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Dark Times For Press Freedom, It's True
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- PARIS — Someone, somewhere will probably call this fake news. Reporters Sans Frontières, a Paris-based organization for the protection of journalists and free...
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New Leader Of Le Pen’s Party Accused Of Gas Chamber Denial
Worldcrunch.com / LA CROIX PARIS — Far-right leader Marine Le Pen planned to spend the next two weeks trying to build her base, including more moderate voters, after clearing the first hurdle of the...
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In "Another" Washington, Folks (Mostly) Sticking With Trump
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- WASHINGTON (Indiana) — This city of 11,000, nestled among a handful of low hills rising from table-flat Hoosier farm fields, is 680 miles from the...
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Greenland, Victim Of Denmark's Linguistic Colonialism
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA COPENHAGEN — In the picturesque Danish capital, it's easy to overlook the men lying on public benches with a beer in hand, or assume they're immigrants from Southern...
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Macron v. Le Pen, A 200-Year-Old War Over Economic Philosophy
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — It so happens that the presidential election in France is taking place almost 200 years to the day after the first publication of On the Principles of Political...
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Four Years, 100 Days: The Hard Work Of Popes And Presidents
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Buenos Aires, 2013. At the ripe age of 76, Jorge Mario Bergoglio seems destined to wind down an illustrious career in the Catholic hierarchy as the widely...
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A Space Of Her Own: Pakistan’s Ladies Dhaba
Worldcrunch.com / KBR KARACHI — At Pakistan’s largest truck terminal in this city, drivers sip hot tea at a small roadside stall called a "dhaba" in between their shifts. The patrons share a common...
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Trump's Policy Toward Latin America Is Worse Than Just A Wall
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTÁ –– For some time now, Latin America has not figured on the U.S. State Department’s agenda. If the continent did appear, it was at the bottom of the...
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Up Close With Dr. Zee, The Godfather Of Legal Highs
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG AMSTERDAM — Very few people know Dr. Zee's real name. There's a reason for that. The "godfather of legal highs," as The Guardian newspaper once dubbed him, knows...
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The Invasion Of Symbolism, From Guernica To Invader
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- “This bull is a bull and this horse is a horse,” Spanish-born painter Pablo Picasso once said of his iconic 1937 painting Guernica. Eighty years later, the...
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Ode To Joy? Not Really. A Meditation On Europe
Worldcrunch.com / YONDER -OpEd- WASHINGTON — Late last summer, my wife and I took a ferry from Doolin, on the West coast of Ireland, to Inishmore, the smallest of the three Aran Islands. The tiny...
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Trump, Kim, Hamas, Putin: When Diplomacy Is Like A Crêpe
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- PARIS — Here in France, one learns that the first step to flipping a crêpe is to ensure the batter is cooked all the way through. Only then can you shake the...
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A Crazy Campaign! Q&A With French Reporter Camille Langlade
Worldcrunch.com / iQ PARIS — Five days ahead of the showdown between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen in France's crucial presidential elections, Worldcrunch has asked Camille Langlade, a political...
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Pyongyang Puts On A Modern Face But Misery Lingers
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA PYONGYANG — Every year North Koreans spend months preparing the capital for the country's most important holiday: the birthday of the country’s founder, Kim Il-sung. No...
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Duterte And Trump, When Tough Talk Leads To Deadly Action
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON, D.C. — During his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump boasted that "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and...
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Will The French Left Do The Right Thing?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — The French Left doesn't have a candidate of its own for the country's presidential election runoff on Sunday. The choice of the ruling Socialists, Benoît Hamon,...
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In France, Why Children Of Immigrants Have Turned To Le Pen
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE COULOMMIERS — In the working-class outskirts of Paris, people are counting. They count the number of houses now occupied by people from an immigrant background. "There are...
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A Woman's Perspective On Divorce In The Arab World
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG ABU DHABI — Farah wears her long black hair down and uncovered. Her nails are painted red. And she loves base jumping. She's also a divorcee — as of nine years...
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Preserving Japanese Artifacts, One 3D-Printed Replica At A Time
Worldcrunch.com / THE JAPAN NEWS CHIBA — Researchers are collecting 3D data of Buddhist statues and other cultural assets at a university here on the eastern outskirts of Tokyo in order to store the...
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True Fiction: Leonardo DiCaprio Wades Into War Over Water In India
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Around the world, local water shortages are a very real sign of the effects of climate change. Drought conditions in certain areas of India have recently left some cities...
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