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Extreme Heat Puts Life on Hold in Britain, a Land Not Built for It

LONDON — Trains slowed to a crawl. Schools and doctors’ offices shut their doors. The British Museum closed its galleries. Buckingham Palace curtailed the changing of the guard. And the government urged people to work from home. Much of Britain took an involuntary siesta on Monday as merciless heat filtered north from a fire-ravaged European […]

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Rumbling Through Modern Jordan, a Railway From the Past

AMMAN, Jordan — Astride century-old tracks that cut through the modern metropolis of Amman, a historic train blared a horn to announce its departure. That sound spurred families bearing bags of food, pots of coffee, coolers of soda, grills, hookahs and lots of children into action, scrambling up iron ladders to settle into the train’s […]

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