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Keeping Wide Net, Obama Sets Limits on Phone Spying

In a speech that seemed more calculated to reassure audiences at home and abroad than to force radical change, President Obama announced significant changes Friday to the way the government collects and uses telephone records.

Iran Deal Sets Off Feelers From Old Trading Partners

Excitement over the interim agreement, which will ease some provisions of the American-led sanctions on Iran but essentially leave all of them in place, has not extended to American companies.

In Afghan Attack, Death Toll Hits 21, Mostly Foreigners

United Nations workers and an International Monetary Fund representative were among those killed in the Taliban’s attack on a Kabul restaurant popular with Westerners.

People fled the violence in the Central African Republic this week on a truck headed to Chad. Nearly a million people have left their homes in the republic.
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Effort to Restore Order in Central Africa

An experiment is underway in the Central African Republic as a council of 135 rebels, rivals, politicians and others is trying to choose an interim president.

On Tennis
At the Open, It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Stupidity

There is a widening gulf between the way officials have portrayed the impact of the heat wave and what has happened.

For ‘Lucky Losers,’ a Chance to Be Contenders

For players like Martin Klizan, who lose early in the Open, a withdrawal can be a ticket into the main draw.

The Saturday Profile
From Hunger to Fame, With a Shoestring Menu

Jack Monroe, a 25-year-old single mother, has become an ambassador for the growing ranks of Britain’s poor, thanks to her blog posts chronicling life on the bread line.

Britain Scrambles to Fill Manufacturing Skills Gap

Faced with a shortage of skilled workers, the government is pushing to get teenagers into apprenticeships.

A Deepening Drought, and Dread, in California

The problem is visible from the Sierra Nevada to the farmlands in the southern part of the state, and it threatens to cause major hardship.

Resisting Mobile Hurts Nintendo’s Bottom Line

The game maker admitted that it stumbled and said that it would report a net loss of $240 million.

Dining & Wine »

Wines of The Times
The Enemy Is Not Pinot Grigio

Is it so hard to make good pinot grigio? Are producers simply taking the easy way out to make vast quantities of a wine they know will sell?

Pairings
A Humble Meal to Pair With Pinot Grigios

A tin of anchovies, some fennel and bread crumbs are all it takes to ramp up cacio e pepe for bucatini.

Op-Ed Contributor
The Whistle-Blower Who Freed Dreyfus

How the army officer who risked everything to expose France’s travesty of justice was reviled, jailed and ultimately vindicated.

Op-Ed Contributors
Why the Thai Protest Is Losing Steam

The wariness of the middle class may offer a chance to get beyond the impasse.

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