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The World Wants To Know Who Is Kamala Harris — And If She Can Win

As the vice president is now virtually assured to face Donald Trump on November 5, questions arise on what her election to U.S. president would mean for the rest of the world.

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Bravo Italy For World’s Strictest Vaccine Mandate – But Where’s Mario?

Italy’s new “Super Green Pass” is great, but where’s “Super Mario”? Such a sweeping measure, which requires workers to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, risks encroaching on the fundamental right to work. It’s necessary right now, but also needs Prime Minister Mario Draghi to explain why.

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Nuance, Truth And Twitter — Q&A With La Stampa’s Anna Masera

In the second installment of a new series of articles to get to better know journalists and journalism around the world, Worldcrunch spoke to Anna Masera, public editor of top Italian daily La Stampa, about the differences between Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi, foreign media’s focus on the pope and engaging with citizens via social […]

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Geopolitics

Italian Journalist Freed After Five Months As Hostage In Syria

LA STAMPA (Italy) Worldcrunch ROME — Domenico Quirico, a veteran war correspondent for the Italian daily La Stampa, has been freed after five months as a hostage in Syria. Quirico, 62, who was released Sunday together with a Belgian teacher, Pier Piccinin, was kidnapped by Syrian rebels during his fourth trip to the country to […]

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Canary Islands Up In Arms As Oil Drilling Looms Off Scenic Shores

LANZAROTE – The photograph looks like something out of a glossy tourist campaign: a surfer, board under his arms, coming out of the turquoise waters that lap against the fine, white sand. Nothing out of the ordinary, seeing as the shot was taken on the island of Fuerteventura, famous around Europe for its natural beauty […]

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