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August 30, 2021 at 8:48 am

At Kabul Airport, a Sense of Calm and Resignation as Deadline Approaches VIEW

In the final hours Monday of the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, hope dwindled among the Afghans seeking to escape the country via the international...

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July 22, 2021 at 10:24 am

Teen wins libel case against Tommy Robinson, British far-right activist

LONDON — Tommy Robinson, a British far-right activist, lost a libel case Thursday filed by a teenage refugee from Syria who had been filmed being...

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July 21, 2021 at 9:13 am

Britain to pay France 54 million pounds to help block migrant arrivals

LONDON — Britain has agreed to pay France 54 million pounds, about $73 million, to help clamp down on migrants crossing the English Channel by...

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July 20, 2021 at 10:32 am

On England’s canals, boaters embrace the peace and pace of a floating life

LITTLE BOURTON, England — On a damp June afternoon, a floating home bobbed gently on the Oxford Canal, where it was moored just outside the...

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July 15, 2021 at 6:16 pm

Haiti police hold president’s palace security chief

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The head of palace security for President Jovenel Moïse, who was assassinated last week at his home, was taken into police custody...

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July 6, 2021 at 3:54 pm

U.K. Proposes Moving Asylum-Seekers Abroad While Their Cases Are Decided

LONDON — The British government proposed on Tuesday a plan to make it possible to transfer asylum-seekers out of the country while their applications are...

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One of Nick Dymond’s photographs depicting daily life in the Shetland Islands in the 1960’s and ’70s shows Lollie Brown, a onetime neighbor, with a lamb on Fetlar, an island in the Shetlands. Hundreds of Dymond’s pictured were saved from being thrown away; now, they are finding new life online. (Nick Dymond via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY SLUGGED SHETLAND ISLANDS IMAGES BY MEGAN SPECIA FOR FEB. 9, 2021. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. —

February 9, 2021 at 9:00 pm

A glimpse of a bygone life on Scottish Islands, plucked from the trash

A rare find opens a window into the life in Shetland Islands in the 1960s and '70s and reunites a community remembering life at a...

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FILE — Catherine Corless, a local historian, at her home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland, on Aug. 22, 2017. Corless worked to document the deaths of children and infants at the mother and baby home in Tuam. (Paulo Nunes dos Santos/The New York Times)

January 12, 2021 at 8:30 pm

Report gives glimpse into horrors of Ireland’s mother and baby homes

A government-commissioned report released Tuesday found a shocking number of deaths and widespread abuses at religious institutions in Ireland for unwed mothers and their children.

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November 24, 2020 at 12:49 pm

Scotland Passes Bill to End ‘Period Poverty’ With Free Sanitary Products

The Scottish Parliament voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a measure that makes free menstrual period products available to anyone who needs them. Scotland is the...

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November 24, 2020 at 12:47 pm

Scotland Passes Bill to End ‘Period Poverty’ With Free Sanitary Products

LONDON — Scotland has become the first country in the world to make period products freely available to all who need them, after final approval...

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