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In the days since the Atlanta shooting, fuller pictures of almost all the victims have emerged as their families mourn.
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Nawal Saadawi, an Egyptian feminist whose writings have long stirred controversy in an overwhelming conservative society, has died in Cairo, officials say.
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Lawmakers and activists say if the suspect in the deadly Atlanta-area shootings had been forced to wait before getting a gun, he might not have acted on his impulse.
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State media report that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III has arrived in Kabul, amid questions about how long U.S. troops will remain in the country.
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The first case of a coronavirus variant known as the Brazilian variant has been confirmed in New York.
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A Florida couple who spent decades as missionaries and ministers died 15 minutes apart of COVID-19
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Several Myanmar police officers who fled to India after defying army orders to shoot opponents of last month’s coup are asking for asylum.
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“We’ve never seen an epidemic that was polarized politically before,” said Robert J. Blendon, a health policy scholar at Harvard.
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Miami Beach officials are imposing an emergency curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., saying spring break crowds crammed the beaches, trashed restaurants and brawled in the streets.
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Officials say a man charged with beating to death a New Jersey resident he said sexually abused him as a child now claims to have killed a total of 16 people.
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Hundreds of people gathered in a park across from the Georgia state Capitol in Atlanta to demand justice for the victims of shootings at massage businesses this week.
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U.S. officials recorded 100,441 encounters with migrants at the border last month — nearly triple the total in February 2020.
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The Persian New Year, Nowruz, begins on the first day of spring but it is clear just how little the country has changed.
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Turkey has withdrawn from a European treaty protecting women from violence that bears the name of its largest city.
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Scientists and veterinarians are racing to protect animals from the coronavirus — often using the same playbook for minimizing disease spread among people.
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A strong earthquake struck Saturday off northern Japan, shaking buildings as far away as Tokyo and triggering a tsunami advisory.
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Top defense officials from India and the U.S. pledged to expand their military engagement, underscoring their strengthening defense ties.
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The CDC relaxed some of its guidelines for schools, shrinking the distance required in certain classroom situations from six to three feet.
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The deadly Atlanta-area spa shootings have raised questions about the history of hate crime laws and why so few hate crimes are prosecuted.
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The killings cast a spotlight on the knotted intersection of several dangerous ideologies that cannot be readily untangled.
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Drew Pavlou’s battle against the University of Queensland illustrates China’s influence over a key U.S. ally.
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. makes chips for iPhones, video game consoles and fighter jets. Now it’s being forced to choose sides.
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In U.S.-China dispute over missile defense system, Beijing punishes South Korea by restricting tourism and holding trade hostage.
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Beijing’s aggressive South China Sea expansion shows its willingness to defy international laws for President Xi Jinping’s visions of power.
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China’s paramount leader, Xi Jinping, sees himself as a savior, anointed to steer the Communist Party and China away from corruption and foreign influence, into a ‘new era’ of prosperity, power and political devotion. Whether his vision matches reality is another question.
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China’s oppression of Muslims reaches beyond Xinjiang into Pakistan. Why does it stay quiet?
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China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s ‘purification’ of classrooms: A new law erases history, silences teachers and rewrites books
China’s crackdown on Hong Kong is purging teachers, rewriting textbooks and increasing pressure on schools over what to put in the minds of students. A new national security law has endangered freedom of thought and expression.
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Here’s what we know about the victims in the attacks on three Atlanta-area spas that left eight people dead, including six women of Asian descent.
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Italy, where the coronavirus first appeared outside China and ravaged the country’s north, is experiencing yet another wave of serious COVID-19 cases.
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U.S. officials recorded 100,441 encounters with migrants at the border last month — nearly triple the total in February 2020.
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The killings cast a spotlight on the knotted intersection of several dangerous ideologies that cannot be readily untangled.
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A Florida couple who spent decades as missionaries and ministers died 15 minutes apart of COVID-19
