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Why Won't France Call An Anti-Semitic Murder By Its Name?
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -OpEd- PARIS — It's taken years for acts of violence carried out against French Jews to be recognized not as ordinary crime, but as the violent expression of a new form of...
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Japan's Unlikely Love Affair With "One Hundred Years Of Solitude"
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — For any self-respecting Japanese drinker, One Hundred Years of Solitude is the name of an exclusive and costly malt liquor made to a century-long recipe. Call...
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Golan: Where Druze, Settlers And Tourists Cross Paths
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS TEL AVIV — Hana and Shimon Davidovitch had been waiting for this for a long time. For their silver wedding anniversary, the couple's two children sent them on a weekend to...
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Estonia, Leading The EU Into The E-Future
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH With Britain missing its turn for the European Union presidency in light of Brexit, the rotating six-month duty has fallen into Estonia’s lap earlier than planned. Until...
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France Takes Fidget Spinning To Peak Level
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Hand Spinner Mag, July 2017 PARIS — Fidget spinners — or as they're called here, "hand spinners" — have made it to France. Originally created for medical purposes, to...
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Torn Families And Tactical Silences In Ukraine
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT MARIUPOL — It is virtually impossible to hide from war once it has begun. It spreads through a city like a dark plume of smoke, which inevitably will envelope all in its...
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No More Marshall Plans, Africa Needs A New Development Model
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — Why didn’t the $1 trillion of aid destined for public development over the past 50 years improve the quality of life for most Africans? This was the question at the...
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India, Israel And Iran: Three's A Crowd?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH For the first time since India established diplomatic relations with Israel in 1992, an Indian prime minister traveled to Israel. Narendra Modi’s historic three-day visit...
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Norway, No Flash Required
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The nice thing about northern Norway in the summer, is that the sun almost never sets. For a photographer, this means excellent lighting throughout the day (and night)....
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Crowdfunding As A Financial Gateway For Refugees
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY ALEY — Mohammad left his home on the outskirts of Damascus in 2013, gripped with a mix of guilt and anxiety. Though he was fleeing violence that is still ongoing in his...
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From China To Sweden, Volvo's Electric Car Challenge To Tesla
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Finally some serious competition for Tesla. Just days after Elon Musk said his American multi-billion dollar electric automobile startup would start producing its Model...
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Argentina's Famous Meat Industry Grills President Over "Vegan Mondays"
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH BUENOS AIRES — Argentina is steak country. Meat-eating is a pillar of social life, not to mention an engine for the economy. So there was bound to be a major beef when...
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Trump And Russia, It's Even More Complicated Now
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WARSAW — President Donald Trump promised voters that he would strike "a great deal" with Russia and its autocratic president, Vladimir Putin. He has repeatedly...
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Why Women Are Never Really Free To Ride The Subway
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — If you're a woman living in a city, this has probably happened to you. You're by yourself on a bus or a subway. Maybe you're wearing heels and a dress, or just...
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Museum-Worthy Art Planted In Vineyards In The South Of France
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE AIX-EN-PROVENCE — Here, the vineyard traces the pathways of art. It usually is the other way around, whereby a well-known vineyard expands its activities (rooms for rent, a...
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Welcome To The Jungle
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Not far from Belem, the gateway to the Amazon River, my wife and I (together with our fellow travelers from our organized tour of Brazil) stepped into the rainforest for...
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"Chinese Dream" Agit Prop Now Airing Before Every Movie In China
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH BEIJING — Dream or nightmare? Chinese moviegoers will now see for themselves. Starting July 1, the anniversary the Chinese Communist Party, and through its 19th national...
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How Big Data Is Revolutionizing The Soccer Transfer Market
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — A high stack of papers dominates the desk of this president of a Swiss soccer club. "These are resumes from players. We get 50 of them every week, together with...
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Hamburg, Vienna, Kuala Lumpur: Cities On The Line
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Hamburg is a sleepy place most days. When the G20 isn’t in town, the port city churns with the comings and goings of large, steel barges in its spacious...
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The G20, Trump And A World In Search Of A New Leader
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -Analysis- SAO PAULO — The G20, the club gathering the world's biggest economies, is the offspring of two crises. First, the 1997 Asian financial crisis led to the...
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