suggests Ethiopian military carried out massacre in Tigray
- Dutch PM Rutte narrowly survives no-confidence vote
- Stock markets hit new records on Biden spending plan
- Australia: Geologist beaten up by 'angriest octopus' on beach
- Sachin Tendulkar: India cricket legend in hospital with Covid-19
- James Charles: YouTube star admits messaging 16-year-old boys
- USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck
- Italian restaurant owner wrongly targeted by US sanctions
- Nike wins lawsuit over 'Satan Shoes' with human blood
- Oxfam suspends two aid workers amid sex exploitation claims in DR Congo
- 'The grim reality of reporting in China that pushed me out’
- Solitary confinement: New York bans prison isolation over 15 days
- Africa's week in pictures: 26 March-1 April 2021
- Then and now: Rising temperatures threaten corals
- Celebrities in Australia anger stranded citizens over 'double standard'
- Riz Ahmed: 'Listening is not just with your ears'
- Taiwan: Rescue efforts after train derailment
- Derek Chauvin trial: Footage shows paramedics responding to Floyd arrest
- Ieva Lesinska: 'I discovered my father was a spy'
- Taiwan Train Crash Kills At Least 36 People, Injuring Dozens
- Vaccine ‘Fiasco’ Damages Europe’s Credibility
- Shut Out on Vaccines, Tiny San Marino Turns to Old Friend: Russia
- ‘Mommy, I Have Bad News’: For Child Migrants, Mexico Can Be the End of the Road
- A Rapper, Hitting His 30s, Reinvents Himself as a Scion of Spanish Pop
- Is the Fight Against Sexism in Australia’s Politics Different This Time?
- Your Friday Briefing
- Russian 'troop build-up' near Ukraine alarms Nato
- Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: World powers condemn 'human rights abuses'
- China 'driving out journalists', EU says after BBC's Sudworth leaves
- U.S. and Iran Agree to Indirect Talks on Returning to Nuclear Deal
- ‘They Have No One’: At 88, a Transgender Icon Combats Loneliness Among Seniors
- After Claims of Sexual Abuse, Oxfam Suspends 2 Workers in Africa
- Myanmar’s Bloodshed Reveals a World That Has Changed, and Hasn’t
- A Chinese ‘Auntie’ Went on a Solo Road Trip. Now, She’s a Feminist Icon.
- Johnson & Johnson Adds Adolescents to Covid Vaccine Tests
- U.K. Reports More Blood-Clotting Cases in People Who Received AstraZeneca Shot
- US Capitol under lockdown after security threat
- Dinosaur-killing asteroid strike gave rise to Amazon rainforest
- Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind woman refused rides
- Anna Sorokin: Fake heiress detained by US immigration authorities
- Chicago police urged to share bodycam video in fatal shooting of boy, 13
- Russian surgeons perform heart op despite hospital fire in Blagoveshchensk
- Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France
- Mark Rutte: Survivor of Dutch politics in fight for political life
- Fatigue Outpaces Progress as France Enters Yet Another Lockdown
- Russian Ex-Con of U.S. Penal System Meets, Taunts Imprisoned Navalny
- Coronavirus Vaccine ‘Fiasco’ Damages Europe’s Credibility
- ‘The Angriest Octopus’ Lashes at a Tourist on an Australian Beach
- 5,000 Flee as Venezuela Launches Largest Military Campaign in Decades
- David Cameron Comes Under the Spotlight for His Business Dealings
- Crowds Lured by a Hoax Concert Clash With Belgian Police
- Vaccinated Americans Can Travel, C.D.C. Says
- Derek Chauvin trial: Homicide chief criticises force used on George Floyd
- Taiwan: Prosecutors seek arrest after train crash which killed 50
- Covid-19: Italy begins strict Easter lockdown
- India Covid: Maharashtra to go into lockdown unless cases fall
- Belgian police 'are supposed to protect us'
- MLB: All-Star Game leaves Georgia to protest voting law
- US lifts Trump-era sanctions against ICC prosecutor
- Street racing: They're fast, Atlanta's furious
- The women fighting South Africa's 'infodemic'
- Week in pictures: 27 March - 2 April 2021
- Ros Atkins On… Macron’s Covid-19 Crisis
- US Capitol: Suspect and officer dead after 'ramming car' into police
- World’s largest ocean monitoring system BRUVS launched
- Derek Chauvin trial: Officer gives rare testimony against fellow officer
- ‘A Really Good Moment’ for Canada in Washington
- The US Travel Industry Welcomes the Prospective Return of the Vaccinated
- Alabama to Open Vaccination to People 16 and Older
- Maryland’s vaccine rollout shows the hurdles that other states could face.
- Baseball’s back, and it’s ‘good to hear humans in the stands.’
- Turning to Russia, San Marino gave its vaccination campaign a jump start.
- Scientists say they still don’t know whether vaccinated people can spread the virus.
- Jordan's Prince Hamzah bin Hussein 'under house arrest'
- Covid-19: France enters third national lockdown amid ICU surge
- Florida declares state of emergency over toxic wastewater leak
- Amazon apologises for wrongly denying drivers need to urinate in bottles
- Rapper DMX in hospital after heart attack
- Graffiti art defaced by spectators at South Korea gallery
- Egypt mummies pass through Cairo in ancient rulers' parade
- Suez Canal traffic jam caused by stuck ship Ever Given 'cleared'
- Bridgerton fans mourn as Regé-Jean Page's exit confirmed for second season
- Spain drug bust: 'Speedboat smugglers' arrested
- Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal'
- Long lost pen pals reunited after 70 years
- Project 17: Solving Singapore's food waste problem
- Jordan Arrests High-Profile Figures, and Ex-Crown Prince Cries Foul
- ‘Like a Miracle’: Israel’s Vaccine Success Allows Easter Crowds in Jerusalem
- With Swarms of Ships, Beijing Tightens Its Grip on South China Sea
- They Survived Taiwan’s Train Crash. Their Loved Ones Did Not.
- 22 Mummies Are Moved in a Glittering Display in Cairo
- In Turkey’s Failed Coup, Trainees Face the Same Stiff Punishments as Generals
- Thousands Protest Against Policing Bill in Britain, With Clashes in London
- Women, 86 Percent Absent From Jordan’s Work Force, Are Left Behind
- Alabama Basketball Superfan Dies
- Kenya Blocks Private Covid Vaccine Imports on Fear of Fakes
- Argentina’s President Tests Positive for Coronavirus Despite Vaccination
- Bangladesh and Parts of India Look to Lockdowns Amid Surges
- This week in Covid news: Global inequities in vaccine doses; travel advice from the C.D.C.; and Cuomo’s book.
- As U.S. Shots Near 3 Million Daily, Experts Warn of Complacency
- Benjamin Netanyahu trial: Israel PM made 'illegitimate use' of power
- Taiwan train crash: Lorry boss offers 'deep remorse'
- Floods and landslides in Indonesia and East Timor kill more than 100
- Bernard Tapie: French tycoon and wife attacked in home
- Screen Actors Guild Awards: Trial of Chicago 7 takes top prize
- Adopting in the age of opioids
- LG scraps its smartphone business as losses mount
- Jordan accuses Prince Hamzah of plot to destabilise kingdom
- Women charged for refusing Irish hotel quarantine
- India Covid: Maharashtra state to see curfew and weekend lockdown
- Covid Greece: Waiting for the tourists to come back
- Covid in Kenya: The woman who refuses to be defeated by the virus
- The Myanmar beauty queen standing up to the military
- Gundecha Brothers: Famous Indian music gurus accused of sexual assault
- Patria y Vida: Cuba's rap battle with dissidents
- Egypt mummies: Parade transports remains of pharaohs
- Myanmar's Military Has Killed Over 40 Children Since the Coup. Here's One Child's Story.
- My Life in Israel’s Brave New Post-Pandemic Future
- France's Outspoken Student Union Positions Itself at the Vanguard of Change
- U.S. Looks to Build on Secret Portions of Taliban Deal to Reduce Violence
- Climbers Return to Mt. Everest Despite Covid-19
- Maoist Insurgents Kill 23 Indian Forces in Ambush, Officials Say
- A Cyclist on the English Landscape
- Your Monday Briefing
- Divided Kingdom: Jordan Shaken by Split Between King and Ex-Crown Prince
- Kristofer Schipper, Influential China Scholar, Dies at 86
- On Easter, Pope France Urges Universal Access to Coronavirus Vaccines
- Floods and Mudslides in Eastern Indonesia Leave at Least 41 Dead
- Taiwan Crash Investigators Focus on How Truck Fell in Train’s Path
- For 36 minutes on Saturday, Broadway was open.
- New York allows in-person services this Easter, but some congregations stay virtual.
- ‘We have gained hope again’: Israel’s successful vaccine campaign makes crowds possible during Holy Week.
- Covid: US rules out federal vaccine passports
- George Floyd death: Chauvin 'trained to stay away from neck'
- Dutch arrest over Van Gogh and Frans Hals museum thefts
- Arkansas bans transgender youth treatment
- Dutch crew rescued from 'near-capsize'
- Kim Kardashian West joins billionaire club
- Bronze Age slab found in France is oldest 3D map in Europe
- IMF forecasts stronger recovery for world economy
- Iran nuclear deal: US joins Vienna talks aimed at reviving accord
- Paris hits back at filthy streets hashtag campaign
- 'Mrs Sri Lanka' beauty queen injured in on-stage bust-up
- Covid surge in South America as Brazil variant spreads
- Jordan Prince Hamzah: How Saudi Arabia fits into the crisis
- Why Utah is making men pay women's pregnancy costs
- Greenland election: Melting ice and mining project on the agenda
- Five animals to spot in a post-Covid financial jungle
- The sailor living alone on an abandoned cargo ship
- Khraniteli: The Soviet take on Lord of the Rings
- How one woman discovered her true cultural heritage
- China one-child policy: can dropping limits increase birth rates?
- Stolen ambulance sends Texas police on two-hour chase
- Hazmat crew called in to clean US house
- Terezin: The former WW2 ghetto falling into ruin
- Devastation from Storms Fuels Migration in Honduras
- Syrian Refugees in Rebel Controlled Idlib Are Stuck in Limbo
- Netanyahu Gets First Crack at Forming a New Government in Israel
- Possible Side Effects of AstraZeneca Vaccine Come Into Sharper Focus
- As Jordan Seeks to Quell Royal Feud, Allies of Prince Remain in Detention
- Vaccine Passports, Covid’s Next Political Flash Point
- Iran and U.S. Agree on Path Back to Nuclear Deal
- Navalny Is Moved to Infirmary as His Health Declines
- H&M and Other Brands Face Backlash From Chinese Consumers
- China’s Covid-19 Vaccination Drive Includes Free Ice Cream
- Covid-19 in France: Secret Dinner Parties for Elite Sets Off Outrage
- U.K. Community Leaders Fight Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation
- The Iran Nuclear Talks Explained
- Australia's #MeToo Moment Has Started in Parliament
- Shamed Over Sex, a Generation of Evangelicals Confronts the Past | Retro Report
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- Hans Küng, Catholic Theologian With a Powerful Critique, Dies at 93
- More Than 1,800 Prisoners Are Broken Out of Jail in Nigeria
- N.Y.C. public school students can opt back in to standardized testing this year.
- Three Million Daily Shots, Achieved
- The ‘Joy and Envy’ of Vaccine FOMO
- Imagining the Timeless Childhood of Beverly Cleary’s Portland
- He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West.
- North Korea Bows Out of Tokyo Olympics, Citing Covid-19
- Those 16 or Older in NJ Will be Eligible for a Vaccine on April 19
- Your Tuesday Briefing
- Boris Johnson Announces Free Coronavirus Tests and Status Certificates for England
- Pink Dolphins in Hong Kong Find Respite Thanks to the Coronavirus
- China Tries to Counter Xinjiang Backlash With … a Musical?
- Rift in Jordan’s Royal Leadership Is Soothed, Palace Says
- Netanyahu Corruption Trial Opens in Israel
- Bangladesh Collision Between Cargo Ship and Ferry Leaves 27 Dead
- Climbers Return to Mount Everest With Covid-19 Precautions
- The plan for post-pandemic life in England includes free testing and Covid certificates.
- Biden’s Judge Push
- Millions of white evangelicals do not intend to get vaccinated.
- Researchers Are Hatching a Low-Cost Covid-19 Vaccine
- Israel offers a hint of what post-pandemic life may look like.
- My Life in Israel’s Brave New Post-Pandemic Future
- Kristofer Schipper, Influential China Scholar, Dies at 86
- Covid: Brazil has more than 4,000 deaths in 24 hours for first time
- Amazon's Jeff Bezos backs tax rise on companies
- Jordan's royal rift: A family feud erupts - but who's actually involved?
- Georgia voting: Fact-checking claims about the new election law
- Inner Light: The children surviving conflict in DR Congo
- Chadwick Boseman wins and other SAG Awards highlights
- Israel-Iran Sea Skirmishes Escalate as Mine Damages Iranian Military Ship
- India Covid-19: 'No end in sight' as doctors battle second wave
- US restaurants face ketchup packet shortage amid Covid pandemic
- Your Wednesday Briefing
- Xinjiang cotton: Western brands blurred on China TV
- NYC doormen fired for not intervening in attack
- Dubai deports group over nude balcony shoot
- TikTok: Teen saves boy after seeing crash on livestream
- Crate escape: Search for Irishmen who airmailed Brian Robson home
- With a Big Tax Break, Hong Kong Tries to Soothe the Rich
- In Bid to Boost Its Profile, ISIS Turns to Africa’s Militants
- French winemakers fight frost with fire
- India coronavirus: Can its vaccine producers meet demand?
- Taiwan accuses China of 'vaccine diplomacy' in Paraguay
- Buddhist monk freed from flooded cave in Thailand after four days
- Covid: Can Australia blame its vaccine woes on Europe?
- Iranian 'spy ship' damaged by explosion in Red Sea
- Pharrell Williams calls for investigation after cousin shot dead by police
- A ‘System of Espionage’ Reigned at Ikea, a French Prosecutor Charges
- Covid-19 Live Updates: Nearly 80% of School Workers Have Gotten a Vaccine, C.D.C. Says
- Two Presidents Visited Turkey. Only the Man Was Offered a Chair.
- A Graffiti Artwork in South Korea Was 'Graffitied.'
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