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Why Putin is learning to love rap
MOSCOW — When 25-year-old rapper Husky found out in late November that Russian officials had cancelled his gig in the southern town of Krasnodar,...
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Trump says climate change isnt real. He should come to Utqiagvik in Alaska
It felt like the top of the world in more ways than one. It was my last evening in Barrow, now Utqiagvik, Alaska, the...
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Riga to Russian speakers: Learn Latvian
RIGA — Last September, school children werent the only ones headed back to class in Latvia. The end of the summer vacation also saw...
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Chinas black box superiority
SHENZHEN, China — When I arrive at the 31-story Modern Industry Service Center in the Yantian district of Shenzhen, there is hardly a soul....
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Theresa May: What if she stays?
LONDON — Like many introverts, Theresa May is in love with the limelight.
The British prime minister is often accused of being a robot —...
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All roads lead to Moscow
MOSCOW — Since the conflict between Ukraine and Russia began over four years ago, the once-brotherly Slavic nations are almost completely cut off from...
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Ukraines hidden menace
KIEV — Five days after she fell into a coma, Oksana Nezhalskaya came to. Dazed, she felt her body throb with pain. The room...
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Can comedy heal the wounds of war?
For the better part of a decade, Christopher Croghan was at war.
He deployed to Iraq for the first time in 2007 at the height...
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How Silicon Valley became a den of spies
SAN FRANCISCO — In the fall of 1989, during the Cold Wars wan and washed-out final months, the Berlin Wall was crumbling — and...
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All wild on Ukraines eastern front
URZUF, Ukraine — The two-week-old calf was, in a way, another victim of the war.
A smallholder farmer named Galina Korovaytseva had left it tethered...