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Why So Many People in France Are Protesting Over Pensions
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President Emmanuel Macron bypassed a vote in Parliament and pushed through his plan to raise the legal age of retirement to 64 from 62 despite waves of marches and strikes organized by labor unions nationwide. The upper house of Parliament approved the pension bill for a final time on Thursday.
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The Ukrainian military is firing thousands of artillery shells a day as it tries to hold the eastern city of Bakhmut, a pace that American and European officials say is unsustainable and could jeopardize a planned springtime campaign that they hope will prove decisive.
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The year is roughly 1650. A merchant ship — carrying goods, passengers and a highly expensive silk satin dress that will centuries later become a topic of fascination — sinks off the Dutch island of Texel.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — On an artificial island on the edge of the Persian Gulf, Dima Tutkov feels safe. There are none of the anti-Russian attitudes that he hears about in Europe. He has noticed no potholes or homelessness, unlike what he saw in Los Angeles.
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War in Ukraine Puts Centuries of Swiss Neutrality to the Test
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In Eastern Europe, Ukrainians are in the trenches. Farther west, European capitals are grappling with a new order in which war is no longer theoretical. Yet, tucked away in the heart of the continent, the Swiss are fretting over loftier ideals.
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Ukraine insisted on Saturday that its forces were fending off relentless Russian attacks in Bakhmut, even as Western analysts said that Moscow’s forces had captured most of the embattled city’s east and established a new front line cutting through its center.
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LONDON — The BBC scrambled to rearrange hours of programming in real time on Saturday after the suspension of the popular host of its cornerstone soccer program set off a revolt by on-air talent, forcing the broadcaster to curtail major portions of its weekend sports coverage and leaving it to fac
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — After years of open hostility and proxy conflicts across the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to re-establish diplomatic ties, they announced on Friday, in a significant pivot for the two regional rivals that was facilitated by China.
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Prince Edward Receives a New Title on His Birthday
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LONDON — King Charles III granted his youngest sibling, Prince Edward, the title of Duke of Edinburgh, Buckingham Palace said on Friday, Edward’s 59th birthday.
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Changing His Tune for Mother Russia
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MOSCOW — He cuts the figure of a typical leather-wearing pop star heartthrob. He has a fan base of young and middle-aged women who bring him flowers and stuffed animals when he performs. But Yaroslav Y.
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Ukraine Claims Bakhmut Battle Is Wagner’s ‘Last Stand’
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s Wagner mercenary group has been forced to use more of its professional recruits in Bakhmut to replace its depleted supply of enlisted prisoners, who are perishing by the thousands in the longest battle of the war, a Ukrainian official said on Tuesday.
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2 Americans Found Dead; 2 Found Alive in Mexico Kidnapping
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Two of the four Americans who were kidnapped last week in Mexico were found dead on Tuesday, while the other two were found alive, according to the governor of the border state of Tamaulipas, where the abduction occurred last week.
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Soon after he deployed to Ukraine last fall, Pvt. Ivan A. Ovlashenko filmed a short video of himself wearing camouflage fatigues and an olive green fleece hat, sitting in a woods flecked with yellowing leaves while fellow soldiers nearby readied an artillery round to fire toward the Ukrainian lines.
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Ukrainian Soldiers, Nearly Encircled, Push Russians Back
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CHASIV YAR, Ukraine — Lined up in the dark in civilian vehicles, lights dimmed, a company of soldiers waited silently at the side of a road. Farther behind, a second company was parked, an occasional light inside a car revealing the face of a soldier.
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This Is What Trench Warfare on the Front Line Is Like
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The Russian forces were so close that Boghdan, a Ukrainian soldier with the 79th Air Assault Brigade, could see them digging. Digging is what to do in this forlorn stretch of scorched earth in eastern Ukraine to avoid dying. Boghdan wants the Russians to die.
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Whirring Into Action in Ukraine’s Skies
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On a snowbound field, three Soviet-era helicopters were being readied for battle. Pilots and crew checked the flight plan for their next target, while technicians loaded slim gray rockets into launcher pods and stacked flares into racks behind the exhaust.
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They Sneaked Into a Derelict Arms Plant: Instagrammers or Spies?
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The three espionage suspects — two Russians and one Ukrainian — were hardly discreet. They arrived at the derelict Albanian weapons factory in a bright orange Chevrolet Camaro in broad daylight.
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Rare video of tigress and three cubs in Thailand
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Another camera trap recording shows a tigress that had dispersed from one population to another protected area.
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Harry and Meghan Told to Leave Their Royal Cottage in the U.K.
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, have been asked to move out of Frogmore Cottage, their five-bedroom Georgian house on the grounds of Windsor Castle, the couple’s press secretary said, in a further sign of the bitter rupture between them and the British royal family since they withdrew from roya
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Canadians Fume as Migrants Surge at Their Border
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Hélène Gravel’s house sits on Roxham Road near Canada’s most famous illegal border crossing, used by migrants leaving the United States to seek asylum up north.
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Train Crash in Greece Kills at Least 36
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Rescue workers in Greece frantically searched for survivors through flattened carriages and smoking wreckage on Wednesday after a head-on collision at high speed between a freight and passenger train killed at least 36 people, many of them young, and injured scores of others in what appeared to be t
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KURAKHOVE, Ukraine — Before driving into battle in their mud-spattered war machine, a T-64 tank, the three-man Ukrainian crew performs a ritual. The commander, Pvt. Dmytro Hrebenok, recites the Lord’s Prayer. Then, the men walk around the tank, patting its chunky green armor.
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Tea and a Photo-Op Put King Charles in Cross Hairs
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LONDON — King Charles III had nothing to do with the Northern Ireland trade agreement unveiled on Monday by Britain and the European Union. But one could be forgiven for thinking that he had put his royal imprimatur on the deal.
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Scrounging for Tanks for Ukraine, Europe’s Armies Come Up Short
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BERLIN — Nearly a month after Berlin gave European allies permission to send German-made tanks to Ukraine, the flow of tanks so many leaders vowed would follow seems more like a trickle. Some nations have discovered that the tanks in their armory don’t actually work or lack spare parts.
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LYMAN, Ukraine — Peering through an infrared scope, a Ukrainian soldier noticed some heads poking over a trench a few dozen yards away. There were not.
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