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Why Digital Abstinence Won't Fix Facebook
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -OpEd- MUNICH — In the aftermath of the Facebook data scandal, some users have been deleting their accounts. It's an understandable gut reaction, but it's also a...
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Watch: OneShot — Witnessing Westminster Aftermath
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Witnessing the immediate aftermath, 2017 (©Toby Melville/Reuters) This photo was taken just after a terrorist drove into pedestrians on the Westminster Bridge,...
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Between Healthy Fries And Guilt-Free #FatSwissGirls
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The Western world isn’t short of public enemies right now. There are, of course, the usual suspects: Putin, Assad, even Mark Zuckerberg seems to have joined...
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Watch: OneShot — Saving Mosul
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — The Battle for Mosul, 2017 (©Ivor Prickett) An unidentified young boy who had survived the siege of last ISIS-controlled area in the Old City of Mosul is cared for...
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Misunderstanding Mexico's So-Called Idle Youth
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — When sociological studies go into details, it sometimes reveals the unexpected presence of pockets of people living in intolerable...
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Light My Pyre
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH My trip to Nepal was definitely one of the most dépaysants, as we say here in France. This open-air cremation in front of Kathmandu's famous Pashupatinath Temple was...
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A Delicate Anti-Terror Strategy For Egypt's Coptic Churches
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR WARRAQ — Police personnel stand behind riot shields with machine guns slung over their shoulders at the entrance to a narrow street connecting the corniche to the Church of...
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Here We Go Again: Iraq To Syria, Chemical Weapons And Collective Amnesia
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS -OpEd- Tensions are reaching a bursting point over Syria! Just as Saddam Hussein's (hypothetical) possession of weapons of mass destruction led U.S. President George W. Bush...
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Trade Wars II: Now Trump Is Attacking Germany Where It Hurts
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT BERLIN — Donald Trump's protectionist push is prompting a trade war with the entire world — Germany included, as his announcement last month about steel and aluminum tariffs...
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World Press Photo Of The Year: Watch The Story Behind The Winner
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT AFP photographer Ronaldo Schemidt has won the prestigious 2018 World Press Photo of the Year Award. Check out our special OneShot video of his winning photograph: 2018 World...
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Tea Or Coffee? China Produces (and Drinks) Both
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PU'ER — His basket slung over his shoulder, Fu Xiufang plunges his hands into the branches. Beneath the leaves of shrubs planted on mountainsides in the middle of the...
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Live From The Blue Ridge Mountains, Where Facebook Stores Its Data
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST FOREST CITY — It was slow at the thrift shop, and manager Stephanie Henderson, 38, was looking at her laptop, trying to discover all that Facebook had collected...
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Watch: The Story Behind Iconic Holocaust Photo Of Warsaw Child
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Jewish boy surrenders, 1943 (Anonymous Nazi photographer) The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi occupation started in April 1943. Jürgen Stroop was sent by...
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Syria And The Troubling Parallels With 1914
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Some strategic games are too complex to be readily modeled, and when we see such games in the real world that’s exactly when we should be the most worried. That’s my...
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It's Time To Stop Demonizing Big Data
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — Recent actions taken in response to the leaking of Facebook data offer a good opportunity to shed a bit of light on the development of new — and often...
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How Western Strikes Against Syrian Regime Look To Syrian People
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY DAMASCUS — Afaf Mohammed lives near the Scientific Research Center in the Damascus suburb of Barzeh – a facility that was targeted by missiles on early Saturday as part...
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In Latin America, Politics Of Fear Makes A Comeback
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Essay- BOGOTÁ — While working at the Crisis magazine in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, the writer Eduardo Galeano received a phone call from someone in the Argentine...
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Sicilian Smiles
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Our trip to Sicily came just as legendary Italian magistrate Giovanni Falcone was launching the widest-ranging anti-Mafia probe ever. This light-hearted moment in Palermo...
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Syria, Victim Of Western Errors Of The Recent Past
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — When it comes to interventions, military as well as humanitarian, things work in cycles. The massacres in the African Great Lakes region in 1994 played a...
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After Raúl: What A Post-Castro Cuba Could Look Like
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR It is not every day the leadership changes in Cuba. It has happened once since the 1959 revolution that brought in communism — and that was when President Raúl Castro...
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