Europe
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Germany will again offer free Covid tests to all adults.
Germany will once again offer free Covid tests to all adults in the country, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on…
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The Show Goes On, Even After China Tried to Shut It Down
BRESCIA, Italy — With a week to go before his first solo exhibition, the Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao was in head-down…
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Police officers search the homes of four people linked to Italy’s ‘No Green Pass’ movement.
The Italian police on Friday searched the homes of four people in Milan affiliated with the “No Green Pass” movement,…
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The Netherlands plans a partial lockdown regardless of vaccination status.
The Netherlands’ government plans to introduce a three-week partial lockdown to quell a fourth wave of Covid infections amid a…
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The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera
LONDON — When the curtain rises on English National Opera’s first installment of a new “Ring” cycle on Nov. 19,…
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Your Friday Briefing
We’re covering Poland’s escalating border situation and skyrocketing Covid deaths across Europe. Migrants in the Grodno region of Belarus, near…
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Migrants in Peril, and Raw Emotions, in a Volatile European Border Standoff
WARSAW — Thousands of migrants, unwilling weapons in a geopolitical struggle, in peril in a freezing border zone. Far-right nationalists…
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The clash over the Belarus-Poland border crisis spills into the U.N. Security Council.
The escalating standoff over the migrants bivouacked in Belarus and blocked from entering Poland and Lithuania spilled into the United…
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Germany’s Fourth Covid Wave: ‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
BERLIN — The University Hospital of Giessen, one of Germany’s foremost clinics for pulmonary disease, is at capacity. The number…
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Austria is likely to order a lockdown for unvaccinated people, its chancellor warns.
New lockdown restrictions for Austria’s unvaccinated population are likely because reports of new coronavirus cases in the country are rising…