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ISIS In Philippines, City Decimated By Five-Month Siege
Worldcrunch.com / KBR ILIGAN — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared the liberation of the southern city of Marawi last week, bringing an end to a five-month deadly siege by the Islamic State...
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The Latest Anti-Immigrant Party On The Rise ... In Lebanon
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH ZOUK MOSBEH — Dozens of supporters turned out recently in this coastal town north of Beirut to inaugurate a new political party, the Lebanese Party of Hope, which...
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García Márquez, A Writer's Lifelong Obsession With Medicine
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTA — Death may be the most obvious recurring theme in the works of Gabriel García Márquez, who died three years ago at the age of 87. But the famed Colombian...
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Succession Doubts, From Thailand To China
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Some shoes are just too big to fill. Take the ones left behind by Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died just over a year ago at 88, and whose five-day...
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Syrian Tea Time
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH If you wanted to take a break from wandering the streets of Aleppo, in a then peaceful Syria, you could buy tea from this colorful vendor about to set up shop.
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Quantum Computers, Is Google Set To Cross A New Threshold?
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Any day now, Google is expected to achieve quantum supremacy—the use of a quantum computer to solve a problem that even the most advanced supercomputer can’t unravel....
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The Arab Spring Didn't Change My Life, A New Tunisian Exodus To Italy
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA SFAX — Plastic bags litter the fields that separate the highway from the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisian fishermen sail their boats in the Gulf of Gabes, between the cities of...
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Global Warming Pushes Champagne Vines Into England
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PETERSFIELD — Earlier this fall, yellow leaves dotted the green pastures beneath a grey sky with the occasional blue hole that let sunlight filter through. At the corner of...
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Tiananmen To Apple Stores, Who Owns Our Modern Spaces?
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER Apple has opened the doors of its new 175-acre campus, built in the shape of a gigantic UFO, where 12,000 employees will be working. It will cost Apple $5 billion – five times...
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Are We Ready For The Japanization Of The World Economy?
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- TOKYO — Shinzo Abe has once and for all earned his stripes as a great tactician. For the third time in five years, he triggered early elections to reinforce his...
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Power And Language, Where Weinstein Meets French Grammar
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — Le masculin l’emporte. In the French language, this is the idea that “the masculine form takes precedence” over the feminine form when matching an adjective or...
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The Hard Labor Of North Korean Workers In China
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE DANDONG — In their pink and blue joseon-ots (traditional clothes), the North Korean waitresses of the New Sun Island Restaurant in Dandong, the large Chinese border city...
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Mueller Probe, A True Test For American Democracy
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- WASHINGTON - The hardest part for official Washington, D.C., is not knowing what happens next. Amid the fast-moving criminal investigation into Russian...
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Juan Valdez 2.0? Innovations In Colombia's Coffee Industry
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTA — What can be done with coffee shrubs once their productive cycle ends? Is there an alternative to just letting them rot away? Could this raw material instead...
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Mueller, Madrid, Moscow: That Eternal Judiciary-Executive Collision
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH “Trump is finished.” That sentence has been pronounced so often over the past 18 months that it has lost any real meaning. Still, the events unfolding in Washington right...
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Truck Attack in NYC, 16 Front Pages From Newspapers Around The World
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST A day after a suspected 29-year-old Uzbek national killed eight people and injured a dozen more with a rented pickup truck in Manhattan, newspapers around the...
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Is Russia Also Headed For A Reality TV Presidential Campaign?
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS MOSCOW — The drab presidential campaign in Russia has taken an unexpected and dramatic turn with the announced candidacy of a former reality TV star and daughter of an old...
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The Disappeared Of Syria, Missing From Peace Talks Too
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY After being tortured in a Syrian detention center, journalist and human rights activist Mazen Darwish was left for dead. "When I opened my eyes, I found myself lying...
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Venice For Sale? Historic Buildings Flipped Into Airbnbs
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA VENICE — Everyone seems to agree on city plans to sell some of Venice’s historic palaces to private investors: the local government, the post office, the Italian army —...
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Facebook And Russian Meddling, Don't Blame The Messenger
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS -OpEd- NEW YORK — Facebook Inc. takes its place as the new political whipping boy in congressional hearings this week, revealing that at least 126 million Americans...
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