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Extra! Remembering Guernica In Basque Newspaper
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH El Correo, April 26, 2017 The front page speaks for itself. "Guernika," Wednesday's edition of Spain’s El Correo reads, with the Basque spelling of Guernica displayed in...
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Head Over Heels
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Photography works in mysterious ways. This frozen moment of some graceful Bulgarian folk dancers in Varna somehow looks terribly clumsy. See more slides from My...
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Syrian Water Wheels Keep On Turning
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Like much of the rest of the country, Syria's fourth-largest city, Hama, has been left victim of the brutal civil war repeatedly over the past six years. Still, its most...
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Worth Every Step
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Climbing 400 or so stairs is all it took my wife Claudine and I to get to mingle with the gargoyles at the top of the Notre Dame cathedral, and enjoy an breathtaking view...
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Gaelic Landmark
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH High crosses like this one were a regular feature along the road whenever we drove through the Celtic areas of Europe — like Brittany, Wales, or here in Cornwall. See...
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Trump Control, From Comey To Korean Peninsula
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Having spent his whole life running a family business, Donald Trump is still adjusting to the strategic art of control required to effectively run the White...
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Free Fight Or Tai Chi? Ancient Dispute Settled In 20 Seconds
Worldcrunch.com / UNITED DAILY NEWS A decades-old argument might just have been settled: Modern "mixed martial arts" fighter vs. Tai Chi master — who wins?" In a recently filmed fight, Xu Xiaodong, a...
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Macron And Merkel, A New Dynamic Duo To Save Europe
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT BERLIN — Rest is short-lived in politics. Here in Germany, the Social Democratic Party (SPD) knows that well. And Chancellor Angela Merkel is about to feel it too with...
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Cheeky Shiva
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH There are Hindu deities everywhere you look along the streets of the Nepalese capital. Here, wood-carved figures of Shiva and Parvati keep an eye on Kathmandu's Durbar...
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That Awful Timelessness Of Picasso's Guernica
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR MADRID — Mercy and Terror. That is the title of an exhibition in Madrid's Reina Sofía museum exhibit that depicts Pablo Picasso's artistic progression toward Guernica,...
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Extra! Defiant Lula Says Not To Blame For Penthouse
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH O Globo, May 11, 2017 Brazil is riveted by the highly anticipated appearance of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to defend himself against charges in one of the...
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Language Wars, From Israel to Northern Ireland
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Language, Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “is the blood of the soul.” When there is more than one language on the same land, it can also becomes a prime source of conflict....
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Behind Any Great Man, The Singular Role Of Brigitte Macron
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE PARIS — Never did Emmanuel Macron, the French president-elect, plan to do any of this without her. Brigitte Macron, his wife, was always part of the equation. And come...
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I Support Trump But Firing FBI Chief Comey Was Wrong
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- I’m a Donald Trump supporter. I voted for him and — 112 days in — I’d vote for him again. As a former member of Congress, I found his call to “drain the...
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Cruel Border Stories Between Pakistan And Afghanistan
Worldcrunch.com / KBR PESHAWAR — Ayesha Rahmat, a 31-year-old mother of five, lives in a small, two-room house with an open kitchen in this northern Pakistani city. The smell of the bathroom cuts...
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Mussolini To Maduro, An Old Recipe For Killing Democracy
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- At first glance, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's proposals for a new assembly to rewrite the Constitution may seem unworthy of even being taken seriously. To...
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Nuance, Truth And Twitter — Q&A With La Stampa's Anna Masera
Worldcrunch.com / iQ In the second installment of a new series of articles to get to better know journalists and journalism around the world, Worldcrunch spoke to Anna Masera, public editor of top...
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Ag-Tech Accelerator? How Trump Is Pushing Farmers To Silicon Valley
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Finding people for the sometimes back-breaking tasks of planting and harvesting crops has become more and more difficult in the U.S., where the industry has relied on...
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We Syrians Must Rebuild People, Not Countries
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY When the Syrian conflict began in 2011, I deleted my Facebook profile, thinking that real-life, face-to-face discussions counted for much more than my virtual life on...
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Macron's Hardest Job: France's Dangerous Class Divide
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE -OpEd- PARIS — The Ode to Joy, which accompanied Emmanuel Macron's first public steps after being elected French president on May 7, resonated far beyond the courtyard of...
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