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What Travelers Need to Know About Hard-Hit North Carolina

Over the past decade, tourism has boomed in and around Asheville, N.C., with visitors drawn to the temperate climate, green mountains and beautiful waterfalls of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The number of second homes in the area has multiplied, as have the number of short-term home rentals. The region was …

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In a Cat-and-Mouse Game, Russian Oil Tankers Are Flying New Flags

The Jaguar, a tanker the length of nearly five Olympic-size swimming pools, left a port near St. Petersburg, Russia, last year, bound for India and loaded with Russian oil. Its trip that spring came as Western authorities were frantically trying to piece together the network to which it belonged: one …

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What to Know About the Marburg Virus Disease Outbreak

Rwanda is in the midst of an outbreak of Marburg virus disease, a hemorrhagic fever with a high fatality rate that has killed 11 people there this year. The disease has been found in multiple African countries over the last several decades but never before in Rwanda, in east-central Africa. …

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