When Covid-19 Hit, Many Elderly Were Left to Die
Warnings had piled up for years that nursing homes were vulnerable. The pandemic sent them to the back of the line for equipment and care....
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Lebanon Faces Looming Humanitarian Catastrophe, U.N. Says
Lebanon is facing a looming humanitarian catastrophe, with dire shortages of food and medicine threatening to add to the suffering of a nation now reeling...
Arda Turan Joins Galatasaray and Emerges From Exile
ISTANBUL — In the end, the question feels inappropriate. A little ridiculous, even. Arda Turan is sitting on the terrace of an impossibly lavish hotel,...
Welcome Back to Germany. Now Take Your Free Coronavirus Test.
BERLIN — When she returned to Germany last week from a vacation in Serbia, one of the first things Snjezana Kirstein did was to stop...
TikTok, Spain’s Monarchy, Turkey: Your Tuesday Briefing
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering Microsoft’s potential purchase of part of TikTok, worries in NATO over...
Poland’s Supreme Court Declares Presidential Election Valid
Poland’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the results of President Andrzej Duda’s narrow victory in presidential elections last month, the country’s closest contest since the...
Conservative U.K. Lawmaker Is Arrested Over Rape Accusations
A Conservative lawmaker in Britain was arrested this weekend after a former parliamentary employee accused him of raping her, according to British news reports. The...
Italy Draws a Line Under Genoa Tragedy, Shunting Aside the Benettons
ROME — Less than two years after the collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Genoa killed 43 people, Italy will draw a line under the...
Embracing the Value in Scarcity
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FIFA President Gianni Infantino Under Criminal Investigation
A federal prosecutor in Switzerland said on Thursday that he had opened a criminal investigation into Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, after concluding that...