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A Russian Guide For Surviving U.S. Midterm Elections
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT MOSCOW — The already shaken Russian-American relations are about to face new turmoil as Nov. 6 midterm elections to the U.S. Congress loom. During Donald Trump's...
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Storm Looms For Trump After Courtroom Bombshells
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — No day during President Donald Trump's 19 months in office could prove as dangerous or debilitating as Tuesday. Everything that happened in a pair of...
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Greetings From The Instagram Hotel
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — From a digital point of view, the Norwegian Erik Nissen Johansen is at the forefront: Even his cat has Instagram. No wonder then that the hotel designer...
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In Canada And France, Hijabs In Advertising Spark Outrage
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MONTREAL — The video lasted just seven seconds, but it was enough to unleash a fury of online outrage. “They could have chosen anyone else to make an ad,” one Facebook...
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The Dollar, The World's One Currency Is Trump's Best Weapon
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Making the American dollar the only global reserve currency, thus undermining the euro and Europe's monetary strategy, while preventing China's dream of financial...
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Duchamp To Provoking Popes: The Contemporary Art Of Scandal
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — A white porcelain urinal turned around and signed R. Mutt 1917 on the lower edge: The work, called "Fountain", confounded the jury at the First Annual...
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How Trump Forced A News Columnist Into News Detox
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — I think a news diet would be healthy for Colombia. Like those intermittent detoxes used to cleanse the body, the social corpus also needs a break, a...
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Watch: OneShot, Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing Began One Year Ago
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Saturday marks exactly one year since the Myanmar military began to force the Rohingya out of the Rakhine state in what a top United Nations official later called “a textbook...
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Just A Handshake? Touchy Subject For Pious Muslims In The West
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — The traditional Muslim veil has long been a source of conflict in the West over integration and gender equality. Now, another familiar practice is prompting...
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Grimm Choices: How Energy Transition Threatens A Fairy Tale Forest
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT KASSEL — It's a mystical place full of giant, gnarled, centuries-old trees, rare animals and fabulous castles. It's also the home of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales, and...
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Losing My Faith In The Catholic Church
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST The major disgrace of America’s Catholic bishops was to foster a culture in which priests sexually assaulted children and were then sent on to new duties as their...
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Is Latin America Ripe For A Startup Revolution?
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MADRID — The leaders of Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Peru weren't the only ones who traveled to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico last month for the latest...
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Why Egypt Could Be In The Path Of Turkey's Currency Crisis
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Over the past few weeks, the United States doubled tariffs on Turkish imports of aluminum and steel, sending the Turkish lira plunging to record lows. Turkey’s...
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Watch: OneShot, Giving Voice To Kidney Disease Victims In Peru
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Photojournalist and National Geographic storyteller Ed Kashi has traveled to rural Peru to document the effects of Chronic Kidney Disease of undetermined causes (CKDu), which...
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Lady Liberté From Up Close
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Taking pictures of Lady Liberty with my telelens wasn't even the highlight of this crisp October day in New York City: A couple of hours later, on nearby Ellis Island, I...
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In Northern Colombia, LGBT Rights Meet Indigenous Prejudice
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR CARTAGENA — Prejudice "is an everyday thing," says Tania Duarte, a gay community leader in Cartagena, the historic port and resort on Colombia's Caribbean coast. Her...
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The Lucrative Business Of Bogus Scientific Conferences
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — The French capital was set to be the world capital of science. On May 17-18, no fewer than 50 conferences in the fields of aerospace, mechanics, energy, the...
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India Grows More Food Than It Needs, Yet Hunger Persists
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE “After a prolonged decline, world hunger appears to be on the rise again”, claims a report titled ‘The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (2017)’ by the Food...
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Weight Of Words, What A Novelist Won't Give Away To Facebook
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Facebook irritates me, entertains, consoles, bores and infuriates me, moves and depresses me — but above all, it exhausts me. Rewind to 2008, and I am in...
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"Rich Brats" And Me: The Struggles Of Chinese Studying Abroad
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — It's that time of a year again when an ever growing number of Chinese students are leaving to study abroad. These young people attract a lot of attention,...
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