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April 17, 2020 at 4:17 pm

In Denmark, a rare sight in the coronavirus era: Classrooms full of students VIEW

LOGUMKLOSTER, Denmark — The cluster of red brick buildings in a remote part of southern Denmark looks unremarkable from the outside, but this week, its...

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April 14, 2020 at 5:19 pm

Some European nations ease coronavirus rules, but move warily

BERLIN — Slowly, tentatively, a handful of European countries began lifting constraints on daily life this week for the first time since the start of...

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March 2, 2020 at 4:43 pm

Israeli election gives edge to Netanyahu, exit polls show

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held a significant lead in his third electoral showdown with former army chief Benny Gantz, and was close to...

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March 2, 2020 at 12:44 pm

Israeli Election Gives Edge to Netanyahu, Exit Polls Show

JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel held a significant lead in his third electoral showdown with former army chief Benny Gantz, and was...

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February 28, 2020 at 8:04 pm

Turkey, Pressing EU for Help in Syria, Threatens to Open Borders to Refugees

ATHENS, Greece — Time and again, when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey wants something from the Europeans, he has reminded them that he is...

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October 17, 2019 at 4:48 pm

Turkey Agrees to Pause Fighting, but Not to Withdraw Forces From Northern Syria

ANKARA, Turkey — Vice President Mike Pence agreed Thursday to a deal with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that accepted a Turkish military presence in a...

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October 14, 2019 at 5:11 pm

Why Turkey invaded Kurds in Syria

The Turkish invasion of Kurdish-held territory in northern Syria has complicated an already chaotic war. What began eight years ago as a series of nonviolent...

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October 13, 2019 at 2:53 pm

U.S. forces leave ‘high-value’ ISIS detainees behind in retreat from Syria

The U.S. military was unable to carry out a plan to transfer about five dozen “high value” Islamic State detainees out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons...

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FILE — Members of the alt-right lead a torch march in Charlottesville, Va., Aug. 11, 2017. Anti-Semitism is now being harnessed for political ends by ideologies that otherwise would have little overlap. That fusion is new, and dangerous, experts say. (Edu Bayer/The New York Times) XNYT61 XNYT61

April 4, 2019 at 2:16 pm

Anti-Semitism is back, on the left, right and Islamist extremes in U.S. and Europe. Why?

The accumulated incidents in Europe and the United States have highlighted how an ancient prejudice is surging in the 21st century in both familiar and...

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A Union flag flies at half mast in Westminster in London, Friday, March 15, 2019. Multiple people were killed in mass shootings at two mosques full of worshippers attending Friday prayers on what the prime minister called “one of New Zealand’s darkest days,” as authorities detained four people and defused explosive devices in what appeared to be a carefully planned attack. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) LKW114 LKW114

March 15, 2019 at 1:53 pm

New Zealand massacre highlights global reach of white extremism

Videos of the mosque attacker in New Zealand show he was deeply entrenched in the global far right, a man familiar with the iconography and...

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