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Biden Drops Out of Presidential Race and Endorses Harris

Published On: July 22, 2024 08:10 AM NPT By: The New York Times

WASHINGTON, July 22: After intense pressure from within his own party, President Biden said he was ending his campaign and backing Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place. Ms. Harris said she would seek the nomination, adding: “Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.”

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Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and Critic of Postwar Japan, Dies at 88

Published On: March 13, 2023 05:11 PM NPT By: The New York Times

March 13: Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3. He was 88.

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30 killed while fighting forest fire in China

Published On: April 1, 2019 06:12 PM NPT By: The New York Times

SICHUAN, April 1: Thirty people were killed while trying to stop a forest fire in southwestern China, officials said on Monday.

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Women are targets of online extremism

Published On: May 12, 2018 02:25 PM NPT By: The New York Times

The recent mass killing in Toronto by a man who once called for an “Incel Rebellion” has drawn attention to an online community of men who lament being “involuntarily celibate” and dream of a social order granting them access to the women of their choice.

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Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!

Published On: May 5, 2018 10:05 AM NPT By: The New York Times

SEOUL: On May 5, 1818, in the southern German town of Trier, in the picturesque wine-growing region of the Moselle Valley, Karl Marx was born. At the time Trier was one-tenth the size it is today, with a population of around 12,000. According to one of Marx’s recent biographers, Jürgen Neffe, Trier is one of those towns where “although everyone doesn’t know everyone, many know a lot about many.”

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Activists envision gay rights victory in India

Published On: November 27, 2017 10:43 AM NPT By: The New York Times

NEW DELHI, Nov 26: At a jammed intersection in New Delhi, a passing parade of people announced their mission with a single word in Hindi, dicing it into short, snappy syllables.

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In China, lonely guys are enrolling in Dating 101

Published On: November 25, 2017 09:57 AM NPT By: The New York Times

CHINA, Nov 25: Zhang Zhenxiao is 27 years old. He has never been in a relationship. He has never kissed a woman. Now, Zhang is ready for love — but like many men in China, he doesn’t know where to begin.

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They Stayed Put, but Their City Disappeared

Published On: November 23, 2017 10:12 AM NPT By: The New York Times

SYRIA, Nov 23: On a cool evening in early November, in a back room of the Damascus Opera House, a women’s choir was rehearsing an old favorite, a sunny ballad from a childhood cartoon. When they reached the chorus — “How sweet it is to live in one house, how sweet to live in one hometown” — one of the singers, Safana Baqleh, began to weep into her hands.

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Crimes of the Caliphate: Iraqi Shepherd Bears Witness to ISIS Massacre

Published On: November 22, 2017 12:06 PM NPT By: The New York Times

IRAQ, Nov 22: A shepherd heard the gunshots and the screaming. As Islamic State fighters executed at least 60 people at a remote military base in northern Iraq one day last year, he cowered in his home nearby, terrified. When it was safe to go out, he found piles of bodies; many of them he recognized as his neighbors. He buried them himself.

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