Escaping the Inferno
Britain’s deadliest fire in more than a century raced from floor to floor, forcing residents to decide: Wait for rescuers or try to escape?
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Photo Credit Why Grenfell Tower Burned: Regulators Put Cost Before Safety
The incineration of the 24-story London high rise, the deadliest fire in Britain in more than a century, was fueled by a regulatory breakdown.
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Photo CreditHe Qinghai/Xinhua, via Associated Press Landslide in China Is Feared to Have Buried Over 140 People
In a village in Sichuan Province, an avalanche of mud and rocks buried as many as 40 homes in a village, officials said.
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Photo Creditvia Associated Press C.I.A. Set Up Secret Back Channel With Syria to Try to Free U.S. Hostage
The Trump administration began searching early on for ways to free Austin Tice, a journalist who has been missing since 2012.
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Changing Climate, Changing Cities
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Photo Credit The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.
In the waterlogged Netherlands, climate change is considered neither a hypothetical nor a drag on the economy. Instead, it’s an opportunity.
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Photo Credit Rising Waters Threaten China’s Rising Cities
In the Pearl River Delta, breakneck development is colliding with the effects of climate change.
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Photo Credit Mexico City, Parched and Sinking, Faces a Water Crisis
Climate change is threatening to push a crowded capital toward a breaking point.
Europe
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Photo Credit Immigration Moves Front and Center in Italy’s Local Elections
Parties and politicians took a tougher stance ahead voting on Sunday, from Lampedusa in the south to Lake Como, where the Swiss border beckons migrants.
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Photo Credit The Times’s Resident Expert for a World on Fire
Canada, Portugal, London: How the fire expertise of our Phoenix bureau chief informs our global reporting.
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Photo Credit Germany Wipes Slate Clean for 50,000 Men Convicted Under Anti-Gay Law
The Parliament voted unanimously to void the convictions of those prosecuted under a law forbidding sex between men. The law was repealed in 1994.
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Guilty Plea by Ulster Loyalist May Shed Light on Police Collusion
Gary Haggarty, a former Protestant paramilitary leader in Northern Ireland’s Troubles, pleaded guilty on Friday to hundreds of crimes committed while he was also a police informant.
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Photo Credit Turkey Drops Evolution From Curriculum, Angering Secularists
A chapter on evolution will no longer appear in ninth graders’ textbooks because it is considered too “controversial” an idea, an education official said.
Asia
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Photo Credit South Korea Leader Hopes for Unified Olympic Team With the North
If the North and the South form a team for the Winter Games next year, it would represent a major milestone in inter-Korean relations.
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State Dept. Moves to Shut Office Planning Afghanistan Strategy
The office of the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, created in early 2009, will be folded back into a State Department bureau.
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Photo Credit Maritime Mystery: Why a U.S. Destroyer Failed to Dodge a Cargo Ship
Lookouts and radar operators on the destroyer Fitzgerald should have spotted the freighter it collided with, and the captain should have been wakened.
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Photo Credit Bombings in Pakistan Kill Dozens, Putting Country on Edge
The attacks, before an important Muslim holiday, raised concerns about the growing challenges facing Pakistan’s security forces.
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Photo Credit Europe and Japan Near Trade Deal as U.S. Takes Protectionist Path
The European Union and Japan are close to an agreement that would bring together two giants encompassing a quarter of the world’s economy.
Middle East
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Saudi Arabia, Waging War in Yemen, Gives It $66.7 Million in Cholera Relief
The $66.7 million donation authorized by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman followed a plea by United Nations agencies dealing with the outbreak, worsened by the war.
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Photo Credit Saudi Security Forces Intercept Militants Plotting Mecca Attack
The authorities confronted militants in three places, and one of them blew himself up, wounding five security officers and six bystanders.
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As U.S. Kills ISIS Leaders, a Notorious One Remains Elusive
American officials say they have no concrete evidence on whether the most well-known Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the target of a long manhunt, is alive or dead.
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Photo Credit Arab Nations Demand Qatar Shut Al Jazeera, Cut Islamist Ties and Detail Funding
The demands risked pulling other powers deeper into the rift by calling on the country to shut down a Turkish military base and to downgrade its ties with Iran.
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Photo Credit Loose Definition of Terrorism Upends a Syrian Asylum Seeker’s Life
Radwan Ziadeh, a dissident who faced persecution in Syria, has been denied asylum because of a measure that targets even groups the United States supports.
Canada
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Photo Credit Canada Letter: Trudeau Talks to Us, and a New Name
A lively event in Toronto with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and a 360-degree view from inside an igloo are highlights from a week of expanded Canada coverage.
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The Saturday Profile
Photo Credit The Man Who Helped Turn Toronto Into a High-Tech Hotbed
Geoffrey Hinton, a scientist at the heart of artificial intelligence’s recent breakthroughs, has helped make Toronto a leading research location.
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Photo Credit Tragedies and Triumphs: Canadians Tell Their Family Histories
Readers shared stories of their family’s earliest histories in the land now called Canada.
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Photo Credit Canada’s Edgy 150th Birthday Rebranding
An artist considers some possible national rebranding for the occasion of Canada's birthday.
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Photo Credit Trudeau on Trump: ‘He Actually Does Listen’
The Canadian prime minister spoke about President Trump, Twitter and Nafta at an event in Toronto organized by The New York Times and the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto.
Americas
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Photo Credit Bermuda Hopes the America’s Cup Doesn’t Go Sailing Away
Residents, and turtles, feel the impact of the biggest international event in the archipelago’s history. One group hopes it will linger.
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Photo Credit U.S. Suspends Beef Imports From Brazil
The decision by the Department of Agriculture, citing safety concerns, is a blow to Brazil’s meat industry, which is reeling from bribery accusations.
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Photo Credit Mexican President Says Government Acquired Spyware but He Denies Misuse
President Enrique Peña Nieto acknowledged that his government had purchased sophisticated spyware from Israel but he denied ordering surveillance of his critics.
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Critic's Notebook
Photo Credit Expo 2017: Utopia, Rebooted
Five exhibitions celebrate Expo 67, revisiting that watershed moment of a great futuristic fair in Montreal, 50 years ago.
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The Interpreter
Photo Credit Canada’s Trump Strategy: Go Around Him
The Trudeau government appears to be bypassing the Trump administration, taking its business directly to mayors, governors and Congress.
Africa
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U.N. to Investigate Reports of Government-Backed Slaughter in Congo
The United Nations’ human rights chief, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, said even babies had been mutilated by a government-linked militia and insurgents.
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Photo Credit U.N. Asks International Court to Weigh In on Britain-Mauritius Dispute
In a blow to Britain, the General Assembly voted to refer London’s territorial dispute with a former colony to the International Court of Justice.
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Ghana Court Rejects Resettlement of Guantánamo Bay Detainees
The Supreme Court justices ruled that Ghana’s government erred in approving the transfer of two Yemeni detainees.
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Photo Credit Why Migrants Keep Risking All on the ‘Deadliest Route’
The grim fates of two Senegalese brothers match those of a growing number of young African men who are determined to reach Europe — or die trying.
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Photo Credit Man Charged With Stabbing Officer at Airport Had Tried to Buy a Gun, F.B.I. Says
The suspect is a married father of three described by his landlord in Montreal as never causing any problems.
Australia
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Photo Credit A Homeless ‘Safe Space’ Challenges Australia’s Power Brokers
In downtown Sydney, opposite the Reserve Bank of Australia, the needy and outraged gather in an unsanctioned shelter to sleep, cook, read and question inequality.
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Letter 15
Photo Credit From Courtney Barnett to Beer Snake
In this week’s newsletter, readers share their most meaningful cultural experiences.
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Photo Credit Australia Grapples With Campus Assaults, and Reprisals Against Victims
Women are speaking out about attacks, harassment and the tepid official response at Australian universities, and facing a backlash from a hypermasculine society.
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Photo Credit Investigating the Response to Sexual Assault in Australia
How are universities and other institutions in Australia responding to sexual assault and sexual harassment? To inform our coverage, we’re asking readers to contribute their stories.
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Photo Credit The Kiwis’ Edge in America’s Cup: Drones
Nick Bowers uses drones to shoot spectacular sailing footage, which earned him a place with innovative Team New Zealand, an America’s Cup finalist.
Editorials and Op-Eds
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Contributing Op-Ed Writer
Photo Credit Of Allah, Charity and Taxes
Why do Pakistanis balk at paying religious taxes to the state but rush to give to charity?
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Editorial
Photo Credit Catalonia’s Challenge to Spain
Madrid’s opposition to an independence referendum has probably boosted enthusiasm for a measure with questionable support.
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Op-Ed Contributor
Photo Credit Trump’s Withdrawal From the Paris Agreement Challenges Latin America
Proposed budget cuts, combined with the decision to pull out of the climate change accord, put into question how long cooperation will continue.
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Op-Ed Contributor
Photo Credit I Can’t Return to Syria. But Canada Doesn’t Want Me.
There were no handshakes from Trudeau, no sponsors to support me. Just a daily battle to remain in the country I love.
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Photo Credit Throw the Bums Out, Global Edition
Parties in power, on the right and left, have suffered a series of stinging rebukes in elections across the globe over the past year.
