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What Latin America Can Learn From China About Smart Cities
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Slovakian Artist Ctrl Shift Face, King Of “Deepfakes"
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE "Don't believe everything you see on the Internet, okay?" Coming from Ctrl Shift Face, the remark isn't a warning, but a verbal slap in the face. It's a sarcastic poke at...
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Hate And Fear: Weapons Of Choice In Today's India
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE -Essay- I have been triggered into writing this short essay by three events. One is reading Mukul Kesavan's recent piece in the Telegraph saying that the terrifying thing...
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In Germany, Confronting Child Sex Abuse From The Past
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG BERLIN — A young boy's coach promises to give him special training to prepare for the national swimming championships. But when the boy changes into his swimming...
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The Foreign Policy Puzzle Facing Argentina's New President
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Human Trafficking Routes, From Asia To The Fields Of Italy
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ROME — The first to pierce the veil on the illegal Pakistani immigrants may have been the magistrates of Sassari, on the island of Sardinia, investigating another very...
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Trump Impeached — Front Pages From The U.S. And The World
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH President Donald Trump became the third president in American history to be impeached. In a vote almost exclusively along party lines, Democratic-controlled House of...
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Preserving Russian Values, Downplaying Domestic Violence
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH MOSCOW — In a recent letter to the European Court of Human Rights, the Russian Minister of Justice Aleksandr Konovalov declared that the level of domestic violence in the...
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Petra Peddlers From The Past
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The woman and the boy in the foreground were walking toward the members of my guided tour to try to sell knick-knacks. There were only two of them selling souvenirs in...
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Faith In Food: When Kosher And Halal Go Haute Cuisine
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — At first glance, Le Médaillon doesn't look like much. This French restaurant, with its menu derived from organic and halal products, sits across the street from a...
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Trump, "Terrorist" Cartels And The True Roots Of Mexico's Violence
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- MEXICO CITY — Gunfire didn't do the job, nor are the Mexican president's much-touted 'hugs' working. Facing the plague of criminal violence in Mexico, nobody...
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The 2019 Dozen — Our 12 Most Popular Stories Of The Year
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH LA STAMPA Meet The Doctor's Maid Who Inspired The Mediterranean Diet A housekeeper with serious culinary skills helped feed the mind and mouth of Ancel Keys, the American...
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Virtual Reality: Major Ethical Dilemmas, Real-Life Dangers
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — A dark alley. A voice: "It's him!" The sound of a club hitting my head. Everything goes black. Next I'm in a hospital room, connected to a machine that transfers my...
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How To Renovate Kyiv: Start By Replacing All Soviet-Era Slums
Worldcrunch.com / LIVY BEREG KYIV — Bed bugs are dining at "Khrushchyovkas," a cramped and grim low-cost apartment building named after the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union...
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Predictive Politics: When Algorithms Will Run Our Democracy
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Tech companies are obsessed with predicting human behavior. Auto-correct knows what word we're about to type and Amazon knows which book we'll buy next....
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CINQ Video: Tanya Habjouqa - Occupied Pleasures Photo Series
Worldcrunch.com / NOOR IMAGES When it was first published in 2013, Tanya Habjouqa's groundbreaking series "Occupied Pleasures" forced us to see one of the most photographed corners of the world in an...
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Where Is The Outrage In Latin America Over Cuba?
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -OpEd- BUENOS AIRES — While people in some Latin American countries are taking to the streets right now and voicing discontent with their respective governments, in Cuba, a...
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Tosca In The Time Of #MeToo
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA MILAN — The title should be "Scarpia," not Tosca, because he's the protagonist, in life and in death, of Giacomo Puccini's opera, which opens the season at Milan's La Scala...
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Staff Picks, Our 15 Best Stories Of 2019
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH LES ECHOS France's Yellow Vests And The Problem With Post-Truth Economics Opinion shapers have a habit these days of disregarding facts, be they scientific or economic....
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World War II Memorabilia To Call Home? German Bunkers For Sale
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT HAMBURG — Even now, more than 70 years after the conflict ended, many of Germany's World War II bunkers are still in active use as flats or museums, or by companies and...
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