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America’s Most Expensive Senate Race

✇NYT > World News
di: Katrin Bennhold
The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.

© Kenny Holston/The New York Times; Antranik Tavitian for The New York Times

Ken Paxton and James Talarico.
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Second Ebola Infection Announced in Kenya

✇NYT > World News
di: Matthew Mpoke Bigg
The case is likely to raise alarms in the country and increase scrutiny of the government’s surveillance measures.

© Monicah Mwangi/Reuters

A nurse gestures inside Nairobi Hospital, where an Ebola patient was isolated immediately upon arrival and treated at the hospital’s East Wing Isolation Facility. The patient later died.
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Violent Protests in Albania

✇NYT > World News
di: Fatjona Mejdini · Paul Mozur and Lynsey Chutel
Opposition to a luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner has collided with rising discontent over corruption and the cost of living.

© Adnan Beci/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A protester confronting riot police during an anti-government demonstration in central Tirana, Albania, on Thursday.
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Inside the Plague Research Labs at the Heart of a Russian Mystery

✇NYT > World News
di: K. R. Callaway
A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited these labs, which dot the former Soviet states, and are shrouded in secrecy.

© Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A picture released by the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute showing specialists working in a laboratory in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in 2019.
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32 Children Killed After School Roof Collapses in Pakistan

✇NYT > World News
di: Salman Masood
The collapse, in Peshawar, also killed a teacher and injured dozens of people. A local official said the building appeared to be dilapidated.

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A rescue worker carried a child from a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, after the roof of the building collapsed.
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North Korea and China Open Their Biggest Border Bridge

✇NYT > World News
di: Choe Sang-Hun
The long-delayed opening of the New Yalu River Bridge comes as the two countries expand trade despite international sanctions imposed on North Korea.

© Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News, via Associated Press

The New Yalu River Bridge seen from Dandong, China, on Thursday, the day it opened.
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Home of London’s Oldest Restaurant, Rules, Is Given to National Trust

✇NYT > World News
di: Amelia Nierenberg
The restaurant Rules is an institution. Now the National Trust, which preserves Britain’s heritage, plans to safeguard the landmark.

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The interior of Rules, a British mainstay in the Covent Garden neighborhood of London. In the centuries since it opened, the restaurant has served London’s wealthy and wordy, its royals and its regulars.
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OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis

✇NYT > World News
di: Emmy Martin
The employee, now fired, had said he advised government agencies in Saudi Arabia. He was also listed as a partner at a venture firm with a Saudi prince.

© Aaron Wojack for The New York Times

The San Francisco offices of OpenAI. According to a court filing, a thumb-size recording device wrapped in toilet paper was found plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room.
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Mexico Bans Violent Content on Social Media for Children

✇NYT > World News
di: James Wagner
Joining a global movement, President Claudia Sheinbaum signed a decree requiring the removal of a range of material for people under 18 and held out the prospect of tougher measures.

© Marco Ugarte/Associated Press

A student turning over his phone before entering a classroom in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico has clamped down on phone use in schools.
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