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The Dirty Truth Behind Electric Vehicles
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Volkswagen wants to become the world's biggest environmentally-friendly automaker, with 100,000 electric vehicles a year from 2020 and one million from...
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Staff Picks, Our 15 Best Stories Of 2018
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of "reality-show novels" and costume fiction, a group of young French...
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A Brief And Bitter History Of Being Atheist In Modern Egypt
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Toward the end of 2009, an Egyptian blogger announced the imminent publication of his book, A Muslim Atheist. The title is reflective of a concept he believes in,...
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Shift To Asia? Africa Rising? Big Questions To Track For 2019
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS -Analysis- NEW YORK — As 2018 comes to a close, attention is turning to what is likely to happen in 2019. I have no idea. But if you follow these questions, you will...
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Lagos Postcard: When EU Pushes Migrants To Go Back Home
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT LAGOS — In the midst of a heavy night, in the spotlight of the cargo airport of Lagos, a Nigerian politician gives a blazing speech. "You should be grateful," she says to...
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Making A Very Metaphysical Leap Into 2019
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — It was recently my birthday. I turned 30. The celebrations were muted – if at all – because there’s something of a moment when you exit the tweens, and then the...
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The Fundamental Right To Health, Happiness And Beauty
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — It's been remarked that when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed, they forgot to include people's rights to beauty and happiness....
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Sarajevo, Same Pigeons
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Sarajevo's Baščaršija square is known as "Pigeon square." There are moments when the birds are everywhere. In this shot, you may have to look a bit harder to spot them.
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In South Sudan, A Tailor's Tales Of Fleeing War — Over And Over
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY NYAL — Tracing his worn fingers over a rundown sewing machine, Peter Koang steadied a piece of fabric under the needle. He pressed his foot to the pedal as a skirt began...
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Why Evangelical Christians Keep Betting On Trump
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — By all indications, the reluctant support by white evangelicals for Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in 2016 has solidified into something like...
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Finding The "Holy Grail" Of Volkswagen Microbuses
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — The old VW Microbus isn't much to look at these days. The entire underbody has been eaten away over the years by rust, and one of its doors looks like it...
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Xi Jinping's Provocative Speech And Taiwanese "Consensus"
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Chinese President Xi Jinping's Jan. 2 speech addressing "reunification" with Taiwan has done what no political leader on the island nation has managed recently: set off a...
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Europe, The Naive Power
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Europe is alone. Alone strategically and militarily, as demonstrated once again by President Trump's end-of-year decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria,...
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OneShot: Starman Waiting In The Sky — Remembering Bowie
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT On January 10, 2016, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his final album, Blackstar, the great David Bowie was gone. The shape-shifting rock icon behind songs...
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In Colombia, When Your 7-Year-Old Is Transgender
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — Malena was designated a boy at birth, but — as far as she can remember — she has always identified herself as a girl. She is seven years old now, and thanks to...
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Racism And Soccer In The Time Of Salvini, A Napoli Homecoming
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT NAPLES — It was the last game of 2018, and I was looking forward to it. I had planned to go with my brother, a staunch Napoli fan, my soccer-loving Argentine husband and a...
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Russia Is Exploiting American Racism
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- WASHINGTON — Two newly released reports from the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russian interference in the 2016 election have been nothing short of...
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Just Call (Or Text) Me — Enough With Voice Messages!
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -OpEd- Voice messages are like unannounced visits. You know they are. They come out of nowhere and rob you of a time you'd like to spend doing something else...
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In Chile, Where Remarrying Your Ex Is A Thing
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH SANTIAGO — More than a few unhappy couples gave a sigh of relief when, in 2004, Chile finally began allowing divorce. But not everyone who took advantage of the newfound...
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Behind The Yellow Vests: The Great Fear Of Having Less And Less
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — Did they really have to set France on fire for just a few cents? More than eight weeks after it began, the revolt of the "yellow vests" still seems hard...
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