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Uberization v. Red Tape, Digital Economy Drama On Streets Of Chile
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA -OpEd- SANTIAGO — I was stunned to find myself, upon arriving at Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez airport, in the midst of an altercation between taxi drivers,...
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Salty Turkish Mirage
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH That's not snow: During the summer, Lake Tuz in central Turkey dries up, revealing a thick layer of salt. My wife Claudine and daughter Cécile were gearing up against the...
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Luxor, 20 Years Since Birth Of Modern Jihadism
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT The murderers arrived in a bus on a Monday in November: six young men, groomed and freshly shaven, wearing police uniforms. All six were carrying heavy sports bags. Still,...
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When Your Brand Is Smothered In Neo-Nazi Love
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — The neo-Nazis were hungry. They had spent the day in a Charlottesville, Va., courthouse testifying at the preliminary hearing for a white nationalist...
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Indigenous People, Forgotten Soldiers In Climate Change War
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BONN — Though pivotal to safeguarding ecosystems, native peoples receive just two percent of all global funding spent on curbing climate change. Their representatives...
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From Mugabe To Merkel, The Many Ways To Cling To Power
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Lord Acton’s famous phrase about the corrupting effect of power (and absolute power) should have come with a footnote about the “clinging” factor. On any given...
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High In Italy's Alps, Ancient Tradition Of Cannabis Cultivation Revived
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA BORGOSESIA — In Valsesia, a picturesque chain of Alpine valleys in northwestern Italy, cannabis has been a traditional crop for over five millennia. The first records of...
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Venezuela And Zimbabwe: The Worst Of Times And Even Worse Of Times
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — They are allies that share some big problems on both the political and economic fronts: Venezuela and Zimbabwe. In 2008, Venezuela's foreign currency...
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Bill Clinton To Donald Trump, Sex And Power Still Stand At Top
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS WASHINGTON — The word has gone forth that a “reckoning” is due. Democrats are preparing to come to terms with Bill Clinton’s sexual transgressions. Sort of. Depending...
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The Siamese Storks
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH This recent photo of nestling storks at an open-air museum in eastern France's Alsace region shows that even 85 years after the stork brought me ... I still can be quick...
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Lebanon, Why The Crisis Is Only Just Beginning
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- BEIRUT — Since its independence in 1943, Lebanon has been exposed to the vicissitudes of the Middle East’s complicated geopolitics, from the creation of Israel,...
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More At Stake Than Merkel In Germany's Political Crisis
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Analysis- Are we witnessing “the twilight of Angela Merkel”? The question, asked Tuesday in Le Figaro’s lead editorial, is on everybody’s mind, both inside and outside...
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Protests In Haiti As President Reestablishes National Army
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti's national army was abolished 22 years ago after a disastrous period of military rule ended in a U.S.-led intervention that restored democracy in...
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Cursing Goethe: How German Filmmakers Brought The F-Word To Court
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH These days a certain four-letter expletive — arguably English's naughtiest word — is bouncing around the European Court of Justice. But it’s not coming from potty-mouthed...
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Domestic Violence And Israel's Sexist, Orthodox-Driven Divorce Law
Worldcrunch.com / LE MONDE JERUSALEM — "Past events." The expression seems neutral, factual, distant. But for S., the words — as they appear in the religious divorce documents granted her by the...
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Rahul Gandhi: India's Comeback Kid?
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — In October 2012, Rahul Gandhi said in Chandigarh that seven out of every ten youth in Punjab had a drug problem. It sounded like an outrageous statistic and his...
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Thanksgiving In Paris, A Serving Of American Optimism
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH -Essay- When you’re living abroad, Thanksgiving can sneak up on you. So when my dad sent me a message Wednesday night — “About to run my last errand for Mom (hopefully)”...
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Turkey-And-Egg Question: Which Came First, The Country Or The Bird?
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS — The Internet from the East was buzzing with Erdogan, from the West were Thanksgiving recipes ... All this got us Worldcrunch birds to finally ask out loud: Why...
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Internship offer / Offre de stage
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH PARIS Video production/editing/design [French version below] Worldcrunch is seeking a multimedia intern for a major new video/photographic project. Among your chief...
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Why Latin American Cities Are Still Digging Subways
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA London's inauguration, in 1863, of the world's first subway was quite literally a groundbreaking development. Since then, cities across the globe have followed suit...
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