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World
U.K. Election Turnout Set to Be Lowest in Over 20 Years
Participation in Britain’s general election was predicted to be at 60 percent, according to the BBC, close to a record low, in a shift that appeared to reflect disillusionment with mainstream politics. Keir Starmer is becoming prime minister after a ...
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US
Varying Treatment of Biden and Trump Puts Their Parties in Stark Relief
Republicans and Democrats live in radically different universes, interpreting the same set of facts through radically different lenses.
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Newyork
Notes From a Formerly Unpromising Young Person
In 2007 my email inbox dinged with a name I recognized but hadn’t seen in more than 20 years. I was living at the time in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, working as a journalist. I recorded stories from across Southeast Asia for public radio and was about to ...
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World
Australian Author’s Novel-Turned-Film Goes Global
Lily Brett’s delight is bittersweet as “Too Many Men,” her story about traveling with her father, becomes a movie he did not live to see.
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World
Man Who Stabbed South Korea’s Opposition Leader Is Sentenced to 15 Years
The attack on Lee Jae-myung in January raised alarms about South Korea’s political polarization. His assailant was convicted of attempted murder.
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Newyork
Don’t Doubt NATO. It Saved My People.
Some in the United States have downplayed the importance of NATO. Many European partners worry that after the U.S. presidential election in November, the American commitment to the alliance will wane. But as NATO prepares for the start of its summit ...
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World
Jeremy Corbyn Wins Election Against Labour, Party He Once Led
Jeremy Corbyn, an independent candidate running for Parliament, won his seat against a candidate from the Labour party, which he once led. It was a vindication for Mr. Corbyn, who was running for the first time against the party he led from 2015 to ...
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Books
The Dazzling Artistry of Hiroshige’s ‘100 Famous Views of Edo’
It’s actually 118 at the Brooklyn Museum, and the more the better. These vivid color woodblocks have much to teach Instagram, and even Murakami.
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Newyork
Loving America Means Expecting More From It
Patriotism did not bring my grandfather to the Army recruiter’s office in 1956. Poverty did. A youth spent picking cotton and working odd jobs to help feed his family meant that he was a good way from graduating from high school as his 18th birthday ...
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World
Hurricane Beryl Batters Jamaica as 2 Other Islands Lie in Ruin
The island confirmed its first death as a surge of water, damaging winds and flooding pummeled the southern coast on Wednesday. The Cayman Islands are bracing to be next.