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From Trump's Muslim Travel Bans To Muzbnb
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH When a freshly inaugurated Donald Trump issued his infamous travel ban exactly one year ago, the message was clear, not only to Muslims but to the entire world, that the...
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In Baghdad's Sadr City, Where Women Practice Weightlifting
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO BAGHDAD — Her hands, covered in magnesium carbonate for a better grip, are white. Her face is flush. Her gaze fixed. Huda Salem, 20, exhales loudly — twice — into the...
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Tintin And The Red Lanterns
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Show this picture of red lanterns in the gardens of Suzhou to any Tintin reader, and there's a good chance it'll remind them of the cover of The Blue Lotus.
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Fiji Flooded, Island Exodus In The Era Of Climate Change
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG SUVA — Mary Meita is on the first floor of a white building in Suva, the capital of Fiji. The 33-year-old looks through the barred window. Rain falls on the...
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Russia And Europe, Putin's Ambitions Have Roots In History
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -Analysis- MOSCOW — Russia, whether represented by the Kremlin walls or military barracks, has a long history behind her — much longer than America’s. When the future U.S....
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Eddie Adams' Iconic Saigon Shot, 50 Years Later (Video)
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Even in a pre-internet era, the impact was almost immediate. Eddie Adams’ Feb. 1, 1968 photograph of Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a North Vietnamese prisoner hit the...
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Crying Roger, Federer Serves Feminine Side For Men's Tennis
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS LAUSANNE — His tears made the whole word cry, and won't be forgotten anytime soon. After Roger Federer won his record 20th Grand Slam tournament Sunday, in Melbourne, the...
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Time To Downsize Hypermarkets? A Reboot For Argentine Retail
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Facing low-growth forecasts in 2018, on top of years of declining sales, Argentinian supermarkets and hypermarkets are seeking new ways of enticing customers...
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How The Trump Era Accelerates The Culture War, From Both Sides
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- It's now more than a year since Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, and the media's animosity towards him continues unabated....
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On "Love Jihad," When India's Patriarchy Mixes With Bad Faith
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE There is a part of an old Kannada song that has remained with me throughout my life, the words of which go something like this, “keliddu sullagabahudu, nodiddu...
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Can You Dig It? New Urban Experiments In Underground Architecture
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS MARSEILLES — A half-century after the upheaval of May 1968, France's City of Light may be on the verge of another revolution, albeit of an architectural sort. No barricades...
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Anba Makarios, Coptic Bishop's Tough Line On Egypt's Islamist Violence
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR MINYA — Anba Makarios, a bishop in the governorate with Egypt's highest number of violent sectarian incidents, does not employ the usual appeasing rhetoric of Egypt’s...
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The Grandfather Of Selfies
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH My wife and I were ahead of the times with this selfie from the early 90s in the Butchart Gardens near Vancouver.
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Farewell To Nicanor Parra, Latin America's Great Anti-Poet
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — Chilean "anti-poet" Nicanor Parra was one of Latin America's preeminent writers of the past century, destined to be remembered for creating a genre of poetry...
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The Paradox Of The Hyper-Connected Traveler
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS LAUSANNE — Margaux and her partner, Séverine, have spent more than a year traveling in a van from the United States to Patagonia. It makes sense then that they've come...
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When Billionaires Turn To Nonprofits
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS NEW YORK — Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are publicly traded, profit-oriented corporations. So it is interesting that when they...
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In China's Crackdown On Religions, Buddhism Gets A Pass
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO ZHENGDING — Dozens of Chinese tourists eat their picnics in the shadow of the majestic Linji Temple pagoda, the birthplace of one of the most famous branches of Buddhism....
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A Half-Million And Counting: Venezuelans Pour Into Colombia
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTA — As the new year gets underway, Colombia is struggling as never before to cope with the rush of Venezuelans who have entered the country in recent...
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Erdogan Speaks: We Demand Full EU Membership, Nothing Less
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ISTANBUL — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a historic visit to Rome on Monday, the first time a Turkish leader has met the Pope at the Vatican in nearly six...
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Japan, When The Signs Of Decline Are Not About Economics
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER -Essay- TOKYO — It's been my habit, over the past 25 years or so, to pass the New Year in Beijing, and so it was that I found myself there once again this year. As...
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