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Google Or Baidu? Chinese Have Their Say In Short-Lived Survey
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH Bring it! That's the message Chinese tech giant Baidu delivered this week amid talk that Google is planning a return to China. "We are very confident we can just PK and...
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From Punjabi To Breton: Five Language Controversies Around The World
Worldcrunch.com / WORLDCRUNCH More than just a vehicle to communicate, language expresses and helps construct identity. As such, it has the power to inspire and unite people — but language can also be...
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Import Nation: Why India Still Lags In High-End Manufacturing
Worldcrunch.com / THE WIRE NEW DELHI — Last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government announced the grand opening of the world’s largest mobile phone plant just outside India’s capital....
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Hardline Revisited, Welcome To Iván Duque's Colombia
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR BOGOTÁ — The peace accords signed two years ago with the demobilized FARC guerillas continue to divide Colombians politically, as do questions over how the country...
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Watch: OneShot — On Revolution Road
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT During the 2011 war in Libya, NOOR photographer Yuri Kozyrev wound up in the wrong place at the right time. His image of the moment a rebel position was targeted by a missile...
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Turkey, No Limit To How Far The Contagion Can Spread
Worldcrunch.com / LES ECHOS PARIS — It may just be a matter of hours. If Turkey fails to stop the rapid decline of its currency, it may run out of air. Its economy would then be seriously damaged. Its...
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Why Chinese Are Choosing Europe To Invest In Real Estate
Worldcrunch.com / ECONOMIC OBSERVER BEIJING — Yang Ke works for a high-tech company in Shenzhen on the southeast coast of China. Thanks to a few years spent abroad, he has saved up a considerable...
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Watch: OneShot - The Queen Of Pop Turns 60
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT She is in the Guinness World Records as the best-selling recording artist of all time. Sometimes referred to as the Queen of Pop, and cited as an inspiration for generations...
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A Progressive Manifesto For Europe To Protect Its Borders
Worldcrunch.com / DIE WELT -OpEd- BERLIN — I was in continental Spain and in the Spanish North-African enclave of Ceuta a few days ago. I looked at how the south of the country was reacting in the...
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Pink Cocaine: New Mystery Drug Hits Buenos Aires Club Scene
Worldcrunch.com / CLARIN BUENOS AIRES — The "menu" of options, sent every other week via WhatsApp, arrived like it always did, Josefina (not her real name) recalls. Only this time there was something...
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Watch: OneShot - Farewell To Aretha Franklin
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul, died on Thursday at the age of 76. All kinds of Respect in this time of mourning for the music world. Here she was performing...
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Heat Is On In Central America (It's Not Just Nicaragua)
Worldcrunch.com / EL ESPECTADOR -Analysis- BOGOTA — Nicaragua is facing its most violent crisis since the 1980s, when President Daniel Ortega first led the country. Between 295 and 448 people have...
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Turkish Crisis, An Unprecedented Test For Erdogan Regime
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG -Analysis- Turkey is a country with extreme social differences. If the inflation rate rises, the lira tumbles and price stickers in supermarkets are rewritten...
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Venezuela, Any Tricks Left For Halting Hyperinflation?
Worldcrunch.com / AMERICA ECONOMIA There are no official figures for inflation in Venezuela, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the rate to reach around 1,000,000% by the end of 2018....
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Boys Being Boys? Poland's Controversial Military Camps For Kids
Worldcrunch.com / GAZETA WYBORCZA MRZEŻYNO — Sleeping mats, camouflage clothes, military boots, a compass and a penknife. Kuba Michalski, 12, is packing for a trip. In Gdańsk, the northern Polish city...
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Watch: OneShot - 10 Years Ago, Breastfeeding In Afghanistan
Worldcrunch.com / ONESHOT The pure beauty of Siamoy breastfeeding her month-old baby Hokim, in this image taken exactly 10 years ago, powerfully contrasts with a grim reality on the ground. NOOR...
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The Battle For A Constitutional Right To Literacy
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST Detroit — When Jamarria Hall strode into Osborn High in Detroit his freshman year, the signs of decay were everywhere: buckets in the hallways to catch leaking...
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A Russian Guide For Surviving U.S. Midterm Elections
Worldcrunch.com / KOMMERSANT MOSCOW — The already shaken Russian-American relations are about to face new turmoil as Nov. 6 midterm elections to the U.S. Congress loom. During Donald Trump's...
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Storm Looms For Trump After Courtroom Bombshells
Worldcrunch.com / THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON — No day during President Donald Trump's 19 months in office could prove as dangerous or debilitating as Tuesday. Everything that happened in a pair of...
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Greetings From The Instagram Hotel
Worldcrunch.com / SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG MUNICH — From a digital point of view, the Norwegian Erik Nissen Johansen is at the forefront: Even his cat has Instagram. No wonder then that the hotel designer...
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