A Swiss Ski Pass Start-Up Looks To Uberize The Slopes
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS One needs skiers, the other, passengers. Skioo and Uber are now partnered to transport city dwellers to the snow-covered slopes. It was this past weekend, during a test...
View ArticleWhy The War In Syria Is Far From Over
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- It had long been anticipated, but the fall of Aleppo still marks a decisive turning point in the Syrian war. It reduces almost to nothingness the opposition's...
View ArticleHard Questions For Denmark’s Soft Unemployment Cure
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS âFinding qualified personnel has become more difficult. The unemployment rate in Denmark is low: 4.2% is three times nothing!â says Brian Winther Almind, taking the...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs, The Singular New York-To-Washington Path To Power
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View ArticleIn War-Torn Donbass, Ukrainians Of Polish Origin Beg Warsaw For Help
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA 60 Ukrainians of Polish descent ask to be evacuated from Donbass to Poland. The Ministry of Poland says it can only give allowance aid. More then 60 Ukrainians of...
View ArticleTrump, A "Pragmatist" In Russian Eyes
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT The President-elect of the USA has not yet had time to delve into foreign policy subjects and specify which of his promises will be fulfilled. Donald Trumpâs first...
View ArticleAfter Aleppo Inferno, Idlib To Become "Purgatory"
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY BEIRUT â In the final hours of the siege in Aleppo, as the Syrian military and allied militias closed in on Tuesday, the people who had once dreamed of a free...
View ArticleSpotlight: In Africa, Elections Reveal Democrats And Despots
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View ArticleChina, A Global Superpower? Not So Fast
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER Those Chinese who have had the experience of traveling to other countries have all probably noticed the differences at home and abroad. In the US and Europe, they...
View ArticleThe Social And Political Struggles Transforming Mexico
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd-  MEXICO CITY â "Little civil wars" are proliferating in Mexico, with potentially destructive effects. Yet the simmering cauldron fomenting these...
View ArticleDoes Santa Exist? A Case For Telling Kids The Truth — And Keeping The Lie
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS The ritual is immutable. For 60 years, each month of December, La Poste has mobilized five employees to respond to 18,700 enamored letters from children addressed to Santa...
View ArticleA Simple Political Lesson From One Small Town In Italy
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA Franco Metta, the mayor Cerignola, a small town in the southern Italian region of Puglia, recently received a special box of cookies as a Christmas gift. When he opened the...
View ArticleSpotlight: Trump’s Final Hurdle
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH In a normal election cycle, the meeting of the U.S. Electoral College goes virtually unnoticed. The 2016Â race to the White House, however, has been anything but normal....
View ArticleAleppo, A Historic City Of Peace And Commerce Turns To Dust
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO Before it became the Syrian rebellion stronghold, this strategic town was a crossroads of civilizations and a very prosperous trade power. Aleppo is one of the world's...
View ArticleAnkara Is Not Sarajevo, Bad Analogies Of Russian Envoy Assassination
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View ArticleSpotlight: El Salvador, A Christmas Plea For Peace
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Make it stop! Thatâs the message delivered this week by an organization of Protestant churches in El Salvador, Central Americaâs smallest but deadliest country. The...
View ArticleChild Thieves For Hire In China
Worldcrunch.com / SINA NEWS Recently in Dao County in Hunan province in China, it has become common practice for parents to rent out their children to work as thieves. One case in particular has been...
View ArticleBrains And Beauty, Can Neuroscience Measure How Art Affects Us?
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS Walls disappearing under the paintings of masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, an organ with a Bach score on it, sculpturesâ¦It is only when you see Jean-Pierre...
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