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Coronavirus and sex: questions and answers
New York Times, Published on 31/03/2020
» These are not sexy times.
Peace talks feature symbolism, scepticism
News, New York Times, Published on 02/09/2016
» In the grandest gesture yet of her young administration, Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, opened a peace conference on Wednesday to bring together hundreds of the country's ethnic armed groups in hopes of ending decades of conflict.
Echoing a film's murderous blueprint
News, New York Times, Published on 12/08/2016
» The three miners befriended a lonely, luckless man and offered him work down an iron mine in eastern China.
China's cheating husbands and 'mistress dispellers'
News, New York Times, Published on 09/08/2016
» When Wang, a 39-year-old woman from Shanghai, discovered texts on her husband's phone that suggested he was having an affair with one of his employees, she was distraught. "I couldn't sleep at night and couldn't stop crying," she said. "I was very hurt."
What's the price to keep the country safe after terror attacks?
News, New York Times, Published on 08/08/2016
» Soldiers are patrolling French beaches through the holiday this month. There has been talk of Guantanamo-style holding pens for thousands of terrorism suspects. The prime minister has suggested ending foreign funding for mosques.
PM Najib, dogged by a billion-dollar scandal, proves untouchable
News, New York Times, Published on 01/08/2016
» The conspirators were confident. They planned to confront Malaysia's Prime Minister, Najib Razak, at a cabinet meeting and demand his resignation. Prosecutors had collected evidence that Mr Najib had deposited millions of dollars of public money into his personal bank account. Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail was ready to file criminal charges, according to Mr Najib's advisers, and opposition leaders.
Nice attacker 'wasn't living in real world'
News, New York Times, Published on 26/07/2016
» His own parents were so frightened by his violence that they kicked him out when he was 16. Desperate, by the time he was 19, they dragged him to a psychiatrist, who prescribed an anti-psychotic drug, a tranquilliser and an antidepressant.
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.
Rising sea shocks Pacific's Kiribati
News, New York Times, Published on 04/07/2016
» One clear bright day last winter, a tidal surge swept over an ocean embankment here in the remote, low-lying island country of Kiribati, smashing through the doors and windows of Betio Hospital and spewing sand and debris across its maternity ward.