Europe
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‘Caroling on the Edge’: A Christmas Tradition Returns
LONDON — Last Thursday night, many people in Britain were worrying about the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, and whether…
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Cashing In Grandma’s Gold Coins, a Turkish Family Struggles to Get By
ISTANBUL — The list of things that Bilal, a Turkish factory worker, and his family have had to give up…
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France finds over 180,000 fake Covid passes, and Italy makes arrests in suspected false inoculations.
Several countries in Europe are reporting growing instances of fake Covid passes and vaccination certificates — an indication that the…
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How the Kremlin Is Militarizing Russian Society
MOSCOW — Stepping onto a podium in heavy boots and military fatigues at a ceremony outside Moscow, six teenagers accepted…
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Your Tuesday Briefing
The streets of Amsterdam were quiet on Monday. Credit...Peter Dejong/Associated PressAnother Covid Christmas for Europe and the U.S. New ...
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Crack Down Hard, or Wait and See? Europe Splits on Omicron Response.
PARIS — The Dutch can now invite only two guests to their homes as part of a new lockdown. In…
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U.K. Foreign Secretary Inherits Thorny Issue: Northern Ireland Talks
LONDON — Her admirers see Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary and a rising political star, as a potential successor to…
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U.S. and Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault
WASHINGTON — In the closing days of 2015, the lights went out across a swath of Ukraine as Russian hackers…
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A Panettone Baked in Prison, and It’s One of Italy’s Best
Panettone is the Italian national Christmas cake, and it is notoriously tricky to perfect. So when the version from Pasticceria…
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As Europe Returns Artifacts, Britain Stays Silent
LONDON — In 1984, Neil Kinnock, then leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, did something few politicians here have dared:…