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A Statue Draped With Snakes? In Italy, It Happens Every Year.
It was the morning of May 1, and the Italian village of Cocullo was almost unrecognizable. The typical placidity of its quiet alleys and muted central square had given way to several…
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A Secretive U.S. Tech Firm Pushes Toward the Heart of U.K. Health Care
It began with a £1 contract.In the hours after a pandemic was declared in March 2020, Palantir, the secretive American data analytics company, was invited to 10 Downing Street along…
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Why Doesn’t Australia Have Better Trains?
The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter in Melbourne.Last year, more…
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Forum in Kyiv Aims to Increase Weapons Production in Ukraine
Russian conscript soldiers at the Alabino training site outside Moscow in August.Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York TimesSenior Russian officials said Thursday that an anticipated…
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Talking Peace in Sudan, the U.A.E. Secretly Fuels the Fight
Under the guise of saving refugees, the United Arab Emirates is running an elaborate covert operation to back one side in Sudan’s spiraling war — supplying powerful weapons and drones,…
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Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers are waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health…
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An Invasive Mosquito Threatens Catastrophe in Africa
The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students slumped against…
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One Village, Two Houses — and a New Tactic to Win the War on Mosquitoes
The world spends at least $22 billion every year to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, dengue and other devastating diseases.That money buys billions of liters of insecticides,…
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Museum Worker Sold Paintings and Put Forgeries in Their Place
A worker at the Deutsches Museum in Munich stole paintings from the collection, replaced them with rough forgeries, then sold the originals at auction, according to the judgment of a…
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