People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One.
PARIS — Fatima Daas was used to not reading about people like her. Her debut novel was a chance to remedy this. Based on her own life, that book …
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After 15 Months in U.S. Prisons, She Now Sits in Russia’s Parliament
MOSCOW — When Russia’s lower house of Parliament, or Duma, assembled last month for the first time following elections in September, one of its …
1946: U.K. Launches Campaign for Roosevelt Statue
Credit…International Herald TribuneFrom the Herald Tribune Bureau LONDON, Nov. 18. — Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee launched a campaign last …
Austria announces a lockdown and vaccination mandate for all.
Austria will go into a nationwide lockdown on Monday and impose a coronavirus vaccination mandate next February, Chancellor Alexander …
Los líderes de EE. UU., Canadá y México muestran unidad y evitan los temas controversiales
WASHINGTON — El presidente Joe Biden recibió al primer ministro de Canadá, Justin Trudeau, y al presidente mexicano Andrés Manuel López Obrador …
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Migrants turned back from the border with Poland walked to a shelter in Belarus.Credit…James Hill for The New York TimesBorder standoff between …
Belarus Clears Migrant Camp, Easing Border Standoff With Poland
BRUZGI, Belarus — Belarusian authorities on Thursday cleared the encampments at the main border crossing into Poland, where thousands of migrants …
State attorneys general open an inquiry into Instagram’s impact on teens.
A bipartisan group of state attorneys general said on Thursday they had opened an investigation into Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook …
The Netherlands aims to keep its schools open, even as cases soar among young people.
The coronavirus’s rapid spread through schools in the Netherlands has prompted some experts to call for extending this winter’s Christmas break …
The Czech Republic prepares for new restrictions as cases soar.
Leaders in the Czech Republic said on Thursday that further Covid restrictions would be introduced as the country experiences some of its highest …