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India Funds New Trains Ahead of Safety Improvements, Analysts Say
Railway workers in India on Sunday at the site of a three-train crash.
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on June 2023
India Vows Punishment for Those Responsible for Deadly Train Crash
Relatives checking the bodies of victims at a school in Balasore, India, on Sunday.
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John
on June 2023
Huge Crowds Protest Poland’s Governing Conservative Party
Supporters and members of Poland’s opposition parties protested against the government’s policies in Krakow on Sunday.
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John
on June 2023
Hong Kong Remembered June 4 Tiananmen Massacre, Until It Couldn’t
Police officers arresting Sanmu Chan, a performance artist, after he yelled, “Hong Kongers, don’t be afraid! Don’t forget June 4,” in Hong Kong on Saturday, before the anniversary of China’s Tiananmen Square massacre.
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John
on June 2023
Zelensky Signals Next Phase of Ukraine War Will Be Grim
The 95th Air Assault Brigade in a wooded position targeting Russian positions in eastern Ukraine on Friday.
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John
on June 2023
A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity
Members of the Doukhobor community during a prayer service last month in Castlegar, British Columbia.
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John
on June 2023
In Israel, Tough Questions Follow Fatal Attack on the Egyptian Border
Israeli soldiers on Sunday in Rishon LeZion, Israel, carrying the coffin of Lia Ben Nun, a soldier who was killed this weekend in a shootout on the border with Egypt.
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John
on June 2023
China and U.S. Offer Rival Visions for Asia
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, left, with John Chipman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. During the meeting in Singapore, Mr. Austin argued for a U.S.-led safety net of well-armed partnerships in Asia.
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John
on June 2023
No Shame. No Sorrow. Divorce Means It’s Party Time in Mauritania.
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John
on June 2023
India’s Train Crash: What We Know
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John
on June 2023
In Russian Schools, It’s Recite Your ABC’s and ‘Love Your Army’
Schoolchildren touring the “Victory Museum,” which is dedicated to Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
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John
on June 2023
Canadian Military and Inuit Rangers Work to Defend Arctic Territory
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John
on June 2023
Russians in Belgorod Region Start Feeling the Ukraine War
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John
on June 2023
2 Students, Punished for Rainbow Flags, Test China’s L.G.B.T.Q. Space
Karolyn Li and Christine Huang in Beijing. The two Tsinghua University students are fighting the education authorities in China over their right to display rainbow flags on campus.
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John
on June 2023
Nazi Symbols on Ukraine’s Front Lines Highlight Thorny Issues of History
A Russian volunteer fighter for the Ukrainian army, wearing a Galizien patch, which have been adopted as symbols of anti-Russian resistance and national pride, in Southern Ukraine, in 2022.
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John
on June 2023
American Kestrels Are in a Puzzling Decline
A tagged kestrel in Harmony Township, N.J., held by John Smallwood, a biology professor at Montclair State University.
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John
on June 2023
In Search of Iceberg Alley’s Spectacular Show
Guests aboard a tour boat approaching an iceberg near the town of Twillingate, Newfoundland.
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John
on June 2023
Oxford, but Not That Oxford: How a Tiny For-Profit School Suddenly Got Big
The Oxford Business College campus this year in Slough, England.
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John
on June 2023
Amsterdam Train Service Resumes After Disruption
Central Station in Amsterdam last year. Train service to and from the Dutch capital resumed on Monday after cancellations on Sunday.
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John
on June 2023
Jacinda Ardern Is Now a Dame, Recognized for Service to New Zealand
Jacinda Ardern at the United Nations’ European headquarters in Geneva last month.
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John
on June 2023
With Prince Harry to Testify in Hacking Case, Royals Prepare to Cringe
Prince Harry leaving the High Court in London in March. He has turned his campaign against the tabloid press into one of the animating causes of his life.
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John
on June 2023
Kathleen Folbigg Is Pardoned; Australian Official Cites ‘New Evidence’
Kathleen Folbigg in 2019, during the first of two official Australian inquiries into her case.
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John
on June 2023
Most Victims Unidentified as Relatives Struggle to Reach India Train Crash Site
Relatives checking the bodies of victims at a high school in Balasore, India, on Sunday.
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John
on June 2023
The Sun Is Calling
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John
on June 2023
Serbia Protests After Mass Shootings Demand Social Changes
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John
on June 2023
A Look at Some of the Deadliest Rail Crashes in India’s Recent History
The 1981 derailment of a passenger train in the Indian state of Bihar that killed an estimated 750 people is believed to be the deadliest rail accident in the country’s history.
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John
on June 2023
3 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Rare Attack on Egyptian Border
An ambulance drove out of a military base after a deadly shooting in southern Israel, along the Egyptian border on Saturday.
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John
on June 2023
U.S. Warns China on Nuclear Rivalry and Vows to Keep Patrolling Region
Chinese intercontinental ballistic missiles on display during a parade in Beijing in 2019.
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John
on June 2023
Modi Arrives at Scene of Deadly Train Crash in Odisha, India
Railway workers used excavators to remove wreckage from the derailment and collision in an effort to bring the tracks back into service.
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John
on June 2023
What Will Be the Theme of Summer?
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John
on June 2023
He’s the Biggest Power Broker in Canada Whom You’ve Never Heard Of
The building across from Parliament that houses the offices of the prime minister and the Privy Council.
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John
on June 2023
Car Bombing in Russian-Occupied Ukraine Shows Reach of War
Members of Ukraine’s 95th Air Assault Brigade fired at Russian positions in eastern Ukraine on Friday.
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John
on June 2023
Vigilante Justice Rises in Haiti and Crime Plummets
Men with machetes, part of a self-defense initiative to keep gangs from gaining control of their neighborhood, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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John
on June 2023
U.S. Defense Secretary Austin Vows to Keep Pressure on China
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday.
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John
on June 2023
Ukraine Investigates Deaths by Shelter as Russia Evacuates Border Towns
A mourner on Friday paying her respects in Kyiv, Ukraine, for a girl who was killed in a Russian bombardment when she and her mother tried but failed to get inside a bomb shelter.
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John
on June 2023
U.S. Will Try to Bring China Into Arms Control Talks
Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, described President Biden’s plans to deal with nuclear threats in a post-Cold War world.
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John
on June 2023
Remains Match Traits of Missing Call Center Workers in Mexico, Officials Say
Forensic experts with several bags of human remains that were extracted from the bottom of a ravine by a helicopter on Wednesday in Zapopan, Jalisco State, Mexico.
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John
on June 2023
India Train Crash: More Than 260 Dead and 900 Injured in Odisha
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John
on June 2023
Blinken Details Russia’s ‘Failures’ in Ukraine and Warns Against Cease-Fires
Antony J. Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, speaking on Friday at Helsinki’s City Hall in Finland.
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John
on June 2023
Ukrainian Recruits, Wanting to Fight, Train in the U.K. for Counteroffensive
Ukrainian soldiers take part in urban combat exercises at a British Army military base in Northern England on Friday.
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John
on June 2023
Analyzing Shiv’s Decision on ‘Succession’ With a Feminist Text
Matthew Macfadyen and Sarah Snook in the “Succession” series finale.
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John
on June 2023
Ukrainian Shelling in Russia’s Belgorod Region Forces Evacuations
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John
on June 2023
After Mass Shootings in Serbia, Few Want to Give Up Their Guns
A vigil in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, after a deadly school shooting in May. Patchy enforcement of gun laws has left a large number of weapons illegally in private hands.
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John
on June 2023
Senegal Blocks Some Social Media After Ousmane Sonko Is Sentenced
Demonstrators clash with riot policemen at a neighborhood in Dakar, Senegal, on Friday.
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John
on June 2023
The Three Other Trump Investigations
Former President Donald Trump raises his fists to supporters after a rally campaigning for GOP presidential nomination in Manchester, NH on April 27, 2023.
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John
on June 2023
Sparrows Are the Main Suspects in a Bird-Nest Murder
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John
on June 2023
She Lost Her Career, Family and Freedom. She’s Still Fighting to Change Iran.
Narges Mohammadi at her home in Tehran last year during a medical furlough from prison.
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John
on June 2023
As War Persists in Ukraine, Doctors Warn of Rise in Premature Births
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John
on June 2023
Alli Smith, of the Cornell Ornithology Laboratory, offers beginner tips for exploring the wide world of birds.
Indigo Goodson took up birding during the pandemic and now goes everywhere with “binoculars in tow,” she said. “My friends get annoyed.”
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John
on June 2023
Big, Incredible Journeys in an Incredibly Big Country
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John
on June 2023
Your Friday Briefing
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that his country was “ready to join NATO.”
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John
on June 2023
Russian Missiles Kill 3 in Kyiv, Including Mother and 9-Year-Old Girl
Emergency workers and the mother of a woman killed in an overnight missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, stand near the body on Thursday.
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John
on June 2023
Eusebius McKaiser, Acerbic South African Political Analyst, Dies at 44
Eusebius McKaiser traced many of South Africa’s social problems to the apartheid era, and wrote about them for South Africans and a broader Western audience.
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John
on June 2023
With a New, Improved ‘Einstein,’ Puzzlers Settle a Math Problem
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John
on June 2023
U.K. Government Refuses to Give Boris Johnson’s Texts to Covid Inquiry
Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, leaving home in London in March.
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John
on June 2023