Europe
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8 Women and 8 Men: Germany Gets Its First Gender-Equal Cabinet
BERLIN — For the first time in 16 years, Germany will be run by a man. But although Angela Merkel…
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Scandal-Shaken Austria Gets Its 3rd Chancellor This Year
Austria swore in a new chancellor, Karl Nehammer, on Monday, the third person in two months to take up the…
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Companies Linked to Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight
MOSCOW — When cybersleuths traced the millions of dollars American companies, hospitals and city governments have paid to online extortionists…
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Bearing Witness to Svalbard’s Fragile Splendor
Mesmerized, I would lean against the railing at the front of the ship, alone, for hours on end. Over the…
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Your Monday Briefing
Shoppers on Oxford Street in London yesterday. Credit...Henry Nicholls/ReutersOmicron cases rise in Europe Dozens of new cases of the Omicron ...
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Spike in Omicron Variant Cases Puts Europe on Edge
LONDON — Dozens of new cases of the Omicron variant were reported in Britain and Denmark on Sunday, adding to…
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What’s Driving Putin’s Ukraine Brinkmanship?
MOSCOW — As the Kremlin masses troops near Ukraine, it is signaling one core conviction: Russia cares more about the…
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Pope, on Lesbos, Laments That for Migrants, ‘Little Has Changed’
LESBOS, Greece — Pope Francis returned Sunday to a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, the site of…
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Britain and Denmark report a rise in known Omicron cases.
Britain and Denmark each reported a rise in confirmed coronavirus cases of the new Omicron variant on Sunday as countries…
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When the Biggest Spenders Aren’t Coming Back Any Time Soon
On Jeju Island in South Korea, the markets have gone dark. In Bangkok, bored hawkers wait around for customers who…