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One woman said she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event when a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch. Another said she felt pressured into a sexual relationship with an executive and was fired after she rejected him. A third said that a co-worker grabbed her face and tried to kiss her, and she used her umbrella to fend him off. These women did not work among older men at a hidebound company.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Even before a defiant Roy S.

We on The New York Times’s Community desk have never been busier. This year we shattered the previous record for the most commented-on news article in Times history (see that story revealed below). Under the hood, The Times adopted a new moderation platform that allowed us to open more stories for comments than ever before. But we’ve had some fun, too.

We on The New York Times’s Community desk have never been busier. This year we shattered the previous record for the most commented-on news article in Times history (see that story revealed below). Under the hood, The Times adopted a new moderation platform that allowed us to open more stories for comments than ever before. But we’ve had some fun, too.

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MANILA — Fire crews battling an enormous blaze that tore through a shopping mall in a southern city in the Philippines, trapping at least 37 people, pulled one body from the building, the mayor said on Sunday. But the vice mayor said there was “zero” chance of survival for the other 36. Firefighters have been unable to enter the mall in Davao City after the fire started on Saturday morning, the vice mayor, Paolo Duterte, said. “Our firemen are still struggling to find a way in as the fire is still burning,” Mr. Duterte said.

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle on Saturday partially lifted a Trump administration ban on certain refugees after two groups argued that the policy prevented people from some mostly Muslim countries from reuniting with family living legally in the United States. U.S. District Judge James Robart heard arguments Thursday in lawsuits from the American Civil Liberties Union and Jewish Family Service, which say the ban causes irreparable harm and puts some people at risk.

MOSCOW — Hundreds of supporters of the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny nominated him for president on Sunday, allowing him to ready the endorsement papers required for candidacy and putting pressure on the Kremlin to allow him to run. Mr. Navalny, one of the most formidable foes President Vladimir V. Putin has faced during 18 years in power, is prohibited from seeking political office because of a criminal conviction that is largely viewed as retribution.

North Korea on Sunday called the latest round of punishing United Nations sanctions an “act of war,” and reminded the United States that the North’s rapid development of missiles and atomic bombs meant it posed a “substantial nuclear threat to the U.S.

LIMA, Peru — Alberto Fujimori, who as Peru’s leader in the 1990s revived the economy and crushed two violent leftist insurgencies, but was forced out in a corruption scandal and later imprisoned for human rights abuses, received a medical pardon on Sunday night, a decision that prompted an outcry across the Andean nation. The Christmas Eve pardon was approved by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who narrowly survived a bid by Congr