Europe
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Your Friday Briefing
Getting a Covid-19 vaccine in Denver in February.Credit...Kevin Mohatt for The New York TimesU.S. recommendations on booster shots A U.S…
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Europe Tightens Purse Strings to Try to Pressure Poland and Hungary
BRUSSELS — For the past few years, Hungary and Poland have repeatedly gone up against the long-established rules and values…
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In Biden’s Foreign Policy, Friends and Foes Claim Echoes of Trump
At the United Nations’ annual gathering of world leaders this week, President Biden and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken…
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Catalan Separatist Leader Is Arrested in Italy
MADRID — Carles Puigdemont, the former separatist leader of Spain’s Catalonia region, was arrested by Italian police Thursday night on…
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Boris Johnson Cuts a Colorful Swath in U.S., but to What End?
LONDON — He told the world to grow up and accept the challenge of climate change. He made fun of…
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An Uncomfortable Question in France: Are We Still a Great Power?
PARIS — Beneath France’s angry outbursts about a secretive “knife-in-the-back”American deal to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia ...
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In a setback for Apple, the European Union seeks a common charger for all phones.
The European Union unveiled plans on Thursday to make USB-C connectors the standard charging port for all smartphones, tablets and…
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Days Before Germans Vote, Merkel Is Where She Didn’t Want to Be: On the Stump
STRALSUND, Germany — Only days before Germans cast their ballots for a new Parliament and with it a new government…
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The Vibrant Resilience of Castelluccio di Norcia
I do not like lamb. And yet, I had been thinking about the “agnello scottadito alla brace” for five long…
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Oedipus Takes to the Stages in Berlin
BERLIN — “The city reeks with death in her streets,” the chorus laments in Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex.” Thebes is in…