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My Kids, Koran And Badminton Racket, Baggage Of A Syrian Refugee

Mustafa Awad, from Idlib, is a national badminton champion.
Mustafa Awad, from Idlib, is a national badminton champion. Iason Athanasiadis

This is part of a Syria Deeply series “Bags and Belongings,” in which we ask refugees what they packed in their bags and what they left behind. Here we meet Mustafa Awad, a Syrian badminton coach from the northwestern city of Idlib who recently arrived in Athens with his wife and three children. Read the first installment here. ATHENS — We come from Idlib, a city that was once so beautiful it was nicknamed the Green, but is now known as Red Idlib from the amount of blood spilled over it. We love peace and quiet, but the war forced […]

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Egyptian Women Kickstart Taekwondo Training After Olympic Win

Hedaya Malak winning bronze at the Rio Olympics
Hedaya Malak winning bronze at the Rio Olympics Dotemirates/Wikimedia Commons

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Food / Travel Smarter Cities

Sustainable Tourism In Western Sahara Is Driven By The Wind

Camel exhibition in Dakhla
Camel exhibition in Dakhla Saharauiak

Rolling sand dunes and ascetic silence. Kites and boards flying over lagoon waters. And tomato farms. It’s Dakhla, the windy Moroccan city of sustainability.

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Ideas Smarter Cities Society

A City Should Force You Off Your Arse

Walking in Buenos Aires
Walking in Buenos Aires (M) zaqi

After hundreds of years of reducing our physical activity with the help of machines, we now find we need to move to remain healthy. A friendly city is one that forces you to walk more.

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Geopolitics Society

The Bollywood Kiss Heard ‘Round The World

India's Emraan Hashmi and Pakistan's Humaima Malick's locking lips in "Raja Natwarlal."
India's Emraan Hashmi and Pakistan's Humaima Malick's locking lips in "Raja Natwarlal." UTV Motion Pictures - screenshot

India and Pakistan are arch enemies whose ongoing Kashmir conflict shows no signs of ending. So will the film kiss between a beloved Pakistani actress and an India heartthrob be censored?

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Society

World Cup Fever Leads To Arrest Of Colombian Rebel

Juggling in the jungle
Juggling in the jungle Worldcrunch montage

BOGOTA — Blame it on Rio. Colombia officials arrested one of the country’s most sought-after leftist rebels after noticing an enormous satellite dish he had installed on his jungle hideout so he could watch the World Cup, Spanish news agency EFE and Colombian media reported. No civil war was going to deprive the 15-year veteran […]

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Society

Magnus Carlsen, A Chess Child Prodigy Grows Up

New world chess champion Magnus Carlsen
New world chess champion Magnus Carlsen Frans Peeters

Long hailed as the future of chess, the Norwegian-born grand master is now, at the ripe age of 23, the reigning world champion. The next question: will he be the greatest of all time?

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Society

Women Boxers Fight Prejudices In Afghanistan

Afghan women in a boxing club in Kabul
Afghan women in a boxing club in Kabul Ahmad Massoud

KABUL — Boxing is Shigofa Haidari’s passion. But in Afghanistan, that means practicing three days a week in Kabul’s Ghazi Stadium, where the Taliban used to organize public executions. Haidari is wearing a light headscarf today. An injury prevents her from training, but she is happy to watch her friends go through all the basic […]

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Tough Times In Yemen: Economic Crisis Leaves Nothing Untouched

Facing economic meltdown in Sana'a's old city
Facing economic meltdown in Sana'a's old city Gabe Craven/ZUMA

SANA’A — Antar Al-Aldharij pins his opponent down on the mat without using a dagger or a rifle. Yemen“s national judo champion, who trains every afternoon in a gym just outside of the capital, Sana’a, just needs the strength of his arms and bare hands. Al-Aldharij and his teamates share the small room of just […]

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Women’s Ice Hockey Team Drops Gloves (And More) To Help Find New Sponsors

Let her play again
Let her play again

The Catalan Igualada Hockey Club has long been one of the best ice hockey clubs in Spain, both the men’s and women’s teams. But due to a recent lack of sponsorship and a cut in subsidies caused by the ongoing Spanish economic crisis, the company decided it could only keep the men’s squad. The women’s […]

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Geopolitics

A Giant Hole In Brazil’s Anti-Terrorism Policy For World Cup, Olympics

Time to gear up
Time to gear up Nichelle Griffiths

SAO PAULO – Even though it’s getting ready to host the World Cup next year and the Summer Olympic Games in 2016, Brazil still has no specific law for fighting terrorism. But specialists, who ask not to be identified, say that the country’s neutral position in recent international conflicts does not assure that it is […]

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Society

The Tragic Fall Of Oscar Pistorius, A Modern-Day Icarus

Oscar Pistorius at the 2012 London Paralympics
Oscar Pistorius at the 2012 London Paralympics Chris Eason

The Greek tragedy featured man-made wings melting under the sun. In South Africa, the bladerunner may have gotten too close to the gods as well.

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Geopolitics

Olympic Barriers: Will This Be The First-Ever Woman (And Muslim) IOC Chief?

"To see a woman here would be innapropriate," said Baron Pierre de Coubertin...
"To see a woman here would be innapropriate," said Baron Pierre de Coubertin... Atr1992

Nawal El Moutawakel was ignored by Morocco when competing in the 1984 Olympics — until gold made her a national hero. Now she’s looking to clear another hurdle or two.

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Society

Merkel Urges Top Gay German Soccer Player To Come Out Of The Closet

FLUTER, DIE WELT, DEUTSCHE WELLE (Germany), ESPN (USA) Worldcrunch No name, no club – nothing that would point to his identity – that was what Fluter journalist Adrian Bechtold had to promise a professional Bundesliga soccer player in return for talking about something that is still absolutely taboo in the top soccer league of Germany […]

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If You’re An Olympian Busted For Doping, This Is What To Do

RAI, LA REPUBBLICA (Italy) Worldcrunch It has become an Olympic tradition for an athlete or two or three to test positive for banned substances during or after the Games. Also traditional are the subsequent heartfelt denials, stone-faced defiance and/or mysterious disappearance of said suspected performance-enhanced athlete. This year, however, we have a new response: The […]

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