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A Britain Hell Bent On Brexit Holds A Bigger Lesson For Europe
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -OpEd- PARIS — While leafing through the newspapers in an English pub last weekend, I was surprised to see The Sunday Times, hardly a tabloid, portraying the three fiercest...
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Valentine’s Day Violence In India, A Culture And Policing Divide
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — It’s that time of the year again. Time for fear to stalk hearts that beat with love and longing. Time for the memories of humiliation and harassment in the name...
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China To Argentina, Betting On Agrobusiness' Green Future
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN -Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — Everything suggests that in the future, the world may want practically anything Argentina can produce. The question is whether the response to this...
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Real-Life Ratatouille: Is Paris' Rat Problem Getting Worse?
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO PARIS — It all started with a video shot late last year on the banks of the Seine, between the Musée d'Orsay and Pont Royal bridge in the French capital. The video, which...
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Cryptocurrency Laundering? Colombia Drug Traffickers Eye Bitcoin
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTÁ — The cryptocurrency sector has come to be worth almost as much to the Colombian economy as tourism, accounting for just over 2% of GDP. Yet for some...
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When Afghan Refugee Weavers Meet Swedish Designers
Worldcrunch.com / KBR STOCKHOLM — A tightly packed showroom and workspace in the Swedish capital is filled with textile designs. Afghan and Swedish patterns combine to make entirely new and unique...
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After Florida School Massacre, Gauging Trump's Empathy Deficit
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — As he heads to Florida this weekend, President Donald Trump is following in the footsteps of former President Barack Obama, a man he loathes and a...
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Italian Revisited, Pinocchio Translated Into Emoji Language
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA MACERATA — In the first chapter of Carlo Collodi’s children’s classic The Adventures of Pinocchio, the carpenter Mastro Ciliegia notes that “this piece of wood” came just...
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Surfing Salesman
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Marvel all you want at Californian surfers, but this one-man Li River retailer on his bamboo raft is the real deal.
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Kinder Laws Of The Jungle: Understanding Altruism In Animals
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS LAUSANNE — Is wildlife a world of bullies? We like to imagine the relationships among living beings as a no-holds-barred struggle for survival, a twisted vision of Charles...
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Bitcoin, A Logical Return To Finance Of The Middle Ages
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — Michiel Van Aarnhem is a young and elegant advisor to the Dutch finance minister. He's also an award-winning video producer. The educational video...
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"Our Time Had Come" - A First-Person Account Of A Syrian Airstrike
Worldcrunch.com / SYRIA DEEPLY The story of Kfr Nobol Hospital is no different from other health facilities inside Syria that have paid a heavy price in the conflict. The hospital in Idlib province,...
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A Virtual Frog Video Game And China's One-Child Mindset
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — An online game from Japan has become a hopping success in China. Unheard of until recently, Tabikaeru: Travel Frog — developed by the Japanese company...
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Turkey And Germany, A Relationship Always Worth Watching
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH German-Turkish relations are a high-stakes affair. Not only does Germany count some three million residents with roots in Turkey, the two countries are strategic to both...
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Channeling Jules Verne, A Measure Of Elon Musk's Ambitions
Worldcrunch.com / LE FIGARO -Analysis- PARIS — He is “a man of about forty-two years of age, of large build, but slightly round-shouldered. His massive head momentarily shook a shock of reddish hair,...
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Watch: OneShot — War Amputees Soccer Players
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT OneShot — War amputees soccer players, 2002 (©Pep Bonet/NOOR) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video....
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The Virtual Paradox Of Generosity In The Digital Age
Worldcrunch.com / LE TEMPS PARIS — “If you could help this couple who are living in the street. Their number is on the sign …” This Oct. 28 tweet, accompanied by a snapshot of Robert and Emilia, two...
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Neither German Norwegian
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH I speak German, so I'm no stranger to the way some languages will simply slap words together. Stopping at this yurt-looking visitor office on my drive up north through...
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Why I Don't Believe Your Conspiracy Theory
Worldcrunch.com / BLOOMBERG NEWS -Essay- NEW YORK — I am of the view that incompetence, random error and sheer complexity explain most of the mistakes and strange events in our world, and that we...
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Colombia, How War Spreads "Cultural Violence" Into Daily Life
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — The Colombian press recently reported on a 12-year-old girl in Medellín who was stabbed with scissors by another female student at the José Félix Restrepo INEM...
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