Riccardo, an Italian final-year medical student, is going on Erasmus. The destination: Gaza, a war zone.
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Apple is the most valuable company in the world and has a role in our lives like no other. But a company that started out as the cool underdog to Microsoft is now subsumed in a wave of controversies.
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In the United States, temperatures are breaking all records. Last summer in California, temperatures reached almost 60° in some areas. But talk of climate change deeply divides the country. And, as always, the poor pay the highest price.
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The last time she was in Ukraine was this summer, for vacation. As soon as war was declared, journalist Tetiana Bigoun returned to the country of her childhood to find her family in the midst of the fighting. She takes us on a tour of a country under attack.
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The famed City of Lights doesn’t shine quite so brightly these days. Locals complain of dirty streets, poorly maintained roads, scruffy street furniture, horrendous traffic jams, and growing uncertainty.
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The Nagorno-Karabakh war left more than 4,500 Armenians dead and 15,000 injured.
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Taiwan is one of the most advanced democracies in the world. It’s also one of the most threatened. The problem is that China has always considered Taiwan to be one of its own provinces. Even today, President Xi Jinping does not rule out using force to claim it back. But what’s different now is that both sides seem to be becoming more militant...
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Femicide: the intentional killing of a woman or a girl by a man because they are female. Typically the woman killed will either just have ended a relationship or be acting more independently. The murder is presented as an anomaly in the press: the man was depressed or the woman somehow provoked him. The real causes of femicide are rarely explored.
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With nearly 1.5 million soldiers and a budget of 700 billion dollars, the US army is the most powerful military force in the world. Yet, as evident in Vietnam or Afghanistan, being the world's largest army isn’t always a guarantee of success…
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