Europe
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In Debate Over Conquistadors 500 Years Ago, Spanish Right Sees an Opportunity
MADRID — In a letter to Mexican bishops last month, Pope Francis called for a revisiting of the country’s history,…
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As Johnson Draws a Happy Face, Britons Confront a Run of Bad News
LONDON — Britons are lining up for gas, staring at empty grocery shelves, paying higher taxes and worrying about spiraling…
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Overlooked No More: Violet Piercy, Pioneering Marathoner
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported…
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Budge Patty, Elegant Tennis Champion of the 1950s, Dies at 97
Budge Patty, one of only three Americans to win the French and Wimbledon men’s singles tennis championships in the same…
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A Surprise Sports Hero Broadens Italy’s Image of Itself
ROME — Romans ran laps around Lamont Marcell Jacobs as he stretched his legs on the track. “Ciao champion,” said…
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Austria’s Government Teeters as Sebastian Kurz Faces Corruption Probe
BERLIN — The government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz of Austria teetered near collapse on Friday after federal prosecutors opened a…
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Anti-Nobel sentiment has spawned alternative awards over the years.
The choice of a Nobel Peace Prize recipient has often been viewed by autocratic governments as a provocative and hostile…
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Why Is Poland Fighting the Supremacy of European Union Courts?
BRUSSELS — Poland threw down the gauntlet to the European Union on Thursday when its Constitutional Tribunal issued a judgment…
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Even as it praises the Russian prize winner, the Kremlin steps up its assault on independent news.
Hours after a Russian newspaper editor received the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to “safeguard freedom of expression,” the Russian…
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The Russian Nobel laureate says he would have chosen a different winner: the dissident Aleksei Navalny.
Dmitri A. Muratov, the Russian newspaper editor awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, said he would have given the…