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Berlusconi Lessons Two Months Into The Trump Era
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER WASHINGTON — On February 1992 Italian prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro arrested Mario Chiesa, a member of the Italian Socialist Party, for accepting a bribe from a Milan cleaning...
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Alternative Path To Middle East Peace? Israel Should Join EU
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — The two-state-solution is not, as most of us would think, a new idea. It is 80 years old, to be precise. It is based on the idea of a British commission and...
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A President’s Downfall, Nepotism And A Ghost Town In Sri Lanka
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS HAMBANTOTA — This city in southern Sri Lanka has a port, a cricket stadium, and an airport. But with only about 11,000 residents, Hambantota feels like a ghost town. There...
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Hawaii To Holland, Populism Bumps In The Road
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH The headlines this morning provide two bits of far-flung hope for those still shaken by Brexit and Donald Trump: the new version of Trump's travel ban applied to six...
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Aging Taiwan And The Doubts Of A Faraway Daughter
Worldcrunch.com / RUE AMELOT PARIS — Last month, I made my annual trip back to Taiwan around the Chinese New Year to see my parents. My mother, who is 86, has not being doing too badly even though she...
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Garden Of Mormon Eden
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Taking a break from visiting Salt Lake City's landmarks (including the Salt Lake Temple you can see in the background of this picture), we enjoyed a nice walk in the lush...
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Want To Get Rid Of Toxic Politicians? Ignore Them
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ - We often confuse a phenomenon with its causes. We’re in the 21st century but we still believe that the problems we face are due to political...
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Want To Teach In This Congolese City? Better Get Baptized
Worldcrunch.com / SYFIA INTERNATIONAL BENI — During a recent morning mass at a church in this northeast Congolese city, the pastor had a sort of job announcement for his congregants: The local school...
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Merkel, Martial Arts And Trump
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The German press coverage of Chancellor Angela Merkel's first meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday is occasion for all kinds of...
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Italian Magazine: Behind Bars Of Trump Presidency
Worldcrunch.com / IL SOLE 24 ORE Il Sole 24 ORE magazine, March 17, 2017 — Photo: Charles Ommanney "The Closing Of The American Mind," reads the April cover of Il Sole 24 ORE's monthly magazine IL....
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Generation Porn, How The Internet Shapes Youth Sexuality
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Fear is Daniel’s constant companion. The fear of relapse, of falling back into his old addictive habits is not unjustified because it would be all too...
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Trump v. Trump, How His Words Undermine His Agenda
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — In blocking the administration's second attempt at a travel ban from terror-prone countries, a federal judge in Hawaii laid the blame squarely on...
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Online Resistance In Turkey
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO ISTANBUL — The smartphone's video camera zigzags through the crowd. Amid a joyful brouhaha punctuated by applause, the young videomaker captures the first smiles and the...
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Wake Up Brazil! They’re Killing The Amazon Rainforest Again
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -OpEd- SÃO PAULO — Any Catholic who has attended mass since Ash Wednesday will have noticed that the Church in Brazil is very concerned about the country's...
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A Global Competition For Influence In Ethiopia
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ADDIS ABABA — On the flight from Rome to Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, flight attendants hand out Chinese-language magazines. And in the city's Bole International...
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Gilded Guardian
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Behold this mighty Kinnari statue, half-human and half-bird, keeping an eye on Bangkok's holy Wat Phra Kaew temple. See more slides from My Grand-Père's World here.
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Happiness Ranking: From Oslo To Addis Ababa And Beijing
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH It's official: Norway has toppled Denmark to become the world's happiest country in 2017. Or, to put in local linguistic terms, the world's lykkeligste country. This...
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Seeing Warhol In Tehran? The Saga Of Iran's Modern Art Museum
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — It may be the best modern art collection you've never heard of. Inaugurated in 1977, the same year as Paris' Pompidou Center, the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art...
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Solar And Hydrogen Fuel State-Of-The-Art Electric Ship
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS LAUSANNE — A Swiss-based charity, Race For Water Foundation, wants to turn the PlanetSolar catamaran into a floating display of emerging hydrogen technologies. "That's...
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North Korean Clan Intrigue: Who Is Kim Jong-un's Ambitious Half-Sister?
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO SEOUL — One family secret can hide another. A few drops of poison spilled in an airport terminal has shed some light on the fratricidal struggles that stir Pyongyang's...
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