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Empty Roads and Spewing Lava: 4 Months Into Iceland’s Eruptions

The scene is as spectacular as it is dangerous: flowing rivers of shimmering lava and a dramatic plume of toxic gas.That image has...

Middle East Crisis: Top U.N. Court Orders Israel to Allow ‘Unhindered’ Aid Into Gaza

Although the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution on Monday that demands an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, it remains to...

Days After U.N. Cease-Fire Resolution, Has Anything Changed in Gaza?

If Israel doesn’t heed the resolution, what can the U.N. do?The Security Council has few means to enforce its resolutions. The Council can...

Wanted in South Korea: Imperialism-Free Cherry Blossoms

Shin Joon Hwan, an ecologist, walked along a road lined with cherry trees on the verge of blooming last week, examining the fine...

A Harsh Mongolian Winter Leaves Millions of Livestock Dead

An unusually brutal winter in Mongolia has left much of the country’s grazing land frozen and snow-covered, starving or freezing millions of animals...

TV’s Saviors Are Here, and They’re Wearing Spandex

First it was the streamers: the seismic arrival of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and the rest, offering television’s previously captive viewers...

From New England to Notre-Dame, a U.S. Carpenter Tends to a French Icon

Notre-Dame Cathedral sat in the pre-dawn chill like a spaceship docked in the heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by bright...

Book binding made from human skin removed from Harvard library

The macabre binding of a 19th-century book will be removed from one of Harvard University's libraries. Source link

A Very Royal Scavenger Hunt

Some members of the royal family, particularly the princes and princesses of its younger generation, are easy to slot into that victim role....

Friday Briefing

A year in a Russian prison for a U.S. reporterOne year ago today, the Russian authorities detained Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The...

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