Italy Weighs Locking Down Much of the Country’s North
ROME — Italy’s government on Saturday took the extraordinary step of locking down much of the country’s north, restricting movement for about a quarter of...
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Eva Szekely Dies at 92; Survived Holocaust to Win Olympic Gold
Eva Szekely, an Olympic champion swimmer and an athletic hero in her native Hungary, narrowly escaped being murdered by fascists before she could achieve greatness....
‘It’s Going to End in Death’: Doctors Say U.K. Ill-prepared for Coronavirus
LONDON — Ventilators in short supply. Intensive care beds already overflowing. Some health workers buying their own face masks or hoods. And if cases of...
The Fashion World, Upended by Coronavirus
PARIS — Twice a year, the luxury fashion houses of the world present their ready-to-wear clothing for the coming season. This creates an international traveling...
Stanislaw Kania, 92, Polish Leader During Solidarity’s Rise, Dies
Stanislaw Kania, who as Poland’s Communist leader for 13 tumultuous months in the early 1980s steered a delicate course for his country, avoiding both open...
Lucy Prebble’s ‘A Very Expensive Poison’ Wins the Blackburn Prize
Lucy Prebble — the British playwright and writer for TV series including “Succession” — won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize on Monday for “A Very...
Fear of Coronavirus Leaves the Faithful Without Mass in Italy’s North
Get an informed guide to the global outbreak with our daily Coronavirus newsletter. MILAN — The camera focused on a woman reading a prayer for...
For Boris Johnson, Britain’s Baby Boom Starts at 10 Downing
LONDON — Of all the glad tidings that Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised would flow from Brexit, one of the most far-fetched was a baby...
Amid Protests, Roman Polanski Wins Best Director at France’s Oscars
LONDON — Roman Polanski, the film director who fled the United States in 1978 while awaiting sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old, was a...
Home 2, Visitor 1, Spectators 0
The stands didn’t fill and the crowd didn’t roar, but there was an important soccer match scheduled in Milan on Thursday, so Internazionale, the home...