By Steven Erlanger and Matina Stevis-Gridneff from NYT World https://ift.tt/3j3zBiM
via IFTTT Already criticized for a slow rollout for its 27 members, Brussels retreated on export controls linked to Ireland and Brexit.

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs from NYT World https://ift.tt/2L6oDg8
via IFTTT The situation highlights the challenge posed by the two vaccines that have so far been approved in the United States — both need to be kept cold.

By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Fahim Abed and Jim Huylebroek from NYT World https://ift.tt/3qYju99
via IFTTT The sneakers have been worn by Afghan fighters over multiple generations, but they’ve become a gruesome marker of the Taliban’s violent insurgency.

By Roni Caryn Rabin from NYT World https://ift.tt/2M5ZqTu
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By Isabel Kershner from NYT World https://ift.tt/3a4lHJh
via IFTTT Initial studies show a significant drop in infections and hospitalizations after just one dose, and very few cases after two. Experts caution that the results are preliminary.

By Raphael Minder from NYT World https://ift.tt/3iHvqJz
via IFTTT Life in Cañada Real, home to about 8,000 people, is “just as horrendous” as in Bosnian refugee camps, said one humanitarian aid worker who has visited both.

By Kirk Semple and Lena Mucha from NYT World https://ift.tt/3pe9qZc
via IFTTT Catching spiny lobsters is a stunningly dangerous pursuit for the mostly Indigenous fishermen along the country’s Caribbean coast, requiring deep plunges with subpar gear.

By Katrin Bennhold and Michael Schwirtz from NYT World https://ift.tt/3iOty1K
via IFTTT Leaderless but united by racist ideology that has been supercharged by social media, extremists have built a web of real and online connections that worry officials.

By Austin Ramzy from NYT World https://ift.tt/3c2QiK1
via IFTTT At least 11 miners who were trapped 2,000 feet below ground in the blast have been rescued. Others are still missing.

By Anton Troianovski, Andrew E. Kramer and Andrew Higgins from NYT World https://ift.tt/39Skc0K
via IFTTT Demonstrations in support of the jailed opposition leader swept the nation, beginning in the Far East, where people braved subzero temperatures, and reaching the capital. Arrests climbed into the thousands.

By Gilles Sabrié, Christopher Buckley, Keith Bradsher, Vivian Wang and Amy Qin from NYT World https://ift.tt/3c7L9jJ
via IFTTT A year ago, Wuhan offered a warning about the coronavirus. Now, it heralds a world where relief at the recovery conceals the emotional aftershocks.

By Mona El-Naggar and Yousur Al-Hlou from NYT World https://ift.tt/38V7ZJC
via IFTTT For many Egyptians, a video offered a rare and uncensored view of the coronavirus’s real toll at the peak of Egypt’s second wave of the pandemic.

By Anton Troianovski and Ivan Nechepurenko from NYT World https://ift.tt/3sw9eqj
via IFTTT Aleksei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, landed in Russia Sunday night five months after he was poisoned with a nerve agent.

By Thomas Erdbrink from NYT World https://ift.tt/3nLZp42
via IFTTT A parliamentary report concluded that tax authorities unfairly targeted poor families over child care benefits. Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire cabinet stepped down.

By Alan Cowell from NYT World https://ift.tt/3bEJJx5
via IFTTT One of the resident birds at the Tower of London is feared to have died. Legend says at least six must be kept there, or the nation will fall.

By Abby Goodnough from NYT World https://ift.tt/38E4pDp
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By Salman Masood from NYT World https://ift.tt/38w8BoO
via IFTTT The capital, Islamabad, and most major cities were affected in what was one of the biggest power failures to hit the country of 200 million people.

By Hannah Beech and Muktita Suhartono from NYT World https://ift.tt/39w8toD
via IFTTT The Boeing 737-524, a Sriwijaya Air flight, had taken off from Jakarta. Officials said they believed they found part of the wreckage.

By Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman from NYT World https://ift.tt/3ouZFpj
via IFTTT Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has shot down a supposed plan for the president to pass the Biden inauguration at his Turnberry links.

By Elian Peltier and Megan Specia from NYT World https://ift.tt/3pSH0E9
via IFTTT U.S. officials want the WikiLeaks founder to face charges of violating the Espionage Act. But a judge in London ruled that he was at extreme risk of suicide.

By Stephen Castle and Mark Landler from NYT World https://ift.tt/38fHePH
via IFTTT Prime Minister Boris Johnson closed schools and declared a national lockdown in England, following on the heels of Scotland.

By Ruth Maclean from NYT World https://ift.tt/388Ys18
via IFTTT All 54 African countries put together have registered fewer Covid deaths than France. That doesn’t mean people aren’t dying from the virus.

By Steven Lee Myers from NYT World https://ift.tt/352DvTi
via IFTTT Xi Jinping has been making trade agreements in Asia and now Europe, hoping to head off the incoming president’s efforts to rally a united front against China.

By Isabel Kershner from NYT World https://ift.tt/2X3qjte
via IFTTT Badly hit by the coronavirus, Israel has distributed the first of two vaccine doses to more than 10 percent of its population. Prime Minister Netanyahu is leading the charge, bolstering his own battered image along the way.

By David M. Halbfinger from NYT World https://ift.tt/3pIHcpm
via IFTTT After six years of quiet diplomacy as the U.N.’s Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov leaves his post to a chorus of praise from an unlikely choir.

By Oscar Lopez from NYT World https://ift.tt/3o7Jz4D
via IFTTT Hospitals are at capacity and coronavirus cases are surging, but many foreigners, especially Americans, are heading to the Mexican capital — some intending to stay awhile.