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Europe
A Battle of the Bubbles: War Comes to the Prosecco Hills
VALDOBBIADENE, ITALY — Small pickup trucks carrying mounds of green grapes wound through Prosecco Road. Workers harvesting in the terraced…
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Science
This Parasite Turns Plants Into Zombies
A mustard plant infected with a certain parasite grows strangely, its development warped by tiny invaders. Its leaves take on…
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Real Estate
New Supertalls Test the Limits, as the City Consults an Aging Playbook
The skyscrapers of New York’s so-called Billionaires’ Row in Midtown Manhattan have something in common besides eye-watering prices: The city…
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Real Estate
Steven Mnuchin Sells a Duplex on Park Avenue for $22.5 Million
Apartments at the ultraexpensive 220 Central Park South continue to appreciate in value in resales. The financier Richard Leibovitch just…
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America
Fashion Mogul Set to Face Sex-Trafficking Charges in U.S.
OTTAWA — Peter Nygard, the Canadian former fashion executive who was once given to boasting about his flamboyant lifestyle, waived…
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Science
The Marvelous Physics of Swarming Midges
On early autumn afternoons across the temperate world, the midges are now gathering to swarm: clouds of tiny flies, wings…
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Europe
He Sees Migrants as ‘Modern Slaves,’ and Has Devoted His Life to Helping Them
Sept. 24, 2021, 10:31 a.m. ET BRUSSELS — Wherever he goes in St. John the Baptist Church in Brussels, the…
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Europe
London Police, Under Fire on Everard Murder, Respond With Safety Tips
LONDON — Hours after the murderer who used his status as a police officer to kidnap, rape and kill Sarah…
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Europe
A fire kills seven people in a Romanian hospital’s Covid ward.
A fire tore through the intensive care unit of a Romanian hospital where Covid patients were being treated on Friday,…
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Europe
In Portugal, There Is Virtually No One Left to Vaccinate
Portugal’s health care system was on the verge of collapse. Hospitals in the capital, Lisbon, were overflowing and the authorities…