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As Israel moves into Rafah, are ceasefire talks over?
The Israel Defense Forces now controls Gaza’s main border crossing with Egypt in the city of Rafah. Israel’s military carried out airstrikes overnight in Rafah. The IDF operation commenced on Monday ...
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Kalush Orchestra brings Ukrainian folk music to the world stage
Kalush Orchestra has a unique sound that blends rap with traditional Ukrainian folk music. In 2022, the band, representing Ukraine, won Eurovision. The victory was a huge boost for a country at war ...
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A group of American women and children held in detention camps in Syria return to the US
Eleven Americans, who had been stranded in desert camps in northeastern Syria for years, arrived back in the US on Tuesday. The group included a child who is not a US citizen but was repatriated in ...
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Kalush Orchestra brings Ukrainian folk music to world stage
Kalush Orchestra has a unique sound that blends rap with traditional Ukrainian folk music. In 2022, the band representing Ukraine, won Eurovision. The victory was a huge boost for a country at war, ...
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Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No. 9’ turns 200
Two hundred years ago today, Beethoven debuted his “Symphony No. 9” at a theater in Vienna. The composer was nearly deaf, so no one is quite sure of how much of the audience’s thunderous ovations ...
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Mexico City is running out of water
Water supplies in Mexico City are at a historic low because of a combination of low rainfall, rising temperatures and outdated infrastructure. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports on the paradox of a ...
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Olympics torch set to arrive in troubled city of Marseille
On the eve of the Olympics torch arrival, the city of Marseille is dogged by violence, drug dealing and police brutality. It’s not exactly the image France wants to project as host of the 2024 Games.
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Autocrats and propaganda 2.0
Authoritarian leaders in China and Russia are increasingly effective at using propaganda online in surprising ways. And these days, they have new allies in the US. Author and historian Anne Applebaum ...
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Gen Z political divide
A phenomenon known as the Great Gender Divergence is showing up in multiple research studies. It concludes that men and women born after 1996, the so-called Gen Z, are politically divided along gender ...
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Heavy flooding in Brazil’s south creates havoc for residents
Southern Brazil is facing the worst climate disaster in its history. Unprecedented floods have engulfed major Rio Grande do ...
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What it takes to pull off the world’s largest election in India
Election officials spread out across India to set up voting booths in some of its most remote corners of the country. It’s to ...
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American women and children in Syrian detention camps return to the US
A group of Americans who had been stranded in desert camps in northeastern Syria for years arrived back in the US on Tuesday. Also, water supplies in Mexico’s capital are at a historic low because of ...