“More Time” Needed For Gaza Ceasefire, Macron’s Historic UK Visit, Pamplona’s Bulls

👋 здраво* Welcome to Tuesday, where Israel says Gaza ceasefire can be reached but may take more time, Emmanuel Macron aims to rekindle France-UK relations, and Milan’s opera-goers better pay attention to today’s quiz question. Meanwhile, Caterina Soffici in Italian daily La Stampa about what our four-legged friends can teach us about adapting to climate […]

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Dynasty’s Ending To A Basketball First — On This Day In History March 2

The fall of an empire, the birth of a nation, and a basketball milestone.

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Berlin To Texas, When A Foreigner Gets Invited To Joe Rogan’s Podcast

Joe Rogan is considered America’s king of podcasters and the voice of hyper-masculinity in the United States. His support for Donald Trump is considered by some to have been decisive in the presidential election. But what’s behind this world of hyper-masculine podcast bros? For Die Zeit, Berlin-based author Norman Ohler writes about his experience as a guest on Rogan’s show.

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End Of Roe v. Wade Is Major Blow For Prenatal Genetic Screening

For families learning their child will be born with a debilitating condition, new legal issues create additional trauma.

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To California Or Canada? Crossing State And National Borders For Abortions

Among the most immediate effects of the overturning of Roe v. Wade is that women who find themselves in states where abortion is outlawed will travel to where it is legal. But that of course requires the right information and economic means to do so.

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How India’s Hindu-Muslim Strife Could Help Trump In Texas

What is happening in India is casting a long shadow on the forthcoming U.S. elections.

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Extra! Texas On ‘Weather Steroids’

At least four people have been killed in Texas over the past three days as the state has been hit by a series of storms. The Houston Chronicle described Wednesday what it called a region “on weather steroids.” In Mexico, at least 13 people were also killed as a tornado struck the border town of […]

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At U.S.-Mexico Border, Children’s Lives On The Line

LA JOYA — Juan Castro is trying to keep it together as he tells me this story, but the tears well up in his eyes. “There was this 11-year-old girl from Guatemala who had been raped. I had to ask her how, where, by whom, why and every single detail that could help build her […]

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French Physicists Explore The Science Of A Cowboy’s Lasso

How does it twirl? Why does it loop? An American cowboy might take it all for granted. But a French team has explored how the laws of physics can explain this common thread.

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Iran’s Deadline, Spacecraft Launches, Cairo Roller Derby

Monday, November 24, 2014 DEADLINE DAY FOR IRAN NUCLEAR DEALLast-minute talks in Vienna hold little hope that Iran will reach an agreement with world powers today, the deadline, about the country’s nuclear program and the lifting of economic sanctions. U.S. officials admitted yesterday that negotiations might be extended for a second time, The New York […]

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Ebola in U.S., Karadzic’s defense, September farewells

01.10.2014 BRITAIN BEGINS AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISIS Britain’s Royal Air Force has joined the anti-ISIS coalition, launching its first airstrikes last night against the jihadist group in Iraq, before U.S.-led forces targeted fighters in villages near the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani, not far from the Turkish border. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby warned yesterday […]

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Mom’s Best Friend: Suspicious Parents Now Can Rent Drug-Sniffing Dog

An enterprising German trains his pooch to become the country’s first dope-busting dog-for-hire.

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Small Texas Town Hit By 16 Twisters In Deadly Tornado Rampage

REUTERS, CNN (US) Worldcrunch GRANBURY – For seven hours overnight, at least 16 different twisters ripped through the town of Granbury, Texas, killing six people and leaving at least seven others missing. Sixteen injuries, some serious, were reported. CNN reports that the search for survivors is still ongoing in the central Texas town of 8,000: […]

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Massive Blast At Fertilizer Plant In Texas, Fears Death Toll Could Rise

BBC, CNN, DALLAS MORNING NEWS, WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD, WASHINGTON POST (U.S.) Worldcrunch WEST – A massive explosion Wednesday night in this town near Waco, Texas has left more than 160 people wounded, as well as an unspecified death toll that could quickly mount as search and rescue efforts continue into Thursday morning. A fire began in […]

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