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Sunless In Seattle
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH We were in Seattle just about a month before a certain movie hit the screens. I slept through it all.
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Synthetic Diamonds Go Ultra Chic, With New Place Vendôme Boutique
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — The address is not by chance. Courbet, a jewelry designer that sells synthetic diamonds, has decided to open at the world's most prestigious location for any...
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Bayer Can Drop The Name Monsanto, But Can’t Erase The Hate
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Bayer is dropping the name Monsanto. What’s surprising about this is not the move itself, but the speed with which the new owners are getting rid of the...
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Watch: OneShot — D-Day, Into The Jaws Of Death
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT On June 6, 1944, WWII Allied Forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. To commemorate the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings,...
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From Colombia, A Passionate Defense Of Casting A Blank Vote
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -OpEd- BOGOTA — As Colombia prepares for a second round of presidential elections, with voters facing two rather divisive candidates, many are arguing that casting...
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Austrian Wunderkind? Kurz Eyes Pivotal Role In Geopolitics
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — With his most recent visit to Vienna, made on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has now met Austria's 32-year-old Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for the...
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In Southern Italy, A City's Perfect Storm Of Populism
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA FOGGIA — In front of the decaying ruins of the once-glorious Ariston theater, three people sleep on cardboard on the sidewalk. The street is lined with shuttered shopfronts...
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What Donald Gets Wrong About Deal-Making On Diplomacy Front
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS -Analysis- PARIS — Some years ago, in Beijing, one of my Chinese friends told me this: "You Westerners are very good at chess, but we Asians are masters at Go. In the long...
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Watch: OneShot — Rafael Nadal, King Of Clay
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT He's back! Check out our OneShot celebrating the King of Clay. The King of Clay, June 2 (© Chen Yichen/Xinhua/ZUMA) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a...
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Saving Caribbean Coral Reef With A High-Tech Hand
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY ST. CROIX — The Carnegie Airborne Observatory spent 16 days flying over a region devastated by hurricanes, using advanced tools to discover the extent of coral reef cover...
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Extra! On The Perils Of Low-Cost Plastic Surgery In China
Worldcrunch.com / CHINA NEWSWEEK China Newsweek — June 4, 2018 Over the past decade, there have been countless reports about the boom in cosmetic surgery in Asian countries such as China, Japan and...
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Cutting-Edge Fear: Technologies That Should Scare Us
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — Elon Musk has yet to prove whether he can actually lead his Tesla company to success. But there's one thing he definitely has managed to do: make us all...
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Another Consequence Of Venezuela Crisis: A Sex Trafficking Boom
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH SAN JOSE — Their nightmare begins in Venezuela, where the economic crisis ravaging their country makes the young women and girls — some as young as 11 or 12 —...
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North Korean Defectors Watch Summit With Hope, Trepidation
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST SEOUL - They are the simplest of dreams. To see familiar streets once more. Or walk along a river at the center of childhood memories. Or throw a big party with...
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Watch: OneShot — Thích Quảng Đức's Saigon Self-Immolation
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Our new OneShot commemorates Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức's self-immolation, which took place exactly 55 years ago, on June 11, 1963. The images of this dramatic moment by...
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Some Hard Truths About California's Water Woes
Worldcrunch.com / NEWS DEEPLY SELMA — The governor of California, Jerry Brown, declared an end to the state's five-year drought in April 2017 after a wet winter replenished shrinking reservoirs. But...
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Paving Paradise? In Poland, Calls To Block Forest Road Construction
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA -OpEd- WARSAW — The Narewkowska trail runs through the middle of one of Europe’s last remaining protected nature reserves, Poland’s Białowieża Forest. But now, the...
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Power Couple: Trump And Kim Make History, But What's Next?
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST -Analysis- With smiles and handshakes and words of mutual warmth, President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un entered the history books in Singapore on Tuesday...
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Who Said That? Words From New Italian Leaders Echo Dark Past
Worldcrunch.com / LA STAMPA ROME — Addressing his followers in Rome, Five Star leader and incoming labor minister Luigi Di Maio insisted last week that his party "is now the state." His words —...
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Women's Rights Hangover: In Mumbai, Male-Only Bars Still Exist
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE MUMBAI — As far as Indian cities go, Mumbai is probably the most free-spirited of them all. The streets are bustling till the wee hours, the people are generally more...
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