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Holiday travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Dec. 23.Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times Sunday was the busiest day for U.S. airports since mid-March, underscoring concerns that a spike in holiday travel may contribute to the spread of the coronavirus, even as new cases remain alarmingly high and officials plead with Americans to avoid taking unnecessary risks. The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 1.3 million people on Sunday, the most since March 15, when airline passenger numbers were in free-fall as the pandemic began to take h...

Dec 28 2020 10:50 Gmt+3 Last Updated On: Dec 28 2020 10:55 Gmt+3 Poverty and a slump in support for his governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan into a sharp change of direction on economic policy. “People are at the point of explosion,” said Özgür Akbaş, the owner of a tobacco shop in a wealthy neighbourhood of Turkey’s capital Ankara, describing how two elderly women came into his shop last week. One asked to buy a single egg and the other wanted free bread, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Turkey was already battered...