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Watch: OneShot, Guerrillero Heroico – Alberto Diaz Korda

Watch: OneShot, Guerrillero Heroico - Alberto Diaz Korda

On this day 90 years ago, one of the world’s most famous revolution figures was born. OneShot commemorates Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s birthday with a photo taken at the funeral for the victims of the La Coubre explosion, on March 4, 1960 — a picture that stresses the intensity of his gaze and poise and that is recognized worldwide. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pm7ca1HxE3s expand=1] Guerrillero Heroico — (Alberto Diaz Korda/OneShot) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot: [rebelmouse-image 27068863 original_size=”320×320″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068864 original_size=”174×174″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068865 original_size=”128×128″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068866 original_size=”227×227″ […]

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The World Cup, Not Quite A Mirror Of Our World

Saudi Arabia players during official training before opening match of the World Cup 2018
Saudi Arabia players during official training before opening match of the World Cup 2018 Marcelo Machado De Melo/Fotoarena/ZUMA

The global soccer competition features teams from a fascinating mix of developed and developing nations. Not represented are the world’s two leading economies: the U.S. and China.

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Italy Is Closing The Borders, And Nobody Can Blame Them

Demonstration against the closure of Italian ports in Rome on June 11
Demonstration against the closure of Italian ports in Rome on June 11 Leo Claudio De Petris/Pacific Press/ZUMA

Finger pointing isn’t going to help Italy solve its migration problems. What it needs is help, and for the EU to stop dilly-dallying. A view from Berlin.

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Petite Fleur

Petite Fleur

What would be a good soundtrack to this picture of my then four-year-old daughter Cécile, posing in a flower market in southern France? Though I’m more partial to classical music, Sidney Bechet’s “Petite Fleur” seems a better fit than, say, Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” …

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Women’s Rights Hangover: In Mumbai, Male-Only Bars Still Exist

Man bartending at a famous pub in South Mumbai
Man bartending at a famous pub in South Mumbai Shashank Mehrotra/De-Barred Elements

MUMBAI — As far as Indian cities go, Mumbai is probably the most free-spirited of them all. The streets are bustling till the wee hours, the people are generally more friendly (believe me — I’m from New Delhi) and, as a woman, I feel safe when I go out to restaurants and bars. Provided they let me in, that is. On what was a normal Thursday evening in Lower Parel, a colleague and I decided to go for a walk after work before we headed home. Passing a resto-bar, we decided to duck in for a quick drink. The establishment, […]

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Who Said That? Words From New Italian Leaders Echo Dark Past

Matteo Salvini walking into a day of government meetings
Matteo Salvini walking into a day of government meetings Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press/ZUMA

Rhetoric coming from anti-establishment Five Star Movement and League evoke the words of historic tyrants like King Louis XIV, Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini.

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Power Couple: Trump And Kim Make History, But What’s Next?

U.S. President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un after their luncheon meeting in Singapore on June, 11
U.S. President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un after their luncheon meeting in Singapore on June, 11 Kevin Lim/The Straits Times/Wire/ZUMA

-Analysis- With smiles and handshakes and words of mutual warmth, President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un entered the history books in Singapore on Tuesday as the first sitting leaders of their countries ever to meet face to face. Whether their summit turns out to be a truly historic event depends much more on what comes next. The United States and the world community have tried before to rein in North Korea. Three recent presidents were parties to agreements in which North Korea pledged to halt its nuclear activity. In each case, the commitments crumbled, the promises proved meaningless, […]

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Paving Paradise? In Poland, Calls To Block Forest Road Construction

Poles march to save their primeval forest
Poles march to save their primeval forest Jan A. Nicolas/DPA/ZUMA

-OpEd- WARSAW — The Narewkowska trail runs through the middle of one of Europe’s last remaining protected nature reserves, Poland“s Białowieża Forest. But now, the trail is slated to be paved over to become an automobile roadway. If plans ultimately move forward to pave the 24-mile trail, the entire forest would become vulnerable to industrial […]

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Some Hard Truths About California’s Water Woes

A drought alert sign in Fresno, California on Sept. 11, 2014
A drought alert sign in Fresno, California on Sept. 11, 2014 Ringo Chiu/Wire/ZUMA

The populous Golden State will need more than short-term emergency funding to solve its groundwater contamination and depletion problems.

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Watch: OneShot — Thích Quảng Đức’s Saigon Self-Immolation

Watch: OneShot — Thích Quảng Đức's Saigon Self-Immolation

Our new OneShot commemorates Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức’s self-immolation, which took place exactly 55 years ago, on June 11, 1963. The images of this dramatic moment by Associated Press photographer, Malcom W. Browne, won both the World Press Photo of the Year and the Pulitzer Prize. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/gaFZvscGsM8 expand=1] Thích Quảng Đức’s self-immolation, June 11, 1963 (© Malcolm W. Browne/Associated Press/Public Domain) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot:

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North Korean Defectors Watch Summit With Hope, Trepidation

Reopened communication channel between North and South Korea
Reopened communication channel between North and South Korea Ryu Seung Il/ZUMA

SEOUL – They are the simplest of dreams. To see familiar streets once more. Or walk along a river at the center of childhood memories. Or throw a big party with wine. These dreams belong to people who risked everything to flee North Korea and then, as some of the most high-profile defectors, spoke out about the rights abuses and repression of Kim Jong Un’s regime. But now, ahead of Tuesday’s summit between Kim and President Donald Trump in Singapore, the defectors are considering a question that until recently seemed foolish to ask: Could they one day return home? Such […]

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Another Consequence Of Venezuela Crisis: A Sex Trafficking Boom

Prostitutes in the marketplace of La Merced, Mexico City, Mexico
Prostitutes in the marketplace of La Merced, Mexico City, Mexico Peggy Peattie/U-T San Diego/ZUMA

The economic collapse has created opportunities for Colombian gangs to exploit Venezuelan women and transport them abroad.

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Cutting-Edge Fear: Technologies That Should Scare Us

A manager of the BYD company tries the facial recognition in a 'Yungui' train in Yinchuan, China on January 10
A manager of the BYD company tries the facial recognition in a 'Yungui' train in Yinchuan, China on January 10 Wang Peng/Xinhua/ZUMA

Computers that can perfectly mimic the human voice? Hyper sensitive surveillance cameras? Advances like these are already a reality, and need to be regulated now.

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Saving Caribbean Coral Reef With A High-Tech Hand

Mapping coral reefs from up high
Mapping coral reefs from up high Carnegie Airborne Observatory

Carnegie Airborne Observatory researchers map coral reefs in Caribbean to aid with post-hurricane reconstruction.

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Watch: OneShot — Rafael Nadal, King Of Clay

Watch: OneShot — Rafael Nadal, King Of Clay

He’s back! Check out our OneShot celebrating the King of Clay. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/F9QajPhHzvQ expand=1] The King of Clay, June 2 (© Chen Yichen/Xinhua/ZUMA) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot:

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What Donald Gets Wrong About Deal-Making On Diplomacy Front

Donald Trump preaching his policies to the masses
Donald Trump preaching his policies to the masses Yin Bogu/Xinhua/ZUMA

The U.S. president talks lots about the ‘art of the deal.’ But when it comes to diplomatic negotiations, his liar’s-poker tactics are seriously misplaced.

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Austrian Wunderkind? Kurz Eyes Pivotal Role In Geopolitics

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Brussels in December
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Brussels in December Wiktor Dabkowski/DPA/ZUMA

-OpEd- BERLIN — With his most recent visit to Vienna, made on Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin has now met Austria’s 32-year-old Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for the second time this year. Meanwhile, Richard Grenell — U.S. ambassador to Berlin and a Donald Trump confidant — has called Kurz a “rock star” in a recent interview […]

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From Colombia, A Passionate Defense Of Casting A Blank Vote

Voting in Bogota. Second round is scheduled for June 17.
Voting in Bogota. Second round is scheduled for June 17. Jhon Paz/Xinhua/ZUMA

The choice of two radical candidates in Colombia’s second round of presidential elections does not oblige people to vote for one or the other. Let them cast a blank vote.

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Watch: OneShot — D-Day, Into The Jaws Of Death

Watch: OneShot — D-Day, Into The Jaws Of Death

On June 6, 1944, WWII Allied Forces launched a combined naval, air and land assault on Nazi-occupied France. To commemorate the 74th anniversary of the D-Day landings, OneShot chose this iconic shot by U.S. Coast Guard photographer Robert F. Sargent. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/P4wfLGV0nwA expand=1] OneShot — Into The Jaws Of Death (© Robert F. Sargent) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot: [rebelmouse-image 27068863 original_size=”320×320″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068864 original_size=”174×174″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068865 original_size=”128×128″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068866 original_size=”227×227″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068867 original_size=”256×256″ expand=1]

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Sunless In Seattle

Sunless In Seattle

We were in Seattle just about a month before a certain movie hit the screens. I slept through it all.

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Baguettes In Beijing? Chinese Investors Eating Up French Farm Land

Coveted fields in Chevagnes, France
Coveted fields in Chevagnes, France https://www.google.fr/maps/@46.6088151,3.5639087,3a,66.3y,345.09h,106.95t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGwIO7Lw5MkSqvzDGOUXQGg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

A Chinese company recently bought nearly 1,000 hectares of French farmland. Pourquoi? ‘To put French cereals on Chinese tables,’ its owner says.

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Mohamed Salah, The Soccer Star Inspiring Egypt’s Youth

Salah fan In Nagrig, Egypt
Salah fan In Nagrig, Egypt Gehad Hamdy/DPA/ZUMA

CAIRO — In the year of Mohamed Salah’s rise to fame as one of the world’s best soccer players, his every move and success has been well documented across the globe, no more so than in his native Egypt. Here, the cult of personality around him runs much deeper, hitting at the heart of struggles […]

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Watch: Oneshot — Happy Birthday Norma Jeane

Watch: Oneshot — Happy Birthday Norma Jeane

OneShot — Happy Birthday Ms. Monroe OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video.

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Spain To Senegal To Brazil, ‘Other’ 1968 Movements To Remember

Troops at a requiem mass for Edson Luís in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 4, 1968
Troops at a requiem mass for Edson Luís in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on April 4, 1968 Correio da Manhã

PARIS — Political conflict and social movements around the world in 1968 made it a year for the history books. The 50th anniversary of several signature episodes are being marked throughout this year, from the Prague Spring and monthlong French student uprising of May “68, to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy […]

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The Mercantilist: Why Trump Economics Are Stuck In 17th Century

Trump signs the new tariffs
Trump signs the new tariffs Michael Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump often seems as though he’s stuck in the “80s. But maybe the better comparison is to the 1680s, not the Reagan era. Consider his announcement Thursday of new tariffs on steel and aluminum imported from the European Union, Canada and Mexico. These countries not only supply about half of our imports of these metals; they are also among our closest allies. Astonishingly, the White House claims that alienating these important military allies is necessary “to protect America’s national security.” These trade policies, and the supposed rationale behind them, bear an uncanny resemblance to classical mercantilism. […]

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The Female Factor In Senegal’s Fishing Crisis

Women process fish for later distribution and consumption in Senegal
Women process fish for later distribution and consumption in Senegal Ania Freindorf/ZUMA

On the coast of Senegal, fish stocks have fallen 80% in the past year alone. The women fish processors of the region have been hit hardest, with consequences across society.

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Musical Family Portrait

Musical Family Portrait

This family was looking at musicians playing outside the beautiful Jain temple of Ranakpur, in western India. Only after pressing the shutter did I realize the kid had noticed me, and was smiling at my camera.

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If Italy Crashes, Germany And The Whole EU Will Pay The Price

Ominous Rome
Ominous Rome Bertrand Hauger

-Analysis- BERLIN — While Brussels is palavering over a plastic tax that will never materialize, dark clouds are gathering over Europe. Right now, in plain view, the European Union is sliding straight into the next (and potentially deeper) euro crisis. The chaos in Italy — which holds the world’s third-largest public debt, totaling 2.3 trillion […]

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Watch: OneShot, May ’68 — The Police

Watch: OneShot, May '68 — The Police

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the May “68 uprising in France, a political and cultural touchstone in the West and one of the most memorable confrontations of the Sixties. OneShot has produced a series of videos with the French public audiovisual institute INA from their photographic archives of the “May “68” events. This episode shows some of the 3,000 riot police officers called in to tackle the student riots in the Latin Quarter on May 6, 1968. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/LZ-NpdTUlbE expand=1] May 68, Paris – The police (©INA/OneShot) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of […]

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Don Quixote’s Nightmare

Don Quixote's Nightmare

Two peaceful windmills in the Spanish countryside? For Miguel de Cervantes” colorful character Don Quixote (a favorite of mine), these would be ferocious giants — and he would promptly proceed to attack them!

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The New Face Of Populism: Giuseppe Conte, An Italian Robespierre?

Giuseppe Conte addressing a press conference in Rome on May 23
Giuseppe Conte addressing a press conference in Rome on May 23 Alberto Lingria/Xinhua/ZUMA

The political novice set to become Italy’s next prime minister has called himself the ‘defense lawyer’ of the people. While Conte’s words mirror the aspirations of today’s anti-establishment parties, they also have deeper roots in Western history.

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Watch: Oneshot, May ’68 — Waiting In Line

Watch: Oneshot, May '68 — Waiting In Line

This month marks the 50th anniversary of May “68 uprising in France, a political and cultural touchstone in the West and one of the most memorable confrontations of the Sixties. OneShot has produced a series of videos with the French public audiovisual institute INA from their photographic archives of the “May “68” events. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/nVTelopE8_k expand=1] May 68, Paris – Banks (©INA/OneShot) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot: [rebelmouse-image 27068863 original_size=”320×320″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068864 original_size=”174×174″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068865 original_size=”128×128″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068866 original_size=”227×227″ expand=1][rebelmouse-image 27068867 original_size=”256×256″ expand=1]

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A Once Frugal Nation, China Is Getting Run Over By Consumerism

A shopping street in Wenzhou, China
A shopping street in Wenzhou, China Fabien Lelard

-Analysis- BEIJING — The “invisible poor” has become a new online — and ironic — moniker in China. It describes young people who earn more than 10,000 RMB ($1,570) a month, a considerable income for most Chinese, but who are also big spenders. They wear $500 suits, get regular facials, drink top-class Chilean wine, and […]

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Yarmouk, A Palestinian Tragedy Plays Out In Syria

Yarmouk on April 24
Yarmouk on April 24 Children of Syria

The Yarmouk Camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus has been the site of a grueling “zero-hour” offensive since last month.

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How Should Medellín Deal With ‘Escobar Tourism’?

Pablo Escobar neighborhood in Medellín
Pablo Escobar neighborhood in Medellín El Tiempo/GDA/ZUMA

Medellín authorities want tourists and youngsters to be mindful of the victims of drug trafficking, not view mobsters as merely rogues or ‘Robin Hoods.’

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Postcard From The Korean DMZ, The Last Cold War Border

Watching over the DMZ from South Korea on DMZ, South Korea. Inter Korean summit held on April 26
Watching over the DMZ from South Korea on DMZ, South Korea. Inter Korean summit held on April 26 Ryu Seung-Il/ZUMA

Bill Clinton once called it ‘the most terrifying place on earth.’ A no-man’s land with barbed wire and robot sentries, the area between the two Koreas has also become an unlikely wildlife refuge.

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Drug Wars Or Defense, What Role For Military In Latin America?

Drug bust in Buenos Aires
Drug bust in Buenos Aires Claudio Santisteban/ZUMA

-Analysis- BUENOS AIRES — The end of the Cold War ushered in a new phase in military relations between the United States and Latin America. As the region’s dictatorships gave way to more democratic systems, and border disputes waned, the Pentagon, starting in the early 1990s, urged Latin American governments to restore civilian control over […]

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Why Big Tech Hasn’t Joined The Crypto-Revolution

Time to let go, man
Time to let go, man Mint Images/Mint/ZUMA

Internet giants have now started flirting with decentralization, to try and replace the so-far failed hopes of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

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Crime In Mexico, Getting Used To A Warped Idea Of Normal

Children decorating chalk outlines in Oaxaca, Mexico
Children decorating chalk outlines in Oaxaca, Mexico Edward A. Ornelas/San Antonio Express-News/ZUMA

The state of insecurity in Mexico has gone beyond isolated remedies like tweaking laws or reforming agencies. It is so ingrained that people are getting acclimated.

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Oui To EU, But Macron Is Pushing European Integration Too Far

Macron in Aachen on May 9
Macron in Aachen on May 9 Henning Kaiser/ZUMA

-OpEd- PARIS — At a time when nationalism is coming back to life across the continent, the pro-European activism of Emmanuel Macron is to be applauded. The emergence of a new sheen of European sovereignty, which the French president regularly calls for, would allow commercial, environmental, banking, digital or migration issues to be dealt with […]

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