Europe
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‘It felt like a wedding,’ says a refugee Francis brought to Rome from Lesbos in 2016.
After Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos in April 2016, he took 12 Muslim refugees from Syria, including…
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Switzerland backtracks on mandatory quarantines for some foreign visitors.
Switzerland on Saturday dialed back pandemic travel rules announced just a week ago, removing the obligation for some foreign visitorsto…
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Honeybees Survived for Weeks Under Volcano Ash After Canary Islands Eruption
About 50 days after the Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands erupted in September, unleashing lava flows and destroying…
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In France, a Right-Wing Polemicist Tries Channeling De Gaulle to Win Votes
PARIS — The retro choreography was heavy-handed, its intent obvious: Éric Zemmour in a dark tie, eyes averted from the…
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Belgian Port City Grapples With a Flood of Cocaine
ANTWERP, Belgium — As a teenager in the 1980s, Norbert Somers would roam the port of Antwerp, where his father…
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Almudena Grandes, Novelist of Spain’s Marginalized, Dies at 61
MADRID — Almudena Grandes, an award-winning Spanish writer and ardent feminist who shot to fame with an erotic novel about…
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6-Year-Old in International Custody Battle, Is Returning to Italy
ROME — Nearly three months after he was spirited by his grandfather to Israel, setting off an international custody battle,…
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The Demise of the Old Lady
Perhaps the best measure of how concerned Juventus is by image — of how central to the club’s identity is…
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In Cyprus, Pope’s Plea for Migrants Clashes With Island’s Tensions
NICOSIA, Cyprus — On the Greek Cypriot side of this divided island, Pope Francis celebrated an open-air Mass on Friday…
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‘More Democratic, and Less Toxic’: Turning a Troubled Theater Around
BERLIN — This fall, a new era at the Volksbühne theater got off to a curiously muted start. René Pollesch,…