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Cliffside Drama
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH In my 60+ years of driving, I was never involved in any kind of serious accident — barely a flat tire. Not everyone is so lucky. This was the scene a day after a bad turn...
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Poland, In Denial Of Nazi Ghosts And New Russian Threats
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — A people brings glory upon itself up when it is able to confront the complexity of its history. On the contrary, it dishonors itself when it takes on a...
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Meet The Former Vegetarian Who Slaughters Cows Humanely
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS ZURICH — They are small but stocky oxen, hornless with red or black coats and a friendly air. This Scottish cattle breed is known as Aberdeen Angus. Once a month, at dawn,...
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China And The Vatican, Intrigue At The Heart Of Power
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER The old, retired cardinal has had enough. He does not like what the Vatican is doing in China. He takes a plane and asks to be received by the pope. But instead of bringing it...
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Älmhult Postcard: Ikea Model Lives On After Founder's Death
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO ÄLMHULT — After a three-and-a-half hour journey through an endless forest of birch and pine trees pierced by frozen lakes, the train from Stockholm stops at Älmhult....
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Pablo Escobar's Hungry Hippos, Still Wreaking Havoc
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Asian long-horned beetles in North America. Tropical parakeets in the capital cities of Europe. The plague of frogs Bart accidentally unleashed that time the Simpsons...
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After Deneuve, #Metoo Backlash: Is French Feminism Unique?
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — It is an idea one detects amid heated debates after the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal, between the lines written by the #MeToo movement, and perhaps in the back of...
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PyeongChang And The Slippery Sport Of Olympic Geopolitics
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games finally kicked off Thursday with the riveting-if-baffling sport of curling and a first victory for hosts South Korea. But...
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Penguins Beware: China's Super-Rich Flock To Antarctica
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH For China's expanding class of super-rich, the search is always on for the most exclusive family travel destination for the Chinese New Year. This year has sparked a rush...
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Dictators And Us, The West Falls Back Into Appeasement Trap
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -OpEd- TURIN — Fifty years ago, in January 1968, the reformist leader Alexander Dubcek rose to power in Czechoslovakia. His ascent began a brief era known as the Prague...
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Modern Mausoleum Wonder
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The remains of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus can be found in present-day in the southwest Turkish city of Bodrum. It was once one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient...
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Zohr Ambitions: Can Egyptian Gas Help Europe Bypass Russia?
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Production at the Zohr gas field was officially inaugurated by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on the last day of January, a little over a month after...
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Washington Nuclear Strategy, Russia Is Still The Real Threat
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- WASHINGTON — There has long been an idealistic, even utopian, streak in American society that has held that the abnegation of power by the United States...
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Panda Mania, What Our Love Affair Says About The Human Race
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — At the Beauval Zoo in central France, visitors line up every day for a chance to glimpse at His Majesty Yuan Meng. The animal's birth, on Aug. 4, 2017, was...
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Inside France's Secret War Against Jihadists Of Mali
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO BANDIAGARA — The Twin Otter plane flies full speed over the battlefield, though low enough to almost scrape the tops of acacia trees. At one point its wingtips seem...
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Watch: OneShot — Fairest Of Them All
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Fairest of them all, 1996 (©Stanley Greene/NOOR) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow...
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Barranquilla Carnival, Gay Parade Steps Out Of Shadows
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BARRANQUILLA — In this carnival city on the Carribbean coast, police are clearing the way for Diana Ardila Kopp, a tattooed, 34-year-old transgender woman, and this...
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A Syrian Doctor's Bid To Build A Bomb-Proof Hospital For Women And Girls
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY For a few days in October, a tiny, starving baby became the face of the war in Syria. Images of one-month-old Sahhar Dofdaa, from Syria's opposition-held Eastern Ghouta,...
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The Eros And Ethics Of Sex Robots
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT BERLIN — She gently slides her hands along the metal bar. The guests are hypnotized by her beautiful breasts. Her hips move to the rhythm of the music, with perfect...
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Egyptian President Sisi, A Strongman's Path To Uncontested Reelection
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — “Angry” was the way many described President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s improvised speech during the inauguration ceremony of the Zohr natural gas field on January 31....
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