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Food / Travel

Ghosts International: 11 Haunting Sites You Can Actually Visit This Halloween

With Halloween and Day of the Dead arriving, here are the would-be ghosts of documented evil and bloodshed from the past.

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Israel-Palestine War

“My Prayers Weren’t Enough” — Watching Gaza Burn From Abroad

In 19 years in Gaza, she always felt lost in her mind, body and even time. She was desperate to escape abroad, and made one attempt after another to find a way out. Eventually she did, for better or worse.

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Future Society

Re;Memory — A New AI Program Makes Talking To The Dead Come Alive

There are many frontiers being crossed by AI lately, sparking debate and anxiety. But now, we’re entering strange, new territory: an algorithm that lets bereaved family members communicate with deceased loved ones in the most realistic of ways. Yet it comes with very real and complicated risks.

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Society Weird

Caça Fantasmas: Brazil’s Hi-Tech Ghost Hunters Turn Catholic Mysticism Inside Out

The rise in popular culture of ghost hunting has had a big but strange effect in Brazil. YouTubers and bloggers aim to create a bridge between Brazilian popular spiritism and American ghost-hunting.

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In The News

From The Sea Of Japan To The Mediterranean, The Risk Of Leaving

-Analysis- A boat is drifting along the coast. There’s no captain manning it, no visible passengers on the derelict wooden vessel. The “ghost ship” is missing its rotor blade, making it look like it’s facing the choppy waters on its own. Eventually, it washes up on a Japanese beach. In its hull, eight bodies — […]

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Geopolitics

In Moscow Airport, Hunting For Edward Snowden

MOSCOW – Honestly? Stanislav opens his eyes wide. “I swear!” he exclaims, “I gave him water, a glass of water to be precise. He often passes by to go to the smoking area by gate 31.” That is where the flights for Italy depart. We station ourselves by the smoking area for almost an hour, […]

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