Europe
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Your Friday Briefing
The Westminster subway station in London on Thursday. Credit...Alberto Pezzali/Associated PressAn Omicron wave heads for the U.K. As Britain ...
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A New Ambition for the European Union: ‘Power’
PARIS — President Emmanuel Macron, in a rare news conference, called on Thursday for the European Union to change from…
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Omicron Wave Heads for U.K., but It’s Not Clear How Bad It’ll Be
LONDON — With cases of the Omicron variant doubling every three days and the government doing an about-face on restrictions…
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As Muratov Accepts Nobel, Legacy of His Russian Predecessors Recedes
MOSCOW — Dmitri A. Muratov,the editor of Novaya Gazeta, perhaps Russia’s bravest independent newspaper, will become the third Russian to…
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Danish Leader Is Questioned Over ‘Minkgate’ Cull Driven by Covid Fears
In Denmark, they’re calling it “minkgate.” A government decision last year to cull Denmark’s herd of 17 million minks for…
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Danish Leader Is Questioned Over ‘Minkgate’ Cull Driven by Covid Fears
In Denmark, they’re calling it “minkgate.” A government decision last year to cull Denmark’s herd of 17 million minks for…
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Volkswagen’s C.E.O. stays on board, but loses some responsibilities.
BERLIN — Volkswagen’s chief executive, Herbert Diess, won fresh backing from the automaker’s supervisory board on Thursday, but his ...
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Boris Johnson and Wife, Carrie Johnson, Announce Birth of Second Child
In the middle of one of the more politically perilous weeks of Boris Johnson’s tenure, the British prime minister’s office…
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Europe Pushes New Rules Turning Gig Workers Into Employees
LONDON — In one of the biggest challenges yet to the labor practices at popular ride-hailing and food-delivery services, the…
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Prime Minister of Finland apologizes for clubbing maskless after contact with an infected official.
Prime Minister Sanna Marin of Finland apologized late Wednesday after photographs surfaced of her dancing maskless in a nightclub on…