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Maduro, The Sequel: Can Venezuelan Democracy Be Saved?
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTÁ — The Lima Group, a multilateral body of 14 American countries focused on resolving the institutional and democratic standoff in Venezuela, has...
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Watch: OneShot — The Face Of Trump's Shutdown
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT It's the silent (and sullied) face of an unprecedented presidency. The partial government shutdown that Donald Trump has brought on in his battle with congressional Democrats...
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Miles And Miles Across Canada
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH In the westernmost point of British Columbia, we found the "Mile 0" marker of the Trans-Canada Highway. Though we covered a lot of Canadian ground, we never made it the...
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A Hacker Pays For Egypt's Ambiguous Relationship With Data
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Egypt’s Ministry of Interior recently announced that its General Directorate of Information Technology had arrested the creator of a computer program “designed to...
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Poetry In The Time Of Tumblr And Taringa
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — "Clouds pass, slowly dissolving/ It's a holiday in the sky at least/ birds glide serenely overhead/ a baker rises, losing himself/ up in the air so light/...
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What China Flexing Tech Muscle Means For India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE MUMBAI — For years, India’s relationship with its biggest trading partner, China, has been defined by a one-sided kind of “buy-buy” — Indian hunger for Chinese machinery and...
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Watch: OneShot — UNICEF France Welcomes 2019
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT UNICEF France is ringing in 2019 with their greatest mission of all: ensuring every child grows up in the best conditions and has all the tools needed to build a future. And...
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How Japan Can Help Soften U.S.-China Showdown
Worldcrunch.com / THE JAPAN NEWS -OpEd- TOKYO — The United States has turned to inward-looking politics, while the unifying force of Europe has waned due to rampant populism and confusion in Britain,...
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Clean Trees In Naples: When Ecology Invades Mob Territory
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA GIUGLIANO — Thousands of poplars run parallel, in neat rows. The sun illuminates their thin trunks. Looking at this wood of Giugliano, in the northern outskirts of Naples,...
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Not Only Syrians: Turkey Must Welcome All Asylum Seekers
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY -OpEd- KAYSERI — On a cold day in the Turkish city of Kayseri last November, we sat in the living room of two young men, Mustafa, aged 18, and Hafiz, 23, as they told us...
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Achtung Autobahn! Why Germany Needs A Highway Speed Limit
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -OpEd- Anyone sitting in one of those huge pieces of fine machinery for the first time and accelerating to more than 200 km/h (125 mph) will have felt the kick,...
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Grandmother's Memory - India's Religious Misogyny Must End
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Essay- MUMBAI — In my memories of my grandmother, one image of her comes to my mind: that of a widow with a tonsured head, wrapped in a dull brown cotton sari worn in...
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Ninja Fruit On Brazilian Roadside
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Fruit vendors were a common sight when we drove through Brazil's Minas Gerais state. My wife Claudine didn't have to wait long: It took this woman no longer than three...
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Belle Époque Glamor Coming Back To Harrods — In Buenos Aires
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Entering Harrods — the luxury store in Buenos Aires, not London — one feels as one might have felt boarding the Titanic. The comparison is not far-fetched: both...
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Watch: OneShot — Salvador Dali 30 Years On, Still Suspended In Surrealism
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT There's nothing (and everything) left to chance in the world-famous image Life magazine photographer Philippe Halsman, shot in 1948, of the legendary surrealist painter...
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Between Ljubljana And Trumplandia, A French Airport Odyssey
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER WASHINGTON — If you ever want to fly to America from Charles de Gaulle Airport, be sure that you are not landing in terminal 2F, as you might miss your flight, or even get...
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Brexit Deadlock Spooks Asian Corporate Heavyweights
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS The growing alarm after UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffered a defeat in Parliament isn’t just unsettling for British politics. Global businesses are...
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China's Overworked Students: A Government Responsibility
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — At the end of December, China's Education Ministry issued a notice to all provincial governments concerning the “reduction of the academic burden” of...
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Thou Shalt Never Be Polite To Robots
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Essay- PARIS — Google Home, the search giant’s personal assistant with which you can engage in basic conversation, has just introduced the “Pretty Please” function. This...
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A New Menace To Society In Maduro's Venezuela: Malaria
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR CARACAS — Malaria has made an alarming comeback in Venezuela after being all but eliminated. But trying to find a doctor who'll talk about it isn't easy. Most avoid...
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