February 21 – February 28, 2025
Category: In The News
February 7 – February 13, 2025
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Worldcrunch Magazine #117 — Madness!
February 7 – February 13, 2025
February 3 – February 9, 2025
Janurary 27 – February 2, 2025
Janurary 20 – January 26, 2025
Europeans expected to deal with the return of Donald Trump, but now face both Trump and Elon Musk, who continue to make provocative statements. Yet the EU is divided, with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni going her own way and positioning herself as Trump’s main interlocutor in Europe.
Janurary 13 – January 19, 2025
With the unpredictable Donald Trump returning to the White House in January, what will global politics be like in 2025? In addition to major issues like the war in Ukraine, the conflicts in the Middle East and China, there’s another nagging question: What about Europe?
December 23 – December 29, 2024
👋 Hej!* Welcome to Tuesday, where Australian authorities investigate the motives of the gunmen responsible for the Bondi mass shooting, eight more people are reported dead in new U.S. strikes off the coast of Latin America and today’s quiz question follows a Brazilian storm. Meanwhile, our latest Paris Calling episode features Nanjing-based Chinese novelist Lu […]
👋 Merhaba!* Welcome to Monday, where Australia reels from its worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years, far-right José Antonio Kast is elected president of Chile, and today’s quiz question has a Christmas feel. Meanwhile, Carlo Petrini in La Stampa unpacks the human, biological, or cultural significance of Italian cuisine’s recognition as UNESCO heritage. [*Turkish] […]
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Worldcrunch Magazine #111— Next Syria
December 16 – December 22, 2024
December 9 – December 15, 2024
December 2 – December 8, 2024
November 25 – December 1, 2024
November 18 – November 24, 2024
In more than a year since the Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalated, news of bombing has become a habit in Lebanon. In an essay for the Beirut-based independent media Daraj, Lebanese journalist Pascale Sawma discusses how war has become “normal” — and what that means for her and her work.
Pyongyang has just ratified its new defense pact with Moscow. North Korean soldiers are deployed near Kursk, in an unprecedented engagement that marks a reversal of Kim Jong-un’s foreign policy.
November 11 – November 17, 2024
Stay tuned on this page for Worldcrunch’s real-time, multilingual coverage of the U.S. election 2024.
November 4 – November 10, 2024
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Worldcrunch Magazine #104— Dementia
October 28 – November 3, 2024
October 21 – October 27, 2024
October 14 – October 20, 2024
Reporter Daniel-Dylan Böhmer of Die Welt gained exclusive access to key Taliban officials in Kabul, and visited the heavily armed security forces at the airport, to get a sense of what Afghanistan’s future may hold.
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Worldcrunch Magazine #101— Unleashed
October 7 – October 13, 2024
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Worldcrunch Magazine #100— Escalation
September 30 – October 6, 2024
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Worldcrunch Magazine #99 — New War
September 23 – September 29, 2024
September 9 – September 15, 2024
? Ahoj!* Welcome to Thursday, where Boris Johnson faces rising calls to resign, an ex Syrian colonel is convicted in a landmark torture trial, and the U.S. finds loopholes in the Gruyère cheese label. We also mark 10 years since the Costa Concordia disaster off the coast of Tuscany. [*Czech] SIGN UP This is […]
September 2 – September 8, 2024
Following the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov near Paris on Aug. 24, independent Russian-language media Important Stories looks into the claims Western authorities have made against Durov since the messaging application was launched in 2013, always keep its door open to the internet’s darkest corners.
Summer Special – Innovation Edition – August 26- September 1, 2024
Summer Special – Travel Edition – August 12 – August 18, 2024
The Ukrainian attack on the strategically important Kursk region has taken Russia’s military and residents by surprise. But experts doubt whether the operation makes sense for Ukraine’s depleted military forces.
The leaders of three big Latin American powers, Colombia, Brazil and Mexico, have shown they believe keeping a fellow socialist in power is more important than respecting the votes of millions of ordinary Venezuelans who chose freedom over socialism.
Foreign condemnations and sanctions will not force Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro to abandon power after losing the recent presidential elections. The army could, but with a security system designed by Cuban advisers, it is firmly under regime control.
August 5 – August 11, 2024
July 29 – August 4, 2024