50 Years Of Portugal's "Carnation Revolution" — It All Began In Africa: It all started on April 25, 1974, when some frustrated military officers — who had seen ...
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Hong Kongers In The UK: The Hard Part About Political Asylum: Hong Kongers who moved to the UK following the 2019 pro-democracy protests to seek political asylum ...
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Iran-Israel: Why It's Not Over Yet: Israel's recent strike on central Iran was a warning shot for Tehran, tempered by a desire to close the recent spate of ...
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End Of Impunity? The Meaning Of U.S. Sanctions Of An Israeli Army Unit: The Israeli Army Unit operating in the West Bank has been sanctioned by the Biden ...
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The Quest to Find and Identify Missing Persons: Researchers are testing eDNA as a tool to locate lost soldiers’ remains. Can the approach one day help solve ...
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What Record Spending On Weapons Means In A World Where The Next War May Be Virtual
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Quick Glance: Global Military Spending Hits Historic High in 2023
- Global military spending hit a record high of $2.443 billion in 2023 after a 7% increase, as per a report.
- Military expenditure rose consistently over nine years in all regions due to worsening peace and security globally.
- Countries like Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Germany, and the UK saw significant spikes in their military spending.
- Israel notably increased its military spending significantly due to the conflict in the Middle East, particularly a major offensive in Gaza in 2023.
How Iran's New Local Headscarf Crackdowns Blend With Looming Wars Abroad : Iranian authorities are enforcing Islamic dress norms with renewed vigor and the ...
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Welcome To Vilnius, A New Silicon Valley Rising In Moscow's Backyard: Home to the unicorn Vinted, Lithuania's capital is fostering its image as a Northern ...
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Preventing A Putin Victory: Washington's $61 Billion Bet On Ukraine: It has taken months for Ukraine to be able to celebrate the U.S. approval of a much-needed ...
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Quick Glance: Ukrainian President Thanks US for Weapon Aid
- Ukrainian President Zelenskyy thanked U.S. political leaders for approving an aid package for Ukraine, providing the country with a chance at "victory" in its defense against Russia.
- The House passed a bill granting Ukraine $60.8 billion in aid, with Zelenskyy urging swift Senate approval to ensure rapid assistance to frontline soldiers.
- Zelenskyy emphasized the critical need for long-range weapons and air defense systems to stabilize the situation and regain the initiative in Ukraine.
- He addressed rumors of a territorial deal with Russia, emphasizing the importance of a strategy based on concrete democratic measures to end the war.
Child Soldiers: Syria's Armed Factions Are Sending Kids To The Front Lines: After more than a decade of war in Syria, where some 90% of the population now lives ...
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Deadly Boost? Why A Spanish Region Is Banning Energy Drinks For Teens: The debate over the potential dangers of energy drinks, especially for young people ...
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Teleworking Safety? The Legal Gray Area Of Remote Work Injuries: What qualifies as an occupational accident when an employee is working from home? In France ...
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The "Net-Zero" Trap: True Environmental Sustainability Must Go Deeper Than Emissions
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Fleeing War, Sudanese Risk Their Lives In The Desert To Reach Egypt: Many Sudanese fleeing the war in their country are risking their lives and cross to Egypt ...
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#CaviarTok: How Instagram And TikTok Are Reinventing Caviar: Long the preserve of the elite, caviar is now attracting a wider audience, boosted by its ubiquitous ...
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Toward A New Humanism: How To Defeat Putin And The Ideology Of Demonization: As Putin's Russian propaganda aims at Islamist terrorists now, justifying the use of ...
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A Middle East Paradox: All Those Iranians Looking To Israel As Last, Best Hope: The Islamic Republic of Iran wants to destroy Israel and seems willing to ...
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Quick Glance: Israeli Strike Damages Iranian Air Defense System Without Detection, Officials Say
- An Israeli airstrike on Iran on Friday damaged an air defense system, according to Western and Iranian officials, and appeared calculated to deliver a message that Israel could bypass Iran’s defensive systems undetected and paralyze them.
- The strike damaged a defensive battery near Natanz, a city in central Iran that is critical to the country’s nuclear weapons program, according to the officials.
- The relatively limited scope of Israel’s strike and the muted response from Iranian officials, however, seem to have eased tensions.
- It was confirmed that Israel had deployed aerial drones and at least one missile fired from a warplane, as stated by three Western and two Iranian officials.
LSD vs. Fibromyalgia: One Woman's Psychedelic Search For Chronic Pain Relief: While more than 2 million Italians are thought to have fibromyalgia ...
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A Weird Week Indeed: My Octopus Problem, Ew-Gi-Oh, 353 Ballerinas: While busy delivering the best international journalism, the Worldcrunch team also stumbles on ...
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Paid articlePaid Charisma Or Cult? Modi's Fading Appeal Leaves Indian Elections Wide Open: As a jaded and faded minister over-stretches himself, the BJP can see the election ...
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Worldcrunch Magazine #80 — All Eyes On Iran: Discover the latest edition of Worldcrunch Magazine, featuring powerful articles by top international journalists ...
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Paid articlePaid U.S.-Egypt: How Relations Could Change With Trump’s Return To The White House: Will former U.S. President Donald Trump maintain his "dealmaker" approach towards ...
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France-Senegal: Witness To A Neo-Colonial Breakup?: The election of the new president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, paves the way for a period of ...
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Queer Reception: Mexico's LGBTQ-Owned Hotel, Where Every Guest Feels At Home: The hotel, the first in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to be staffed by a mostly queer ...
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The West's Defense Of Israel Reminds Ukraine Of A Bitter Truth: Seeing the near-perfect effectiveness of Israel's defense against Iranian drones and missiles ...
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Women Of Disquiet: A Loud, Hard 'No' To Portugal's Paid Housewife Proposal: A right-wing association of men in Portugal wants housewives to be recognized for ...
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Missing In Khan Younis: How I Found My Brother’s Body: The brother of Palestinian journalist Mohamed Abu Shahma chose to return home to Khan Younis despite ...
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Assigned Mario At Birth, Monique At Jail: A patient runs into our Naples-based psychiatrist and has a few questions about his/her identity.
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The True Revolution Of Pope Francis Is That He's Just A Man: The Argentine-born pontiff appears equal parts combative and caring, and apt to share parts of papal ...
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Mama Shelter Knows Best: How One French Hotelier's Bet Paid Off: Mama Shelter, pioneer of the lifestyle wave in Europe's hotel industry, is celebrating its 15th ...
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Why Arab Countries Are Defending Israel Against Iran: Despite the war in Gaza, Jordan participated, on Saturday, in the destruction of Iranian missiles and ...
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Memories For Food: Gaza Mothers Sell Family Heirlooms To Feed Their Children: The Israeli blockade of food, water, fuel, and essential medicines and supplies is ...
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Did Israel Set A Trap For Iran — Or For Itself?: Netanyahu walks that fine line between deterrence and escalation.
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Shish Kebab: Back To The Source Of Turkey's Best-Known Culinary Export: Shish kebab is one of the most special and world famous foods of Turkish cuisine ...
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How Latin America’s Far-Right Populists Are Rewriting The History Of Military Dictatorships
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This Is Why We Flee — Every Migrant Has A (Good) Reason To Leave : Armed conflicts, droughts, floods, poverty... Many factors are pushing some young people from ...
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Wolves, Ancient Predator And Symbol Of France's Rural-Urban Divide: For the past 30 years, the number of wolves has steadily increased in France — great news for ...
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How Religious Institutions Are Making Egypt's Economic Crisis Worse: Amid increasingly dire economic, social and humanitarian conditions in Egypt ...
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In Dafen, China's Masters Of Fake Art Struggle To Sell Their Own Creations: Dafen has long been the world capital of oil painting copies. After years of ...
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Senegal's Cheikh Fall Tragedy: When Homophobia Goes Beyond The Grave: At the end of October 2023 in western Senegal, a mob exhumed the body of a man, Cheikh Fall ...
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Iran's Dilemma: Martyrdom or Realpolitik in the Face of Israel's Provocation: For decades Iran's leaders have promoted martyrdom as a precept of the regime ...
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A Weird Week Indeed: Paris Waiters Race, Thai Monkey Mayhem, 0.3-Second Basketball Game
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Paid articlePaid Pole-Dancers in Puerto Rico Take on Sexism, Seek Independence: Uncomfortable in strip clubs managed by men, the artists perform in their own spaces ...
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Echos Of Nuremberg: The Need For Justice In Our New Dark Age Of Violence: The UN and the international criminal justice system are failing to prevent and punish ...
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"Most Views": In This Egyptian Series, TikTok Girls Pay The Price Of Preaching: While the "Most Views" which aired in Egypt during the month of Ramadan is ...
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Will Post-Erdogan Turkey Really Be Much Different?: Following his AKP party's resounding defeat in the March local elections, Turkish President Erdogan ...
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Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Is Also A "Semantic War" — Here's How To Fight Back: Russia's semantic war against Ukraine aims to create such discourse and future ...
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How The Killing Of “White” Aid Workers Has Pushed Israel Into A Corner: After Israel’s military killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen — ...
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Quick Glance: US Warns of Possible Iranian Attacks on Israel
- The United States believes Iran could attack Israel in the coming days, potentially escalating a war in the region.
- Threats of an Iranian attack on Israeli assets have been shared with U.S. lawmakers.
- The attacks are expected to be in retaliation for Israel's airstrike in Syria last week, which killed a top Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps commander.
- The U.S. is concerned about the potential destabilization of the region due to a possible Iranian attack.
Gold Or Bitcoin? The Quintessential Investor Dilemma : If you are not a billionaire or a fund, the investment rules of yesteryear apply: gold won't make you rich ...
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ISIS Resurgence? What The Moscow Attack Says About The Future Of Islamist Terrorism
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The Contested World of Classifying Life on Earth: No single, unified list exists of all species cataloged by humans. Some scientists want that to change.
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The Taste Of Future: What's Cooking In Food Tech?: Faced with the challenges of population growth and climate change, the development of new technologies such as ...
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In Occupied Ukraine, Feminist Resistance Of An Underground Women's Brigade: How the women's partisan movement rose up from the southeastern city of Melitopol to ...
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Rafah, Gaza — Rafah, Egypt: Border City Split In Two, Pawn Of A Poisoned Land: Rafah's modern tragedy began with the U.S.-brokered Camp David peace treaty ...
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In Uganda’s Artisanal Mines, Where Salt Corrodes Workers’ Health: The unlicensed workers use what they have to combat health fears in Uganda’s top salt-producing ...
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How A Princeton Professor Has Quietly Been Working For Iran's Regime: U.S. Congressmen and Iranian opponents want to know why a veteran official of the Tehran ...
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Shakira's Howl: A Colombian Beacon, Feminist Gesture And Marketing Gem: Shakira made headlines this week for calling the Barbie movie “emasculating ...
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Humanitarians At Risk, Samaritans Of War: When The Best Among Us Die A Violent Death
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Medellín's New Prostitution Ban Misses The Real Crime: Child Sex Trafficking: Colombia’s second-largest city has imposed a six-month ban on prostitution in a bid ...
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Choosing Gaza: Why Some Palestinians Are Risking War To Return Home: In late March, the Palestinian embassy in Cairo organized a crossing for Palestinians back ...
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Inflation Has Cut Deep Into Egypt's Ramadan Food Donations: This year's Ramadan has seen a significant decrease in food donations in Egypt ...
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Why France-Russia Tensions Are Raising Security Fears About The Paris Olympics: A telephone conversation between the French and Russian defense ministers on ...
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Revenge Poetry? Israel's "Soldier-Poets" Reveal The True Essence Of The War On Gaza
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Is Ecuador's Military Violence Spiraling Out of Control? More About It in Worldcrunch Magazine #78
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Paid articlePaid The NATO Moment: Time To Activate The Not-So-Secret Weapon In Ukraine War: NATO is planning to massively expand its support for Ukraine. A plan by ...
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Quick Glance: NATO Exposes Russian Spies in Brussels
- In recent years, NATO has expelled suspected Russian spies from its headquarters in Brussels.
- Secretary General Stoltenberg confirms the expulsions without providing specific numbers.
- German politicians like Strack-Zimmermann and von Notz call for better security measures against espionage.
- Kiesewetter describes the Russian intelligence system as offensive-aggressive and praises NATO's response.
Why The Cuban-Venezuelan Alliance Is More Toxic Than Ever: Recent Cuban protests over fuel and food swiftly turned against the communist system but unlike the ...
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How Netflix's "3 Body Problem" Is Feeding The U.S.-China Cold War: The success of the Netflix series "3 Body Problem", adapted from a famous Chinese science ...
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Gùsto! How · What · Where Locals Eat (And Drink) In Amman: An ancestral city that has managed to keep its authenticity while infusing a variety of influences? ...
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Power, Wealth, Ambivalence — China's Contradictions Weigh On The World: Just because war is more likely to spread to Europe (if not the Middle East) than explode ...
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NGO Killings Trigger New Accusations Of Israel "Weaponizing Food" In Gaza: The Israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza has set off an ...
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Paid articlePaid Tipping Culture: Variations From Table To Table, Country To Country: The tipping culture is a deep-rooted phenomenon in several societies, which raises the ...
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Paid articlePaid Report: Gaza Aid Workers Are Forcing Displaced Families To Pay For Food: Displaced people in Gaza accuse aid groups' representatives of "extortion and theft" in ...
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Paid articlePaid Why Chinese Overcapacity Is About To Slam Into Europe's Economy: In China, sales of electric cars, consumer goods and industrial products are stalling ...
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Paid articlePaid The Allure and Dangers of Experimenting With Brain-Dead Bodies: For scientists who perform medical research on the recently deceased, there are few regulatory or ...
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Erdogan Exit Scenarios? Where Turkey Fits Between Brazil, Poland — And Putin: Former mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan had once theorized that a victory in the capital ...
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Paid articlePaid Executions And Torture — The Darkest Side Of Ecuador’s Militarization: Since Ecuador’s president declared a state of emergency in January, military violence has ...
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The "Domicide" Plan: Israel's Attempt To Destroy The Palestinian Home: Israel’s colonial-settler project aims to kill this protective, familiar ...
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Paid articlePaid Linguistic Identity, The Boundary Of Belonging Told Through Books: While literary distinctions are evolving, the divide between local and foreign literature ...
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Paid articlePaid Why Turkey's Strongman Rule Never Slips Into Pure Dictatorship: Turkey has more than a century of democracy and elections, and a bonafide opposition ...
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