Spring Awakening
Mar 22, 2025
One afternoon last week, I convinced a friend to accompany me to a restaurant in Brooklyn to learn how to play Hong Kong-style mahjong. I’d always been intrigued by mahjong’s colorful bakelite tiles, ...
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Trump’s Attempts to Resolve Global Conflicts Quickly Face Diplomatic Reality
Mar 22, 2025
When it comes to confronting global conflicts, President Trump is a man in a hurry.Even before his inauguration, the president claimed credit for what he called an “EPIC cease-fire” in Gaza. He has ra...
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Canada’s Small Businesses Face a ‘Double Hit” in the Trade War With U.S.
Mar 22, 2025
After 142 years in the business of milling and packaging rice and rice flour, Dainty Foods was on a roll.A surge in demand for precooked and flavored rice made for microwaving had suddenly lifted the ...
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Private Island Comes on the Market in Italy
Mar 22, 2025
Private Mediterranean islands are rather rare, but Punta Pennata, a sliver of land in the Gulf of Naples with the crumbling walls of an old Roman villa tucked amid its overgrown flora, has been on the...
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Pakistan Is Trying to Integrate the ‘Most Dangerous Place’ on Earth. It’s Failing.
Mar 22, 2025
The rugged borderlands of northwestern Pakistan have long had a reputation for lawlessness and militancy, labeled by President Barack Obama as “the most dangerous place in the world.”The Pakistani gov...
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South Korea Protests Swell as Court Weighs President Yoon’s Fate
Mar 22, 2025
Every day, thousands of protesters gather near South Korea’s top court, which has fortified its walls with razor wire as its eight justices prepare a ruling that could shape the future of the country’...
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Travel Disruptions Linger as Flights Resume at London’s Heathrow
Mar 22, 2025
Heathrow Airport in London, one of the world’s busiest air hubs, was set to resume a full day of service on Saturday. But after a fire at an electrical substation halted operations for most of Friday,...
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The Sniper’s Nest
Mar 22, 2025
Four years ago, this was a prime riverside location in the capital of a nation that seemed to be inching toward democracy. Then came a military coup, and then almost two years of civil war, as the arm...
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In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan See Democracy Eroding After Istanbul Mayor’s Detention
Mar 22, 2025
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered this year facing a knot of political problems with little precedent in his two decades at the summit of power in Turkey.Voters were angry about persistently high...
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What Caused the Fire That Shut Down Heathrow Airport?
Mar 21, 2025
Investigators combed through the burned-out remains of a power substation near London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday, seeking the cause of a spectacular blaze that shuttered Europe’s busiest travel hub ...
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