How Cardinal Pell Rose to Power, Trailed by a Cloud of Scandal
The charges against him followed years of criticism that he had overlooked — or covered up — the widespread abuse of children by clergymen in Australia.
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CreditCarl Court/Getty Images 3 Officials Resign Amid Outcry Over Grenfell Tower Fire
The leader and deputy leader of the London borough of Kensington and Chelsea stepped down, as did the head of the building’s management company.
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CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times After Killing Currency, Modi Takes a Leap With India’s Biggest-Ever Tax Overhaul
The new system will replace a welter of taxes from around the country that were seen as a major impediment to growth. But will it be any simpler?
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CreditFabrizio Bensch/Reuters German Parliament Approves Same-Sex Marriage
Lawmakers supported the bill after Chancellor Angela Merkel softened her resistance to the issue a few days ago.
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Changing Climate, Changing Cities
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Credit The Dutch Have Solutions to Rising Seas. The World Is Watching.
In the waterlogged Netherlands, climate change is considered neither a hypothetical nor a drag on the economy. Instead, it’s an opportunity.
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CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times Rising Waters Threaten China’s Rising Cities
In the Pearl River Delta, breakneck development is colliding with the effects of climate change.
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CreditJosh Haner/The New York Times Mexico City, Parched and Sinking, Faces a Water Crisis
Climate change is threatening to push a crowded capital toward a breaking point.
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Credit Marine Le Pen Is Charged in Inquiry Into Misuse of E.U. Funds
The French far-right leader’s National Front party is accused of wrongly putting staff members on the European Parliament payroll.
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Credit French Puzzle Over Macron as Their New President Gathers Up Power
Some critics accuse Mr. Macron of “authoritarian” tendencies, but few doubt that he has assumed the role of master string-puller.
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Wall Street Journal Said to Reduce Print Operations Outside U.S.
The Journal will greatly curtail publication of its print newspaper in Europe and scale back its operation in Asia, according to two people familiar with its plans.
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On the Runway
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Credit Emmanuel Macron Raises the Presidential Portrait Stakes
Never, it seems, has a politician been so transparent about the calculation behind an image
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The Saturday Profile
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Credit From N.B.A. Bench Player to Cult Hero in Turkey
Ekpe Udoh led his team to this year’s Euroleague title, but he is revered primarily for what he does off the court: embrace Turkish culture.
Asia
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Credit Carrie Lam Is Sworn In as Hong Kong’s First Female Leader
Ms. Lam, the fourth chief executive since the territory was returned to Chinese control, promised to renew trust in government in her inauguration speech.
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Credit In Hong Kong, a 20-Year-Old Activist Demands Democracy
Joshua Wong, the teenage face of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong three years ago, is leading a group of young protesters calling for democracy during the visit of President Xi Jinping.
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Credit Trump Takes More Aggressive Stance With U.S. Friends and Foes in Asia
The president pressed South Korea on trade and made moves that angered China, posing a test of whether he can keep campaign promises while also cooperating on security.
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Credit Myanmar Vows to Block U.N. Investigators From Entering
The government said it would refuse to grant visas to three experts tasked with looking into violence against Muslims in the country.
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Credit ‘Climate of Fear’ Grips Journalists in Myanmar After Arrests
Three reporters were detained after visiting territory controlled by an armed ethnic group, fanning concern about a crackdown on free speech in the country.
Middle East
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Suicide Bombers Attack Lebanese Soldiers Near Syria Border
The assaults shook the makeshift camps that have grown near the Lebanese border town of Arsal as refugees have poured in to escape the war in neighboring Syria.
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Credit Report Confirms That Chemical Arms Were Used on Syrian Villagers
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons concluded that the nerve agent sarin or a similar poison had been used in the April 4 attack.
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Credit Iraq Recaptures Al Nuri Mosque in Mosul, but Only Rubble Remains
The Iraqi prime minister claimed it was a sign of the end of the Islamic State’s grip on the region and vowed to chase it out of the country.
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Credit Ehud Olmert, Israeli Ex-Prime Minister, Granted Early Release from Prison
He is expected to be freed on Sunday, after a parole board cut short his sentence for bribery, obstruction of justice, fraud and breach of trust.
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Credit ISIS Reverts to Insurgent Roots to Pose Long-Term Threat, Study Says
Islamic State militants have carried out nearly 1,500 attacks in cities in Iraq and Syria that were liberated from its control, according to a new study.
Canada
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Credit Canada Letter: It’s July 1. Let’s Party. Wait, Why Today?
It’s Canada Day, and for most Canadians that means wearing red T-shirts and painting maple leaves on their faces. Beyond that, many details are murky.
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The Interpreter
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Credit Canada’s Comedy, the Voice of a Polite Nation, Rises in the Trump Era
Political humor, “one of our national pastimes,” is a way of pushing back against America’s dominance. Its changes offer a lens into how Canada is changing, too.
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Credit A New York Times Company Town Deep in the Ontario Wilderness
In the 1920s, The Times and Kimberly-Clark built an enormous paper mill in Kapuskasing, along with the town to serve it. The mill and town survive.
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Dispatch From Montreal
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Credit Canada Is Turning 150. Oh, to Be 100 Again.
With a national birthday coming on Saturday, a reporter looks back at a celebration that reflected an era of reinvention.
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First Person
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Credit The Clarion Call of Being Canadian
When you have three passports, what country do you choose?
Americas
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Credit After Helicopter Attack, Venezuelans Ask, What Was That About?
If the assault on government buildings was meant as a call to arms, it instead bewildered Venezuelans who have been protesting the government for months.
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Credit Rogue Police Copter Attacks Venezuela’s Supreme Court
A rogue police force attacked Venezuela's Supreme Court in Caracas by helicopter on Tuesday, amid antigovernment protests.
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Credit Torture Victim Seeking Asylum in U.S. Will Not Be Deported
A Venezuelan man who fled to Miami after being beaten by security forces back home is no longer in danger of being sent back, an immigration judge ruled.
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Credit Police Officers in Helicopter Attack Venezuela’s Supreme Court
The attack, with grenades, was a rare act of disloyalty against a government under pressure from protests and an economic collapse.
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Colombian Anticorruption Official Is Arrested in U.S. Bribery Case
The director of Colombia’s anticorruption unit was arrested in his country’s capital after D.E.A. agents in Miami recorded him at meetings where bribes were discussed.
Africa
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U.N. to Reduce Peacekeepers in Darfur Region of Sudan
The Security Council voted to withdraw more than a third of the nearly 19,000 peacekeepers in the volatile region.
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Credit Ketumile Masire, Who Shaped and Led a Vibrant Botswana, Dies at 91
President Masire was instrumental in transforming his arid, destitute country into the envy of other African nations.
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Global Health
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Credit U.S. Malaria Donations Saved Almost 2 Million African Children
The President’s Malaria Initiative, started in 2005, has saved 1.7 million children in Africa for only $500 million a year, a new study finds.
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Credit Corruption Crackdown Intensifies in Tunisia, and the People Cheer
A drive to root out corruption has been surprising for its vigor, but is not without risks. Analysts say mafia bosses are as powerful as terrorists.
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Credit White House Pushes Military Might Over Humanitarian Aid in Africa
African and American military leaders are uneasy that shifting to a military-heavy presence on the continent could hurt America’s long-term interests.
Australia
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Credit Postcard From Australia: Where Some See Souvenirs and Slang, a Race-in-America Reporter Sees Stereotypes
On location with John Eligon for the filming of an eye-opening documentary. Plus an exclusive video exchange with Aboriginal journalist Stan Grant.
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The Breakdown
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Credit A Meeting of Military Might in the Pacific. Also: Tony Abbott Defends Cardinal Pell (Again).
Conversation starters and context, drawn from the day’s news in Australia.
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Wine School
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Credit Your Next Lesson: New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc
This wine has been a popular and influential style, but how has it fared as it’s gained a worldwide following?
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Credit ‘It’s That Low Hum of Racism’
The New York Times reporter John Eligon trades stories of everyday racism with the Australian broadcaster Stan Grant.
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Credit Vatican Sex Abuse Scandal Reveals Blind Spot for Francis
The pope spoke of committees to safeguard children, tribunals to try bishops and a “zero tolerance” policy for offending priests. It hasn’t quite worked out that way.
Editorials and Op-Eds
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Credit No Country for Bangladesh’s Gay Men
Justice is becoming increasingly rare for the families and friends of L.G.B.T. activists murdered in Bangladesh.
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Credit Canada’s Hidden History, My Mother and Me
Seven generations of my First Nations family were sent to residential schools, separated from their parents and stranded from their own culture.
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Credit Israeli Leaders Bend to Religious Conservatives at Their Peril
The ultra-Orthodox genuinely believe that their conduct is what guarantees the security of the Jewish people.
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Credit Happy Birthday, America. One Small Suggestion ...
Let us embark together on an Independence Day thought experiment.
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Credit Chinese Ways of Empire, Then and Now
Hong Kong, beware: Ancient history provides ominous examples of China subjugating rebellious peoples on its periphery.
