Europe
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After Months, a ‘New’ Dutch Coalition With the Same Leader and Parties
After nine months of negotiations among a group of fractious political parties after an election in the spring, the Netherlands…
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Britain breaks a daily record for new cases.
LONDON — Britain reported 78,610 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the highest number of infections in a single day since…
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Many Turks Can’t Afford Bread, and Bakers Can’t Afford to Make It
ISTANBUL — A line of glum-faced people wrapped up against the rain stood along the street outside a government bread…
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Iran Agrees to Replace Cameras at Nuclear Site but Blocks Images
BRUSSELS — Faced with a potential vote of censure by the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear…
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France Refused to Repatriate a Sick Woman Who Joined the Islamic State. She Died.
PARIS — A Frenchwoman who joined the Islamic State and had been held in a detention camp in Syria since…
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Vaccine Opponents in Germany Investigated Over Plot to Kill State Governor
BERLIN — The authorities in the eastern German city of Dresden said Wednesday that they had searched the homes and…
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Russian Is Convicted in Murder of Chechen Man in a Berlin Park
BERLIN — A German court sentenced a Russian man to life in prison on Wednesday for the murder of a…
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Terry Gilliam’s Disputed Sondheim Show Finds a Home
LONDON — For weeks, a question hung over London theater: What would happen to Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”? On…
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In a Time of Crisis, a City Fights Isolation
FROME, England — For more than a thousand years this market city was best known for products made from wool…
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Your Wednesday Briefing
Experts hope Paxlovid can treat the worst of the disease, no matter the variant.Credit...Pfizer, via Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPromising…