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After the Germany axe attack
News, New York Times, Published on 22/07/2016
» Residents of Weimar flocked to the German city's central park to escape unusually scorching heat this week, setting up picnics and watching bees skitter across the wildflowers near a placid reflecting pool.
Turkey unlikely victim of unlikely coup
News, New York Times, Published on 18/07/2016
» If the attempted coup in Turkey came as a surprise, there was good reason: The event went against decades of research on how, when and why coups happen.
Unauthorised immigrants cautious after Supreme Court ruling
News, New York Times, Published on 28/06/2016
» Karina Ruiz and other protesters blocked a busy road in Phoenix, Arizona, last week hours after the Supreme Court denied relief from deportation for millions of unauthorised parents, including her father.
Cameron's reckless bluff put himself into political hot water
News, New York Times, Published on 23/06/2016
» David Cameron, the British prime minister, has no one to blame but himself.
Playing dead, to live
News, New York Times, Published on 15/06/2016
» As the sound of gunfire in the nightclub grew louder, a patron named Orlando and a female friend took cover in a cramped bathroom stall, contorting their bodies on top of the toilet so their feet could not be seen. The gunman burst into the bathroom, went straight to the stall next to them and shot the people inside.
Message to Islamabad
News, New York Times, Published on 25/05/2016
» Early on Saturday, a middle-aged Pashtun man used forged documents to cross from Iran into Pakistan. A few hours later, on a lonely stretch of highway, he was incinerated by a US drone.
Gawker editor jolts courtroom in Hulk Hogan privacy trial
News, New York Times, Published on 11/03/2016
» A palpable sense of shock rippled through a courtroom in St Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday morning when the former editor-in-chief of Gawker.com was shown in a videotaped deposition suggesting that almost anything goes when it comes to the newsworthiness of celebrities' sex videos.
EU ignores rights crackdown
News, New York Times, Published on 10/03/2016
» The contrast was jarring: Just days after the police broke into the offices of an opposition newspaper using tear gas and water cannon, Turkey's prime minister was greeted in Brussels with offers of billions in aid, visa-free travel for Turks in Europe and renewed prospects for joining the European Union.
Iowa caucuses begin the long, slow US election
News, New York Times, Published on 01/02/2016
» The presidential race hurtled over the weekend toward a watershed moment: voting that will start to reveal the true depth of Americans' desire to cast aside traditional politicians and Washington-style compromise and embrace disruptive outsiders appealing to their passions.