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Worldcrunch » Archives for December 2016

December 2016

Inside the Panasonic vegetable farm in Singapore
Economytechnology

In Fukushima, An Electronics Maker Bets On Farming Inside Factories

by Worldcrunch December 31, 2016May 22, 2025
Confiscated ISIS chemical weapons
Syria Crisisisis

The ISIS Rockets “Made In Turkey”

by Worldcrunch December 30, 2016May 21, 2025
Goodbye 2016!
In The Newsunited states

Staff Favorites: Our 16 Best Stories Of 2016

by Worldcrunch December 29, 2016May 23, 2025
It's pronounced 'hoo-guh'
blogsociety

‘Hygge’ The Curious Story Of Danish Happiness

by Worldcrunch December 28, 2016May 22, 2025
The central station in Cologne
In The Newspolitics

A Year After Cologne: The Quiet Submission Of German Women

by Tanja Hofbauer December 27, 2016May 24, 2025
Rue Amelot, Our Best International Essays Of 2016
In The Newsfrance

Rue Amelot, Our Best International Essays Of 2016

by Worldcrunch December 26, 2016May 23, 2025
A human tower in front of the Sagrada Familia
In The Newsreligion

Sagrada Familia, A Battle For Barcelona’s Soul

by Worldcrunch December 25, 2016May 22, 2025
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Dec. 22
In The Newsturkey

The End Of Turkey’s Ottoman Dreams

by Ozgur Ogret December 24, 2016May 21, 2025
Near the Christmas market on Breitscheidplatz square in Berlin, on Dec. 22
Ideasberlin

A Christmas Wish For Europe: Time To Defend Our Civilization

by Worldcrunch December 23, 2016May 22, 2025
Where did the banknotes fly away?
Economyeconomy

What’s Really Behind Venezuela’s Vanishing Banknotes

by Alidad Vassigh December 23, 2016May 22, 2025
December in Bialystok
In The Newspoland

Bialystok Story, If Swastikas Can Silence Esperanto

by Marta Danon December 22, 2016May 22, 2025
Fistful Of Pesetas
In The Newsphotography

Fistful Of Pesetas

by Bertrand Hauger December 22, 2016May 22, 2025
Oh, 2016
In The Newsbrazil

Goodbye 2016: A Zapping Video Year In Review

by Worldcrunch December 22, 2016May 21, 2025
Merkel and Erdoğan at the NATO summit in Brussels
In The Newsberlin

Merkel After The Christmas Market

by Worldcrunch December 22, 2016May 21, 2025
Analyzing Mona Lisa
In The Newsscience

Brains And Beauty, Can Neuroscience Measure How Art Affects Us?

by [email protected] December 22, 2016May 23, 2025
Arab calligraphy
Geopoliticsegypt

Typeface Designers ‘Reinvent The Wheel’ To Create Arabic Fonts

by Worldcrunch December 21, 2016May 23, 2025
Kids playing in Hunan Province, China
In The Newschina

Child Thieves For Hire In China

by [email protected] December 21, 2016May 22, 2025
Police officers in El Salvador
In The Newschristmas

Spotlight: El Salvador, A Christmas Plea For Peace

by Worldcrunch December 21, 2016May 20, 2025
Hommage to Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov, in Moscow
In The Newsturkey

Ankara Is Not Sarajevo, Bad Analogies Of Russian Envoy Assassination

by [email protected] December 21, 2016May 22, 2025
At a Pride Parade in Bogota, Colombia
Ideaseducation

Rare Poll Finds LGBT Students Fear School Because Of Bullies

by Worldcrunch December 20, 2016May 22, 2025
Police forces in Berlin on Dec. 19
In The Newsmarket

Spotlight: Ankara To Berlin, Deadly Connections

by Worldcrunch December 20, 2016May 21, 2025
In The Newsgermany

Berlin Christmas Market Attack On Front Page In Germany

by Worldcrunch December 20, 2016May 21, 2025
Man walking in Aleppo on Dec. 17
Societysyria

Aleppo, A Historic City Of Peace And Commerce Turns To Dust

by Worldcrunch December 20, 2016May 22, 2025
Herero war prisoners circa 1898
In The Newshistory

In Namibia, Open Wounds Of Germany’s “Other” Genocide

by Tanja Hofbauer December 19, 2016May 22, 2025
President-elect Trump in Orlando on Dec. 16
In The Newsunited states

Spotlight: Trump’s Final Hurdle

by [email protected] December 19, 2016May 21, 2025
Franco Metta, mayor of Cerignola
In The Newscorruption

A Simple Political Lesson From One Small Town In Italy

by Giacomo December 19, 2016May 22, 2025
Flag-raising ceremony in Beijing
In The Newschina

China, A Global Superpower? Not So Fast

by Laura Lin December 16, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newsdemocracy

Spotlight: In Africa, Elections Reveal Democrats And Despots

by [email protected] December 16, 2016May 20, 2025
Syrian refugees in a camp in the Idlib province
In The Newssyria

After Aleppo Inferno, Idlib To Become ‘Purgatory’

by [email protected] December 16, 2016May 23, 2025
Members of the Mexican political party Morena protesting
Ideasmexico

The Social And Political Struggles Transforming Mexico

by Alidad Vassigh December 16, 2016May 20, 2025
Trump approaches take-off
In The Newsputin

Trump, A ‘Pragmatist’ In Russian Eyes

by Lottie Valks December 16, 2016May 22, 2025
Winter in the Donbass region
Geopoliticsukraine

In War-Torn Donbass, Ukrainians Of Polish Origin Beg Warsaw For Help

by Marta Danon December 15, 2016May 22, 2025
Goldman Sachs, The Singular New York-To-Washington Path To Power
In The Newsunited states

Goldman Sachs, The Singular New York-To-Washington Path To Power

by [email protected] December 15, 2016May 21, 2025
A factory worker in Sorocaba, Brazil
In The Newsbrazil

Spotlight: Brazil 2016, Worst Of Years

by Worldcrunch December 15, 2016May 22, 2025
Working on the line in Copenhagen
In The Newsunemployment

Hard Questions For Denmark’s Soft Unemployment Cure

by [email protected] December 15, 2016May 22, 2025
A pro-government Syrian soldier prepares ammunition in Aleppo.
Ideassyria

Why The War In Syria Is Far From Over

by Worldcrunch December 14, 2016May 22, 2025
Ski, snow and sun
In The Newsswitzerland

A Swiss Ski Pass Start-Up Looks To Uberize The Slopes

by [email protected] December 14, 2016May 22, 2025
Putin and his Akita guard dog
In The Newssyria

Moscow To Beijing To DC, When Strongmen Take Charge

by [email protected] December 14, 2016May 22, 2025
Chavez and Castro in 2006
In The Newscuba

Castro, Lessons For Leftists Still Defending Their Dictators

by Alidad Vassigh December 14, 2016May 22, 2025
Boarding time in Tehran in February
In The Newsiran

In Iran, The Meaning Of An Airplane Fleet

by Alidad Vassigh December 13, 2016May 20, 2025
Syrian refugees across the border in Gaziantep, Turkey
In The Newssyria

Syrian Brothers Split By War Report From Both Sides Of Border

by [email protected] December 13, 2016May 22, 2025
Port of Hamburg
Economygermany

Export-Dependent Germany Faces Reckoning As Protectionism Spreads

by Tanja Hofbauer December 12, 2016May 24, 2025
Day of the dead (languages?)
In The Newsmexico

Mexico And Its Multitude Of Disappearing Languages

by Giacomo December 12, 2016May 20, 2025
Inside Cairo's Coptic Cathedral on Dec. 11
In The Newsegypt

What Is Left? Anger In Aftermath Of Cairo’s Church Bombing

by [email protected] December 12, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newsunited states

Spotlight: Trump Wasn’t Kidding On China

by Worldcrunch December 12, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newsisis

Bloody Weekend Covers Dutch Front Page

by Worldcrunch December 12, 2016May 20, 2025
Prayer beads below a name board on a tree at the Coburger Land Ruheforst forest cemetery in Germany.
In The Newsgermany

The End Of Grief, How Modern Life Is Making Death Anonymous

by [email protected] December 12, 2016May 21, 2025
A quaint (and Christian) setting across the border in Hungary
In The Newsmigration

Reverse Migration? Germans Move To Orban’s Hungary To Flee Immigrants

by Worldcrunch December 11, 2016May 22, 2025
A Taiwanese American parade in Honolulu
In The Newsdiplomacy

Trump And My Taiwan: A Phone Call Can Change Everything

by [email protected] December 10, 2016May 22, 2025
At the Rachel House center in Jakarta
In The Newscare

Jakarta’s Sick Lack Palliative Care, One NGO Offers Relief

by [email protected] December 9, 2016May 22, 2025
Damascus, before the war arrived ...
In The Newssyria

In Damascus, War And Shame Conquer Love

by [email protected] December 9, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newsindia

Spotlight: India’s Big Bet On New Banknotes

by [email protected] December 9, 2016May 22, 2025
Welcome to the Matrix
Futurefrance

With IFTTT, Your Whole Life Can Be Programmed Like A Computer

by Worldcrunch December 8, 2016May 22, 2025
Screenshot
In The Newscolombia

Colombian FARC Rebels Take Mannequin Challenge

by Alidad Vassigh December 8, 2016May 22, 2025
New head of Environmental Protection Agency Scott Pruitt
In The Newsunited states

Spotlight: Climate Change Under Donald Trump

by [email protected] December 8, 2016May 21, 2025
Trump and Gen. Mattis in Fayetteville, NC, on Dec. 6
Eyes on the U.S.united states

Trump And His Generals, Major Military Weight In Next White House

by [email protected] December 8, 2016May 22, 2025
An agricultural project in Cuba
Geopoliticscolombia

Cuba Faces A Big Environmental Question After Castro’s Death

by Alidad Vassigh December 7, 2016May 20, 2025
Locked?
In The Newsgermany

Privacy Violated, When Your Life Is Exposed And You’re The Last To Know

by Tanja Hofbauer December 7, 2016May 21, 2025
In The Newsunited states

Spotlight: 75 Years After Pearl Harbor

by [email protected] December 7, 2016May 22, 2025
Putin at a Russian military training exercise in the Orenburg region
In The Newsvladimir putin

Vladimir Putin: Enough With The West’s Imaginary Threats

by Giacomo December 7, 2016May 22, 2025
Workers at a solar power plant in China
In The Newsfrance

The Sun May Be Setting On Solar Energy Boom

by Worldcrunch December 6, 2016May 24, 2025
Tea harvest in the rain in Assam
In The Newsindia

Spotlight: The Cult Of Amma

by [email protected] December 6, 2016May 22, 2025
Priest of the ruined Immaculate Church in Al Hamdaniyah
In The Newssyria

Iraqi Christians Who Fled ISIS Invasion Return Home

by [email protected] December 5, 2016May 22, 2025
Woman near Sharm El Sheik, Egypt
In The Newsegypt

Why Egyptian Women Don’t Breastfeed: Bad Maternity Leave, Public Shame

by Worldcrunch December 5, 2016May 22, 2025
President Pena Nieto in Mexico City on Nov. 9
Economydonald trump

A Post-NAFTA Plan B For Trump Era? Mexico Must Get Serious

by Alidad Vassigh December 5, 2016May 20, 2025
Orban in Budapest
In The Newsputin

Liberty v. Nation, Anatomy Of Europe’s Democratic Recession

by Worldcrunch December 5, 2016May 20, 2025
Eye on the Roman Coliseum
In The Newseuropean union

European Union, Risks From Every Corner Of The Continent

by Tanja Hofbauer December 5, 2016May 24, 2025
In The Newsitaly

Austria And Italy, Mixed Message

by Worldcrunch December 5, 2016May 21, 2025
'No' supporters protesting in Rome on Nov. 27
In The Newsitaly

After Brexit And Trump, Wave Of Rebellion Triumphs In Italy

by Worldcrunch December 5, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newsitaly

His Referendum Soundly Defeated, Renzi Resigns

by [email protected] December 5, 2016May 21, 2025
Shulz has his say
In The Newsgermany

Can Martin Schulz Conquer German Politics?

by Bertrand Hauger December 3, 2016May 24, 2025
A pro-Assad protester in Warsaw last month
In The Newssyria

Trump, Just The President Assad Has Been Waiting For

by [email protected] December 2, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newselection

Spotlight: Crises Of Democracy, Pick Your Poison

by Jeff Israely December 2, 2016May 20, 2025
In The Newspolitics

François Hollande, The President That Never Was

by Alidad Vassigh December 2, 2016May 22, 2025
Anti-Renzi protest in Rome on Nov. 27
In The Newsitaly

European Democracies And The Referendum Trap

by Worldcrunch December 2, 2016May 22, 2025
In The Newsart

Fidel’s Unfinished Dream — Massive Art School Is Metaphor For Cuba

by Alidad Vassigh December 1, 2016May 20, 2025
In The Newseconomy

Oil Deal Marks New Era For OPEC

by [email protected] December 1, 2016May 20, 2025
In The Newsjournalism

Charlie Hebdo Goes To Germany

by [email protected] December 1, 2016May 22, 2025
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