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Merkel urges Europe to rise to climate change challenge

Gabriele Maricchiolo | NurPhoto | Getty Images Justin Trudeau, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron at the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Italy. In the aftermath of Britain’s departure from the European Union and the U.S.’s withdrawal from the Paris …

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A Bounty of Hip-Hop Classics, Resurrected

This new version is on triple vinyl that includes the original album, unreleased tracks from the era and old and new remixes. It is a reminder of a particularly untethered time in the genre, when the underground was still a nebulous concept, home to dissenters of all stripes, including outsider-art …

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R2-D2 droid used in ‘Star Wars’ films sells for $2.76 million

Mike Windle | Getty Images for SXSW R2-D2 attends the screening of ‘Secrets of The Force Awakens: A Cinematic Journey’ during the 2016 SXSW Music, Film + Interactive Festival at Paramount Theatre on March 14, 2016 in Austin, Texas. An R2-D2 droid that was used in several “Star Wars” films …

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What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Lost City of Z’ and ‘Tell No One’

Photo Tom Holland, center left, and Charlie Hunnam in “The Lost City of Z.” Credit Aidan Monaghan/Amazon Studios, via Bleecker Street, via Associated Press Charlie Hunnam mesmerizes as a British explorer lured time and again into the Amazon in “The Lost City of Z.” “Tell No One,” a French thriller, …

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Your Literary Idols and Their Wardrobes

“In the beginning, I thought perhaps people would think I was a bit crazy to pick all these literary heavyweights and write about their clothes,” Ms. Newman said by phone from Britain when I called to ask her about it. “And I did think, ‘Well, is my premise correct?’” Continue …

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Keeping Up With New Delhi’s 1 Percent in ‘The Windfall’

The result is a story that’s the stuff of Amartya Sen’s worst nightmares and Tom Wolfe’s sweetest dreams: Anil Jha, serial entrepreneur, one day sells his company for $20 million, suddenly giving his family the means to move from its lively, middle-class housing complex (short on privacy, long on community) …

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Australian police charge Vatican treasurer George Pell over historical sexual assaults

Franco Origlia | Getty Images Cardinal George Pell, the former archbishop of Sydney at the Vatican City, Vatican. Australian police said on Thursday they have charged the Vatican’s treasurer, Australian Cardinal George Pell, with multiple sexual assault offences. “Cardinal Pell is facing multiple charges in respect of historic sexual offences,” …

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Review: ‘In a Word’ Grapples With Loss and Language

Photo Laura Ramadei and José Joaquin Pérez, foreground, and Justin Mark, background, in “In a Word.” Credit Hunter Canning Fiona has lost her son. Two years ago, Tristan, a second-grader, disappeared from her car during a stop at a gas station. The case has gone Kelvin-scale cold, with hope yielding …

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Drama, Humor and a Sex Scene Every 15 Minutes

The festival’s roman porno offerings — Akihiko Shiota’s “Wet Woman in the Wind” (July 4), Kazuya Shiraishi’s “Dawn of the Felines” (July 4) and Isao Yukisada’s “Aroused by Gymnopédies” (July 14) — follow the regulations. Each is about 80 minutes long, and loud, enthusiastic but relatively tame sex scenes crop …

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Japan May retail sales rise 2.0 percent on-year, coming in below 2.6 percent forecast

Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images Shoppers look at ‘lucky bags’ containing luxury watches displayed outside a store on January 1, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese retail sales rose 2.0 percent in May from a year earlier, government data showed on Thursday, compared with economists’ median estimate of a 2.6 percent …

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