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Elections, A Favorite Prop For Strongmen
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — Why would Egypt waste tens of millions of pounds on posters and banners for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, when his rivals were muzzled and no credible candidate...
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May 1968, Month One Of The Sexual Revolution?
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — During the May 1968 student uprising in Paris, one of the movement's top leaders Daniel Cohn-Bendit raised the question of the “sexual problems of the youth” in a...
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Opioids And Unemployment: America's Real Recipe For Despair
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- There's something rotten in Trump's United States of America. No, I'm not talking about corruption cases, conflicts of interest or Russian inference, but rather the...
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UK Business Hates Brexit, But Opposes Second Referendum
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS LONDON — The plot to reverse Brexit is missing a key ally: U.K. business. Companies have been among the most outspoken critics of the split from the European Union,...
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Boston To Hamburg, Finding The Romance In Our Tinder Age
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Essay- PARIS — This is not news, but dating today is a completely different animal than it was even five years ago, as new apps keep arriving to create “matches” between...
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Latin America's Misplaced Obsession In Measuring "Happiness"
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA BOGOTÁ — Reports on "happiness" in Latin American countries are increasingly frequent, published so often by now that they've lost any novelty value. More to the...
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Not Just Starbucks, Why White America Calls The Cops On Black People
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- WASHINGTON — It’s good that Starbucks, with its announcement this week that it will close thousands of stores for a day of “racial bias training” in May,...
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A Flag And Signs Of Separatism In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — In the uproar over the southwestern state of Karnataka's decision to have a separate flag for the state, New Delhi-based television channels warned that the move...
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Watch: OneShot — Sadr City Bus Stop
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — Sadr City bus stop, 2008 (©Andrea Bruce/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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Ortega As Maduro? Nicaraguan Unrest Mirrors Venezuela
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Editorial- Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega is facing major turmoil and rioting across the country, with at least 25 left dead, some 70 injured and many more...
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Brace Yourself For The Digital Counter-Revolution
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — The revelations of data harvesting. The first fatal accident involving one of Uber's self-driving cars. European taxation of digital giants. Resistance...
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Why Global Shipping Industry Must Climb Aboard Paris Climate Pact
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — The boom in renewable energy is creating economic opportunities for countries across the world — now, it must also be extended to our oceans....
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Religious Romania
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Romania is one of the richest countries I've set foot in when it comes to religious heritage. The central European state has history-packed cathedrals, exuberantly...
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India's Plague Of Systematic Rape Has Not Abated
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — January 2018 will be etched in the history of our country – we will remember it like we do December 2012, to remember the eight-year-old Bakarwal girl like we do...
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Behold Tomorrow! Meet The Professional Futurists
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — One day last October, during the morning talk show on Swiss state broadcaster RTS, still groggy viewers were brutally awakened by a sentence dropped live on-air:...
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President AMLO? Leftist Populism Smells Triumph In Mexico
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY - Mexico's general election, set for July 1, is becoming clearer every day. The fight is between two very different perspectives on life and...
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After Sargsyan Resignation, What Next For Armenia-Russia Relations?
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT MOSCOW — Following a series of demonstrations against the political class that began across Armenia on April 13, the country's prime minister Serzh Sargsyan has resigned....
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Letter From Damascus: How Geopolitics Unfolds In My Backyard
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY DAMASCUS – I have lived in the Syrian capital of Damascus since the beginning of the Syrian conflict. I haven’t left Syria for more than a week, and even then it was...
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China's BAT Tech Giants Giving GAFA Run For Their Money
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — At a time when the Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon — the GAFA — are starting to hear it from customers over their quasi-totalitarian practices,...
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Kisses For Macron. Cold Shoulder For Merkel?
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -Analysis- WASHINGTON — The contrast couldn't be greater. Washington has been celebrating French President Emmanuel Macron's state visit — the first of its kind in the Trump...
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