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Europol Writes Postcards To "Most-Wanted" Fugitives
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Europol is adding a whiff of summer holiday fun to its hunt for hardened criminals. On its website, Europol (the Europe Union's police agency) has issued 21 original...
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Cairo's Islanders Denied The Nile They Call Home
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Just north of the Egyptian capital, a short ferryboat ride will take you to the southern tip of the Nile island of Warraq. It has patches of agricultural land and...
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Trump's New Policies Are A Hit (They Are Obama's)
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump appears to have found himself a new national security adviser. His name is Barack Obama. Recent days have brought...
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The Good Wall, An Ingenious Conservation Idea From A Bogota Garage
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — The Alba Torres family has already gotten top global recognition for one bright and simple idea to help support water conservation. But their work continues,...
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The Fall Of Netanyahu And The Rise Of "Israel's Macron"
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is having a bad week. First, the news last Thursday that the Israeli police is investigating Netanyahu for suspected...
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Picture Please?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH I don't often photograph people. I prefer to take pictures of places, mostly to remember where I went. But I did click photos of these two Catholic women on the Italian...
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Bumps In The Road: Don't Bet On Uber Crashing
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK — For six months now, almost all the news about Uber has been bad. Even before then, the ride-hailing company's combative executive team displayed a...
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On Raqqa Frontline: Kurds, Arabs, Italians Close In On ISIS
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA RAQQA — Commander Jihad Khabad, a tough and slender man with a well-kept beard, is holding a radio in his left hand and scanning a tablet with a map of the old city center...
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Collection Of DNA Spells Doom In India
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- In 2007, the department of biotechnology in India began drafting a controversial legislative bill to collect and store the DNA information of Indian citizens...
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WiFi-Free In Old Havana, A Perfect Post-Modern Getaway
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Essay- HAVANA — It is a June night in Old Havana, with a waning moon and temperatures a steamy 29 °C. A few meters from Obispo, a shopping street, two Japanese tourists are...
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War Game, Nightmare Scenarios Of A U.S.-North Korea Conflict
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A military confrontation with North Korea may now be “inevitable,” says Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) The United States is “done...
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Tom Of Finland, Double Life Of The Gay Icon Who Changed A Nation
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE TURKU — For him, he was just Uncle Touko. Tapani Vinkama recalls the vacations he spent in Helsinki with a man who so many foreigners keep asking about. Now 72, Vinkama...
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One Young Woman's Fight For Surgery Access For 143 Million
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — "To be above it all" has become Magdalena Gründl’s purpose in life. By this, she doesn't mean to sound egotistical. The-25 year-old research assistant...
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On Coups And Croissants, Why The News Is All About Me
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT What kind of a world do we live in, when Turkey can't even give us a proper coup anymore? Unable to sleep for the summer heat in Valencia, I remember that twisted thought...
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In Rio's Favelas, Schools Caught In Crossfire
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO RIO DE JANEIRO — "Stray bullets invading Rio's schools." "Under threat, schools are closing." "Students injured in shooting." These were titles of articles...
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Trump Or Trudeau, Deconstructing A False Choice
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST OTTAWA — One has brown hair, the other orange. One is effortlessly bilingual, the other horrifies editors of the Oxford English Dictionary. One openly calls...
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Philippines To Indonesia, Wahhabism Is Spreading In Asia
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- PARIS — The Islamic State (ISIS) is like the Hydra, the multi-headed monster of mythology that Hercules alone was able to slay. Whenever he managed to cut off...
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China's Flexibility To IMF Rules, Different Meanings Of Debt
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — What if the very different Chinese approach on debt held the key to a solution for the crisis of public finances in the West. In Europe and North America, the...
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What Happens To Malls After Retail Shuts Shop?
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS DETROIT — Outside Detroit, plans have been in the works for two years to transform the outdated Lakeside Mall into an open-air center with green space and a waterway....
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Letter To The Pope: Why You Shouldn't Visit Colombia
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Father Jorge, dear Pope Francis, less than a month remains before your visit to Colombia. Before Sept. 6, you still have time to make your excuses and...
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