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• Egypt Denied an Oxygen Failure Killed Covid Patients. We Found That It Did.
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:29:33 +0000-Mona El-Naggar and Yousur Al-Hlou
  For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus’s real toll at the peak of Egypt’s second wave of the pandemic.
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• Brazil Starts Vaccinations Amid Rise in Covid Cases and New Variants
  Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:02:17 +0000-Ernesto Londoño, Manuela Andreoni and Letícia Casado
  The country has relatively few doses and is paying a price for its leader’s slow pursuit of vaccines early on. That lapse may hinder Brazil’s ability to fight worrisome variants.
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• Mexico's López Obrador, Fond of Trump, Eyes Biden Administration Warily
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:42:04 +0000-Natalie Kitroeff
  President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to appreciate Mr. Trump’s hands-off style, and is already making waves with an incoming administration he expects to be more meddlesome.
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• Europe Welcomes Biden, but Won’t Wait for Him
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:25:05 +0000-Steven Erlanger
  The European Union is eager for “a political climate change” and cooperation, but if the new president is consumed with domestic problems, it won’t put its own agenda on hold.
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• Russian Court Orders Aleksei Navalny Held for 30 Days
  Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:09:14 +0000-Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko
  Mr. Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was arrested at a Moscow airport after five months in Germany, recovering from a near-fatal poisoning.
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• Covid Response Was a Global Series of Failures, W.H.O.-Established Panel Says
  Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:15:26 +0000-Selam Gebrekidan and Matt Apuzzo
  An interim report is both a bleak recounting of deadly missteps and an early blueprint for repairs: “We have failed in our collective capacity.”
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• Incest Scandal Sets Off a New #MeToo Movement in France
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 20:01:54 +0000-Constant Méheut
  A wave of testimonies from people who say they were victims of incest has surfaced on Twitter after a scandal in which a prominent French intellectual was accused of abusing his teenage stepson.
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• China Expands Grad Schools as the Young Seek Jobs
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:00:08 +0000-Vivian Wang
  The government is expanding university capacity, but some young people worry that the option will only postpone a crisis stemming from a shortage of well-paying work.
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• Effort to Climb Skyscraper in Wheelchair Captivates Hong Kong
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:40:45 +0000-Tiffany May
  Lai Chi-wai didn’t reach his goal of ascending a skyscraper by rope. It hardly made his feat any less impressive.
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• U.S. to Impose Sanctions on Ship Involved in Russian Gas Pipeline
  Tue, 19 Jan 2021 01:10:24 +0000-Melissa Eddy
  The sanctions are the first targeting the Nord Stream 2 undersea pipeline, which is to carry natural gas directly from Russia to Germany, whose government backs the project.
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• Jay Y. Lee, Chief of South Korea's Samsung Empire, Is Sent to Prison
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:08:09 +0000-Choe Sang-Hun
  South Korea’s family-run conglomerates helped rebuild the country after the Korean War, but they are now seen by many as corrupting influences on the political system.
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• Amazon's 'Tandav' Show Angers India's Hindu Nationalists
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:23:43 +0000-Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj
  Artists say officials tied to the country’s ruling party use pressure to stem criticism. Streaming services hoping to tap the Indian market’s potential have been caught in the middle.
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• Mike Pompeo Leaves State Department With a Dubious Legacy
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:50:07 +0000-Lara Jakes
  As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks to his political future, his turbulent tenure is characterized by investigations into his leadership and ethics.
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• Anti-Vaccine Groups Get Covid P.P.P. Loans
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 22:38:04 +0000-Stacy Cowley
  Six organizations that have challenged the safety of vaccines and made claims that scientists have called false received loans.
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• Your Tuesday Briefing
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:27:46 +0000-Melina Delkic
  Some problems in India’s vaccine rollout.
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• A Theater Serves as a Courthouse, Provoking Drama Offstage
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:49:42 +0000-Alex Marshall
  Black artists and activists in Birmingham, England, say the city’s largest playhouse has sold out by leasing its auditoriums to the criminal justice system.
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• Underselling the Vaccine
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 16:42:46 +0000-David Leonhardt
  And what else you need to know today.
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• Twins with Covid-19 help scientists untangle the disease’s genetic roots.
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 10:12:33 +0000-Katherine J. Wu
• In Minnesota, a G.O.P. lawmaker’s death brings home the reality of the pandemic.
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:42:19 +0000-Trip Gabriel
• Two Additional Virus Variants Could Drive California's Caseload Even Higher
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 23:59:04 +0000-Lucy Tompkins and Carl Zimmer
  At least two new variants of the virus — one discovered in Britain and another first detected in Denmark — are now showing up in California.
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• Your Monday Briefing
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:51:49 +0000-Natasha Frost
  Biden’s 10-day blitz of executive orders.
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• Phil Spector Spent Last Days Suffering With Covid-19
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:29:48 +0000-Matt Richtel
• Your Monday Briefing
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 21:22:07 +0000-Carole Landry
  Biden prepares to reverse Trump’s policies.
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• Dutch Police Clash With Protesters Denouncing Lockdown Measures
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:46:15 +0000-Thomas Erdbrink
  Police officers in riot gear used water cannons to disperse demonstrators in the center of Amsterdam opposed to government measures to contain the coronavirus.
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• True-Crime Podcast Puts Spotlight on Irish Coach Accused of Abuse
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:17:37 +0000-Ed O’Loughlin
  The Irish police are investigating accusations that George Gibney, a former swim coach for Ireland now living in the United States, sexually abused two swimmers who came forward after hearing the podcast about him.
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• Nikolai Antoshkin, Who Helped Halt Chernobyl Disaster, Dies at 78
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:01:45 +0000-Andrew E. Kramer
  He survived radiation as commander of the operation that extinguished the Chernobyl nuclear plant fire. He died of the coronavirus.
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• Top Biden Official Warns US Covid Deaths Will Pass 500,000 in Weeks
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 05:08:49 +0000-Chris Cameron
  Ron Klain, who coordinated the Obama administration’s Ebola response, warns, “The virus is going to get worse before it gets better.”
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• Cargo Ship Sinks Near Turkey, Leaving at Least 3 Dead, Officials Say
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:41:15 +0000-Isabella Kwai
  Emergency workers saved half the 12-member crew after the vessel sank off the Black Sea coast, state media said, but bad weather hindered further rescue efforts.
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• ‘There Is No Safe Area’: In Kabul, Fear Has Taken Over
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:56:10 +0000-Adam Nossiter
  A new wave of violence and a growing uncertainty about the country’s future have left Afghans in the capital with a constant sense of fear.
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• States Scramble After Trump Administration Vaccine Doses Promises Falls Short
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 16:24:58 +0000-Bryan Pietsch
  The stockpile of doses was nearly empty.
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• Navalny Arrested on Return to Moscow in Battle of Wills With Putin
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 01:25:49 +0000-Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko
  Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, landed in Russia Sunday night five months after he was poisoned with a nerve agent.
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• How a Historian Got Close, Maybe Too Close, to a Nazi Thief
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:00:15 +0000-Nina Siegal
  Over nearly a decade, Jonathan Petropoulos met dozens of times with a man who helped the Nazis loot Jewish art collections, a complicated relationship he explores in “Göring’s Man in Paris.”
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• Thai Caves Attract Millions of Bats — and Now Scientists Too
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 08:00:16 +0000-Hannah Beech and Adam Dean
  A cave complex at a temple in Thailand has long drawn tourists, pilgrims and guano collectors. Now, scientists have arrived, looking for any potential links to the coronavirus.
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• Migrant Caravan, Now in Guatemala, Tests Regional Resolve to Control Migration
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:57:21 +0000-Kirk Semple and Nic Wirtz
  As many as 7,000 migrants from Central America are hoping to reach the United States to escape poverty intensified by hurricanes and the pandemic. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. has pledged to ease asylum rules.
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• Philippines Helicopter Crash Leaves 7 Soldiers Dead
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 04:56:53 +0000-Jason Gutierrez
  The helicopter had been on a supply run to troops in a remote, mountainous region where a hunt for communist rebels was taking place, the military said.
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• Countries Brace for Impact of More Coronavirus Variants
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 03:10:38 +0000-Elian Peltier and Andrea Kannapell
  Alongside the variant discovered in Britain, at least three other troubling variants are spreading less widely: one identified in South Africa and two in Brazil.
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• Germany’s Buchenwald Memorial Urges Visitors to Respect Graves
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:15:58 +0000-Elian Peltier
  After some visitors went sledding on graves at the former Nazi concentration camp, the foundation running the memorial stepped up security this week.
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• Nepali Team Says It Has Reached K2 Summit in a Wintertime First
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 12:51:52 +0000-Bhadra Sharma
  The team endured temperatures dropping to 58 degrees below zero during its milestone ascent. “The impossible is made possible!” the leader said.
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• Children’s Screen Time Has Soared in the Pandemic, Alarming Parents and Researchers
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 23:15:45 +0000-Matt Richtel
  “There will be a period of epic withdrawal,” warned one addiction specialist, once schools, activities and social life return to normal.
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• Uganda’s Leader of 35 Years Is Re-elected Amid Accusations of Vote-Rigging
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 19:11:31 +0000-Abdi Latif Dahir
  President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni faced his strongest challenge yet from Bobi Wine, a rapper-turned-lawmaker.
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• A Step Toward a Post-Merkel World: Her Party Picks a New Leader — Again
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 22:47:01 +0000-Katrin Bennhold
  Armin Laschet, a close ally of Germany’s chancellor, hopes to succeed her when she steps down after fall elections. But that is far from certain.
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• How UK Scientists Found the More Infectious Coronavirus Variant
  Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:57:23 +0000-Benjamin Mueller
  Back in March, researchers decided to routinely record the genetic sequences of the virus they found, giving them a powerful tool for tracking mutations.
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• How to (Literally) Drive the Coronavirus Away
  Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:35:30 +0000-Emily Anthes
  What’s the transmission risk inside a car? An airflow study offers some insight for passengers and drivers alike.
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• In Hong Kong, a New Party Calls for Stability (and Raises Suspicions)
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:00:11 +0000-Keith Bradsher and Vivian Wang
  Democracy advocates have called the Bauhinia Party a “Trojan horse” for the Chinese government. But Beijing’s local allies are wary of it, too.
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• Hong Kong Protesters to Seek Asylum in U.S.
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:24:26 +0000-Michael Forsythe
  The five men fled by boat to Taiwan in July, soon after China imposed Hong Kong’s harsh national security law. This week, they landed in New York.
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• India Covid Vaccine Campaign Begins
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:49:28 +0000-Emily Schmall and Karan Deep Singh
  The vaccine campaign is unfolding in a country with more than 150,000 coronavirus deaths, the world’s third-highest tally.
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• Abbas Announces Palestinian Elections After Years of Paralysis
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 01:18:55 +0000-Isabel Kershner and Adam Rasgon
  The decree by President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority was viewed by analysts as a bid to lift his standing with the Biden administration. Skeptics expressed doubt the vote would happen.
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• Mexico Frees a General, and Wounds Its Alliance With the U.S.
  Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:14:51 +0000-
  The Biden administration will need to rebuild drug-enforcement cooperation after Mexico exonerated Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, discounting U.S. evidence that he worked for a cartel.
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• Biden Plans Covid Vaccine Push
  Sat, 16 Jan 2021 10:30:28 +0000-Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Katie Thomas
  The president-elect’s vaccination push is colliding with the reality of limited supplies, a scarcity that has hurt hopes for a federal stockpile.
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• India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Drive Begins
  Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:47:41 +0000-Emily Schmall and Karan Deep Singh
  One of the world’s largest inoculation programs is set to begin on Saturday, but experts have questioned the data behind one of the country’s two vaccines — and patients don’t get to pick their shot.
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