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Europe's Sovereignty Crisis, Moving Beyond The Nation-State
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- Emmanuel Macron's use of fainéant, the French word for "slacker," caused an uproar in France. But the real "slackers" are the commentators who scatter hashtags to...
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Palestinian Prisoner Payouts: Humane Or Pure Hypocrisy?
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO RAMALLAH — Muhannas' tough-looking teenage face is just one among the many portraits of men, some young and others not so young, pasted on the walls of the Qalandiya...
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Can A New Wall Shield The Eiffel Tower From Terror?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- The blueprints of the Middle Ages are back. Even as metal and glass have long since replaced stone and mortar, there is an unmistakable parallel to be drawn...
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The Benefits Of Democratizing Big Data
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- CARACAS — Big data is defined as the enormous mass of digital information produced by electronic interactions via mobile phones, online transactions and...
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The Woman Who Stared Boko Haram In The Eye, And Didn't Flinch
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS GENEVA — She didn't expect the enthusiasm with which she was honored. When she received the 2017 Sergio Vieira de Mello Award, which is named after the former High...
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Lining Up For Lenin
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Even a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, people were lining up in Red Square to get a glimpse of Vladimir Lenin: the Communist leader's embalmed body remains on...
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France's Libération: "Aung San Suu Kyi: A Nobel And A Massacre"
Worldcrunch.com / LIBERATION Libération, Sept. 19, 2017 Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday broke her silence on the violence in her Buddhist-majority country that has forced hundreds of...
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Private Lives And Public Service, An Australian Story
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA -OpEd- TURIN — Everyone knew that Australian politician Rachel Carling-Jenkins had filed for a divorce, but nobody knew why. She explained it herself, a few days ago,...
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This Ship Tracking Startup Wants To Be The "Maritime Google"
Worldcrunch.com / CALCALIST TEL AVIV — If you know how to read the sea, it tells you a story. Every fisherman knows this, every romantic author with a beard. And so does every shipping analyst. Nadav...
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On North Korea, Trump Has Now Gone Full "Madman"
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -OpEd- WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took to the floor of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and, in his maiden speech there, called the leader...
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Extra! Mexico Slammed Again By Major Quake
Worldcrunch.com / MILENIO Milenio Novedades, Sept. 20, 2017 For the second time is as many weeks, "Mexico Shakes," as the front page of the Yucatán daily Milenio Novedades reports, following a...
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Merkel And The Far Right, Why Both Are About To Make History
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT BERLIN — The legacy of Konrad Adenauer, the first ever chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, was quite tangible, namely a stabilized albeit largely destroyed and...
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The Calais "Jungle" Is Gone, But Migrants Are Back Already
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO CALAIS — The French city of Calais wakes up slowly. All is peaceful. A few cars cross the Mollien bridge, which lies just a stone's throw away from the imposing red-brick...
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Can A Violinist Stand In The Way Of War With North Korea?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH With each passing day, war with North Korea seems to draw closer. Kim Jong Un continues to test his arsenal; Donald Trump issues new threats and nicknames his nemesis...
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Japan Facing World War II Truth Before Last Witnesses Die
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER -Essay- TOKYO — In mid-August, as Japan commemorated the 72nd anniversary of the end of World War II, the Japanese broadcasting corporation NHK scheduled a series...
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In Mexico, Making Solidarity Last Beyond The Quake
Worldcrunch.com / FOLHA DE S. PAULO -OpEd- In his account of the 1985 earthquake, which killed between 6,000 and 30,000 people (there are no precise figures) and destroyed more than 800 buildings in...
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View From A Batak Backyard
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH It's sometimes easy to forget that the Batak houses of Indonesia's North Sumatra are not there only for the tourists' viewing pleasure — people actually live in them. All...
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Facebook And Transparency, Zuckerberg Must Go Farther
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS Political pressure is gradually forcing Facebook executives to take responsibility for the content that appears on the social network, at this point mainly for the...
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German Elections, Why The World Needs Angela Merkel
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — Henry Kissinger once famously summed up Germany's problems by saying that it was "too big for Europe, too small for the world." It's a good turn of phrase,...
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Los Angeles Celebrates Latin American And Latinx Art
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN LOS ANGELES — Finally, the international art scene is giving Latin American and Latino art (that is, art by Americans of Hispanic origin) the recognition it deserves. Last...
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