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Delegations from the United States, Russia, and China and other countries struck a deal on Thursday to refrain from commercial fishing in the high Arctic seas, one of world’s fastest-warming places, until scientists can determine what fish are the…
Published: December 1, 2017 at 01:03AM
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By PATRICK BOEHLER
Here’s what you need to know to start your day.
Published: December 1, 2017 at 12:02AM
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By DANIEL POLITI and ERNESTO LONDOÑO
More than two weeks after the San Juan vanished, the navy said its rescue mission has become a search for the remains of the vessel.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 06:05PM
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By ANDREW E. KRAMER
In a “landmark agreement,” eight nations and the European Union reached an agreement to impose a moratorium on fishing in newly ice-free areas in the high Arctic.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 07:46PM
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By REUTERS
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions refused to answer questions on Thursday during a closed congressional hearing about whether President Donald Trump ever instructed him to hinder the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference i…
Published: November 30, 2017 at 11:06AM
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By CLAIRE MESSUD
The country has been home to the Phoenicians, the Greeks, the Romans and the Ottomans — which might explain the allure of this Mediterranean gem.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 12:56PM
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By JOHN ANDERSON
Recruited to film Bedouin women in a Lebanese refugee camp when the male director was barred, a sculptor finds herself at the center of the project.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 10:00AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
India’s economy grew 6.3 percent in the quarter ending in September from a year earlier, rebounding from 5.7 percent growth in the previous quarter.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 08:30AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
When an enormous volcano belches ash and the people who live around it flee, you get out too, right? Probably. But apparently not always.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 06:39AM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Heavy rain and winds across Sri Lanka have left at least four people dead and 23 others missing, including more than a dozen fishermen, the government said Thursday.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 02:06AM
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By REUTERS
Japan’s coast guard on Thursday boarded a North Korean fishing boat near a Japanese island where the crew said they had taken shelter from rough seas, the latest in a series of North Korean vessels in distress drifting into Japanese waters.
Published: November 30, 2017 at 04:12AM
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By REUTERS
Iceland’s opposition leader Katrin Jakobsdottir will become the country’s new prime minister, after her Left-Green Movement on Wednesday agreed to form a coalition government, state broadcaster RUV reported.
Published: November 29, 2017 at 05:33PM
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By REUTERS
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee are close to an agreement on how to overhaul a controversial National Security Agency surveillance program and hope to complete legislation soon, the top Democrat on the panel sai…
Published: November 29, 2017 at 04:30PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An advisory group is recommending regulators reopen New England’s long-shuttered shrimp fishery next year.
Published: November 29, 2017 at 01:15PM
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Generations of native Sami people living in remote northern Norway have been victims of rape and child sex abuse that has gone largely unreported and uninvestigated, police have acknowledged in a report citing deep failings in the way authorities …
Published: November 29, 2017 at 06:54AM
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