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The Eiffel Tower has embarked on the most extensive revamp of its 130-year history to look its best for the 2024 Paris Olympics, including with a paint job giving it a distinctly golden hue. Not only will layers from the

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Europe faces a rising risk of sliding into its second recession since the pandemic first struck as high infection rates and government restrictions left its services sector mired in a fifth straight month of contraction.

At the center of Netflix’s Firefly Lane are Kate and Tully, a pair of inseparable best friends who meet in 1974, when they’re 14 years old. For decades to follow, they are there for each other through all the hardships

When the city of Tonghua in China’s northeast shut residents in their homes in response to new coronavirus cases in January, it forced a reckoning with some harsh economic realities.

A Myanmar court has charged ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi with breaching an import and export law, a spokesperson from her National League for Democracy (NLD) said Wednesday. The charges come days after the military staged a lightning coup,

Pop superstar Rihanna and climate activist Greta Thunberg drew the ire of the Indian government Wednesday after they tweeted in support of the massive farmers’ protest against new agriculture laws. Tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the

India has issued a notice to Twitter, warning the American social firm to comply with New Delhi’s order to block accounts and content related to a protest by farmers and not “assume the role of a court and justify non-compliance.”

Britain’s vaccination drive is showing early signs of curbing Covid-19 infections, a promising litmus test of how a mass inoculation campaign in a developed nation can slowly turn the tide on the virus.

My last encounter with Aung San Suu Kyi, my friend of more than 20 years, was a painful one. I was invited to Myanmar in January 2018 as part of an international panel the government set up to advise on