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PARIS — Our crack staff of serious but seriously subjective journalists, translators and editors have chosen what we believe to be the year’s most engaging and provocative Worldcrunch stories.

America And Us, Trump’s Victory Is Very Bad News For The World

FRANCE — Les Echos, Nov. 21

Panama Papers: Link Between Magnitsky Probe And Putin’s Cellist Pal

GERMANY — Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 4

Letter From A Turkish Prison, When A Journalist Writes About Erdogan

TURKEY — Le Monde, Jan. 14

The German Detective Hunting Down The Last Nazis In Brazil

BRAZIL — Folha de S. Paulo, April 8

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Flaws And All, The World Will Miss Barack Obama

GERMANY — Die Welt, Nov. 4

Botticelli to Body Shaming: How Our Ideal Of Beauty Went Awry

ARGENTINA — Clarin, March 28

At Former Soviet Nuclear Test Site, “Best Not To Take Souvenirs’

KAZAKHSTAN — Kommersant, Sept. 23

How To Buy Antiquities Looted By ISIS From An Italian Mobster

ITALY — La Stampa, Oct. 19

Brexit, The Tough Lessons Europe Must Learn

FRANCE — Le Monde, June 24

Trump Victory: We’ll Never Talk About Globalization The Same Way Again

UNITED STATES — Le Figaro, Nov. 13

A Woman’s Sacred Right To Wear Shorts — Or A Headscarf

TURKEY — Cumhuriyet, Sept. 30

Little Britain, Petite Europe — Lost In This Big Bad World

FRANCE — Les Echos, June 28

Poland’s Abortion Battle, Why Free Women Are Done With Weak Men

POLAND — Gazeta Wyborcza, Oct. 27

Muslim And Hipster, Why “Mipster” Fashion Is Trending

SWITZERLAND — Le Temps, June 4

Time To Choose Between Oil Wealth And Saving The Planet

ARGENTINA — Clarin, July 21

A Father’s Perilous Hunt For His Sons, Lost To Syria And ISIS

GERMANY — Die Welt, April 4

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