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Amid Sanctions, Russian Oil Tankers Are Flying New Flags
A shadowy network of ships has registered in Gabon, highlighting how Vladimir V. Putin is building an economy beyond the reach of Western sanctions.
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S. Iswaran, Ex-Singapore Minister, Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison
The sentence for S. Iswaran, a former transportation minister who pleaded guilty last week, was longer than what prosecutors had sought.
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U.K. to Hand Over Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Ending Colonial-Era Dispute
After years of legal wrangling and negotiations, Britain said it would surrender sovereignty of the archipelago in the Indian Ocean.
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Brooklyn Museum at 200 Celebrates Beauty and Art’s Hidden History
A new American wing draws on feminist and racially and ethnically diverse thinking to spotlight 400 exceptional works in its collection.
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Artist Lee Bul Ruffles the Met’s Staid Niches
The artist for the fifth Facade Commission created Cubist sculptures that look forward and backward. The question is what more the Met can do going forward.
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Love Yourself: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, and Aaron Schimberg on “A Different Man”
“A Different Man’s” point of view is layered, introspective, and completely unique. The second collaboration between actor Adam Pearson and writer-director Aaron Schimberg — the two previously worked together on Schimberg’s “Chained for Life” — is based on a real-life dialogue between Pearson and Schimberg (with Sebastian Stan joining in later on) on disfigurement, visible…
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The Food of Space Travel Could Be Based on Rocks
Scientists are studying whether future astronauts on deep-space journeys could transform compounds in asteroids into food.
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A Rosh Hashana Recipe Keeps the Memory of Home
Legumbres para rosana, a dish of Spanish Moroccan origin, is a delicious reminder of a family’s journey.
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Movie Theater Food Becomes Bigger
Over-the-top specialty concessions at theaters aren’t new, but they are newly everywhere.
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How to Make Focaccia di Recco
And it’s something you can make at home.