Hopes Fade for New Political Course in Algeria a Year After Popular Uprising
ALGIERS — In a Moorish-style palace on the Algerian capital’s airy heights, the nation’s president proclaimed a new day for his country, saying it was...
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Germany’s Far Right Reunified, Too, Making It Much Stronger
BERLIN — They called him the “Führer of Berlin.” Ingo Hasselbach had been a clandestine neo-Nazi in communist East Berlin, but the fall of the...
The World Shudders as President Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19
LONDON — President Trump’s disclosure that he had been infected by the coronavirus sent a shudder around the world on Friday, drawing sympathy from leaders...
Ski, Party, Seed a Pandemic: The Travel Rules That Let Covid-19 Take Flight
The World Health Organization said open borders would help fight disease. Experts, and a global treaty, emphatically agreed. But the scientific evidence was never behind...
As Cases Surge, Pandemic Restrictions Again Descend on Quebec
MONTREAL — There has been a veneer of normalcy in Montreal. Couples hunched over steak-frites and poutine at popular neighborhood bistros. Young people thronging comedy...
As Europe’s Coronavirus Cases Rise, So Do Voices Crying Hoax
LONDON — Alongside a strip of candy-colored houses on London’s Portobello Road, a freshly scrawled message blared out from the older graffiti on a garage...
As Covid-19 Closes Schools, the World’s Children Go to Work
TUMAKURU, India — Every morning in front of the Devaraj Urs public housing apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city of Tumakuru, a swarm...
Pandemic Will ‘Take Our Women 10 Years Back’ in the Workplace
As if working mothers did not have enough to worry about, experts are now sounding the alarm that progress toward gender equality may be the...
Her Study Center Was Bombed. She Still Topped Afghanistan’s National University Exam.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Shamsea Alizada’s story could so easily have ended when she was just 15. A coal miner’s daughter whose family had moved all...
As Coronavirus Cases Surge in Europe, Hospitalizations Lag
LONDON — In Munich, normally brimming with boisterous crowds for Oktoberfest this month, the authorities just banned gatherings of more than five people. In Marseille,...