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Pyongyang Potential: Could North Korea's Economy Take Off?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS SEOUL — Last month, Ian Bennett hosted a start-up workshop in Pyongyang. Several times a year, the computer scientist travels to North Korea to run training seminars...
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Watch: OneShot, Moe Zorayi — Burqa Women In White
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Our new OneShot proves that ghosts are real: Moe Zorayi has photographic evidence from Afghanistan ... Listen to the award-winning Iranian-American photographer tell the...
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Algeria Cocaine Bust Reveals New Global Hub In Narcotics Network
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH ORAN — On May 29th, Algerian authorities discovered 701 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a meat container on a merchant ship in the port of Oran. The bust was one of...
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Hardline On Immigration: Human Rights Or Democratic Will?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Central American migrant parents and children are reuniting in Texas. After being stranded off the coast of Italy, the Aquarius ship has now safely docked in the...
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Hardline On Immigration: Human Rights Or Democratic Will?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Central American migrant parents and children are reuniting in Texas. After being stranded off the coast of Italy, the Aquarius ship has now safely docked in the...
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Why Russia Is Not Like Venezuela — Yet
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MOSCOW — Nicolas Maduro has been reelected as Venezuela's president for a new six-year term. Alexei Kolesnikov in the Moscow-based independent magazine The New Times...
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Beyoncé, Jay-Z And The Louvre, The Making Of A Museum Marketing Coup
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — How do we decide what is the world's top museum? Its size, prestige, collection, the number of visitors — and the way it showcases its brand. The Louvre remains...
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A Balinese Basket Riddle
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Can you guess what is traditionally kept under these woven bamboo baskets, on the Indonesian island of Bali? I'll give you a hint: In French, they go "Cocorico"!
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Suicide By Pesticide, A Preventable Plague In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — The ban on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) currently being debated in India will not only protect the environment and improve the public health but will also...
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Why Philosophers Are Hot Profiles On Corporate Job Market
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — The return of humanities to the business world is becoming more and more visible. With technical jobs being replaced by robots, the quest for meaning in an...
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Four Years Later, Brazil Counts On World Cup Superstition
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Ask anybody with a minimum of knowledge about either the sport or the country, and they'll tell you that soccer in Brazil is like a religion. This truism becomes all the...
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Watch: OneShot - Helen Keller
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT She was born with her sight and hearing on June 27, 1880. Soon after, an illness left Helen Keller deaf and blind for life. But that didn't stop the Alabama native from...
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Why German Turks Can't Get Enough Of Erdogan
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — They lined up in motorcades, honking horns, waving flags. It was as if Turkey had just won the World Cup, except that Turkey isn’t even in the tournament...
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Nicaraguan Regime Crackdown Is A Humanitarian Emergency
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Editorial- BOGOTA —The Daniel Ortega regime in Nicaragua is continuing its bloodbath against the opposition. So far, at least 212 have been killed since protests...
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For A Tunisian City, The Mediterranean Offers Hope And Death
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA EL HAMMA — Departing in mass from this small southern city, 74 young, unemployed Tunisians left in search of a brighter future in Europe. On June 3, 44 of them died in the...
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Early To The Aqueduct's Birthday
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH When my wife and I toured northwestern Spain in the early 1970s, we made sure to visit the Roman aqueduct of Segovia. Two years later would mark its 2,000th birthday.
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Mexico's Election, Between Fear And Disgust
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — Mexico's upcoming general elections bring to mind the words of David Konzevik, an economist from the other end of the Americas. "Anyone who...
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How Recycling Goes Down In The Heart Of Buenos Aires
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Yard shovels, conveyor belts, sprinklers and dump trucks all work in involuntary concert on a five-story, six-hectare recycling plant in central Buenos Aires....
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Seeking New Labor Protection For All The World's Ship Workers
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY SAN FRANCISCO — The world’s mariners are protected by what may be the only minimum wage established across an entire global industry. Now, labor advocates are mobilizing...
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Poverty In Mexico, The Roots Of López Obrador's Victory
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- Andrés Manuel López Obrador stormed to victory in Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday after a campaign largely driven by the leftist-populist...
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