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Who Stands To Gain If Turkey Restores Death Penalty
Worldcrunch.com / CUMHURIYET ISTANBUL — Right-wing Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and his cabinet members Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and Hasan Polatkan were executed after the military coup of May 27, 1960....
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Watch: OneShot — UNICEF: Back To School, Bravo Teachers
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Holidays are over, and it's back to school. Frightening or fun, this week marks the beginning of a new adventure for millions of children around the world who will be given a...
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Hong Kong, Kashmir And The Illusion Of Freedom In India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Analysis- Addressing the National Urban Development Summit in Gurgaon recently, India's minister of state Rao Inderjit Singh lamented that China has been able to grow...
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Same Old Faces: Rebel FARC Faction Has A Youth Problem
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTÁ — Colombians should not lose their cool viewing the video released on August 29. The clip shows FARC guerrilla captain and former legislator Iván...
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Take 5: Overtourism Pushback From Venice To Machu Picchu To Maya Bay
Worldcrunch.com / TAKE 5 With many in the Northern Hemisphere now making their way back to the office, it's time to share stories and rankings of our respective summer vacations. One question that...
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Female Condoms: A Way For African Women To Take Power
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE CAPE TOWN — Just out of her car, Nomaxhosa Pendu gathers a small group of women in a street in the township of Mfuleni, a suburb of Cape Town. "You've all heard about the...
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The Pain Of Passing Holidays — And Years: Letter From A Cairo Prison
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR CAIRO — "Take care and hopefully see you soon. :)" I end the short letter to my family with a few requests for items to bring on their next visit, then hand it to one of my...
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Digitalization Won't Kill The Banker!
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- In the era of digital technology and uberization, while artificial intelligence and algorithms arouse fears and fantasies and neobanks flourish, the banking...
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Why Europe Is So Ill-Prepared For The Next Great Recession
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Analysis- NEW YORK CITY — In 2008, when the most serious financial crisis in 80 years gripped the Western world, politicians and central banks were taken by...
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Why Colombia's Peace Process Was Destined To Self-Destruct
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — The only really surprising thing about the video of terrorist Iván Márquez announcing that the FARC — or Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, as...
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The Many Misconceptions About 'Liberalism'
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- QUITO — I see a growing, and disconcerting tendency to disparage "democracy" among people who declare themselves to be liberals, presumably followers of the...
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How World War II Helped Shape Modern India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — The 80th anniversary of the start of World War II fell on September 1. And next year we will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the War. Both are occasions...
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Out Of Office: The Stress And Serenity Of Teleworking
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — "Honestly, it looks a bit sketchy when your automated email response says ‘absent'…". For this young manager of a major consumer goods corporation, teleworking...
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On Erdogan's Ambitions: A Short History Of Nuclear Weapons In Turkey
Worldcrunch.com / HURRIYET ISTANBUL — One of the more prestigious duties for the pilots of the Turkish Air Forces during the Cold War years was the "nuclear watch." The four main air bases in Turkey...
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Ecofascism: When Far-Right Ideology Fuses With Ecology
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — Patrick Crusius, who killed 20 people in El Paso, Texas last month, and Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 in Christchurch, New Zealand in March, both justified their...
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The Case For Legalizing Colombian Cocaine Production
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ — I was surprised, speaking some weeks ago with a police chief in the coca-growing region of Nariño, in southern Colombia. We were standing outside a...
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When A Subterranean Theater Emerges In Beirut
Worldcrunch.com / MADA MASR BEIRUT — Located in the heart of Beirut's vibrant Hamra Street, an area that served as a hub for intellectuals in the 1960s and 1970s, Metro al-Madina is an independent...
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World On Fire: The Amazon Is Only Part Of The Problem
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — Millions of Notre Dames have burned to the ground due to a sovereign state's appalling inability to contain the destructive imagination of a ruthless...
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Music Soothes The Sulawesi
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH This concert, courtesy of the Toraja people, provided a welcome balance to our day: My wife and I had just witnessed a traditional burial, in this village of southern...
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Modi Putting India's Future At Risk With Kashmir Gambit
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Analysis- DELHI — Had the Chandrayaan-2 Moon lander not failed, it would have been our media-hungry prime minister and not Minister Prakash Javadekar who would have...
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