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News in Pictures: March 27, 2024

                     

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Paris museum takes visitors back to birth of Impressionism

PARIS—The Orsay Museum in Paris is marking 150 years of impressionism from Tuesday with an…

PH urged to fix legal ‘loopholes’ that weaken women’s rights

There are still some “loopholes” in the Philippines’ legal framework that allow discrimination against women…

After Oscars party, Hollywood faces a strike-slimmed movie slate

LOS ANGELES—The movie industry celebrated “Oppenheimer” and other successes at the Oscars on Sunday, but…

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Sizzling summer for Elvis-era 1950s swimwear

With the rising temperatures heralding the arrival of summer, it’s quite fitting that the three-day…

Hiroshima grapples with ‘Oppenheimer’ Oscars success

HIROSHIMA—“Oppenheimer” had a glittering night at the Oscars but in Hiroshima, devastated by the first…

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Nato prepares for Russian threat in harsh Arctic

BADDEREN, NORWAY—Finnish conscript Atte Ohman readied himself aboard a US landing ship to storm a…

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‘Sacred job’: Iraq Kurds digitize books to save threatened culture

DuHoK, Iraq—Huddled in the back of a van, Rebin Pishtiwan carefully scans one yellowed page…

Soccer hero Messi’s first contract, written on a napkin, up for auction

NEW YORK—To the untrained eye, it might look like just another used napkin. But the…

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Relatives of Malaysia plane crash victims mark 10 years since disappearance

KUALA LUMPUR—Relatives of passengers on a Malaysia Airlines plane that mysteriously vanished 10 years ago…