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For countries battling the coronavirus pandemic, Sweden sets a seductive example. While the world’s biggest economies have shut down, one small, well-governed Scandinavian country has allowed most businesses to stay open. The strategy apparently relies on “herd immunity,” in which a critical mass of infection occurs in lower-risk populations that ultimately thwarts transmission. But the reality is

Note: Official figures are seasonally adjusted. This week’s claims are not seasonally adjusted and represent a third of total national employment. Source: Department of Labor, state level reporting. Numbers released on Thursday by the Labor Department — as well as a preliminary analysis of even more recent data — provide the first hard confirmation that the new coronavirus is bringing the United S

Spraying disinfectant on Sunday at a market in Daegu, the southeastern city where many of South Korea’s coronavirus infections have been confirmed.Credit...Yonhap, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images South Korea’s leader urges an ‘all-out, concerted response.’President Moon Jae-in on Sunday put South Korea on the highest possible alert in its fight against the coronavirus, a move that empowers

YOKOHAMA, Japan — The captain came over the intercom early in the evening: A passenger who had left the ship nine days earlier had tested positive for the new coronavirus sweeping through China. While the guests on board were unnerved, it was the final night of their two-week luxury cruise aboard the Diamond Princess. The revelry continued as the ship headed toward the port in Yokohama, Japan’s se

A few drugs are being tested in clinical trials, but a vaccine is still at least a year away. While the virus is a serious public health concern, you are very unlikely to get infected outside of areas where it is spreading widely, including China, Italy, Iran and South Korea. To avoid any viral illness, experts advise washing your hands frequently and avoiding your office or school when you’re sic

SOUNDBITE (Korean) Cho June-hyuck, South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman: “South Korean government highly values the US government’s designation of a Chinese company, Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development, and related individuals as targets of sanctions on Monday, September 26 local time, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13382. The designation is perceived to be a reconfirmation of the US g

TOKYO — For almost two decades, Japan has been held up as a cautionary tale, an object lesson on how not to run an advanced economy. After all, the island nation is the rising superpower that stumbled. One day, it seemed, it was on the road to high-tech domination of the world economy; the next it was suffering from seemingly endless stagnation and deflation. And Western economists were scathing i

Dallas fire rescue workers wearing protective gear on Wednesday taped off a door at the Village Bend East apartments, where a second health care worker who has tested positive for Ebola lives.Credit...Sana Syed/City of Dallas Public Information, via Associated Press The second Dallas health care worker to test positive for Ebola took a flight on Monday from Cleveland to the Dallas area the day bef

Ukraine released what it said was audio from phone calls between rebels and Russian officers after the downing of Malaysia Airlines 17. In one call, a rebel says, “We have just shot down a plane.”

Students and others gathered at a park in Isla Vista, Calif. on Saturday for a candlelight vigil. Credit...Jae C. Hong/Associated Press

Armed forces patrolled a checkpoint on a road between Sevastopol and Simferopol in Crimea on Saturday.Credit...Uriel Sinai for The New York Times SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine — Tensions mounted on the eve of a secession referendum here in Crimea as helicopter-borne Russian forces made a provocative incursion just outside the peninsula’s regional border to seize a natural gas terminal, while American and Eu

TOKYO — In the post-Cold War period, Japan has been continually buffeted by the winds of market fundamentalism in a U.S.-led movement that is more usually called globalization. In the fundamentalist pursuit of capitalism people are treated not as an end but as a means. Consequently, human dignity is lost. How can we put an end to unrestrained market fundamentalism and financial capitalism, that ar

Chinese officials listened to a speech by President Obama, in which he described ties between the two countries as "important as any bilateral relationship in the world."Credit...Brendan Smialowski for The New York Times WASHINGTON � The United States and China inaugurated two days of high-level talks on Monday, exchanging promises of great-power cooperation on weighty issues like climate change w