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China’s Big Political Show Is Back to Normal. Sort of.

Finally, it appeared, things were back to normal.As nearly 3,000 delegates filed into Beijing’s Great Hall of the People on Tuesday for the...

Egyptians Are Buying and Selling Gold Just to Stay Afloat

Inside the wood-paneled shop in Cairo’s famed Khan el-Khalili market, the price of gold was slumping fast, and Rania Hussein was feeling the...

With a New Holocaust Museum, the Netherlands Faces Its Past

Three faces stare blankly from sepia-toned passport photos, haphazardly pasted onto a card to an unknown recipient. They are probably two parents and...

The Maldives Is a Tiny Paradise. Why Are China and India Fighting Over It?

Between a few flecks of coral in the Indian Ocean, a ribbon of highway more than a mile long swoops up from the...

From Taiwan to childbirth policies: China’s National People’s Congress kicks off

Key PointsChina's parliament, the National People's Congress, kicked off its annual session on Tuesday. Premier Li Qiang delivered his maiden work report, including...

Singapore Has Taylor Swift to Itself This Week, and the Neighbors Are Complaining

Taylor Swift has descended on Southeast Asia, or one small part of it at least: All of her six sold-out shows are in...

Powerful Psychedelic Gains Renewed Attention as a Treatment for Opioid Addiction

The drug company Atai Life Sciences is spending millions to research the compound, and congressional lawmakers from both parties have been pushing the...

‘Reasonable grounds’ to believe Hamas raped women during attack on Israel, UN says

Content warning: This article contains references to rape and sexual assault.There are "reasonable grounds to believe" rapes were committed during Hamas' 7 October...

Tuesday Briefing

The Supreme Court ruled that Trump can stay on ballotsThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that states cannot bar Donald Trump from running...

A Shift in Russian Tactics Intensifies Air War in Ukraine

The Ukraine war has been fought largely on the ground in the past two years, with troops often locked in back-and-forth battles with...

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