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Geopolitics

Around The World, 31 Newspapers React To London Attack

Westminster Bridge after March 22 attack
Westminster Bridge after March 22 attack
Worldcrunch

A British-born attacker killed four and injured about 40 others yesterday in an attack on Westminster in the heart of London. The attack coincided with the one-year anniversary of the Brussels bombings, leaving police on high alert around Europe. Here's how international newspapers reacted to the attack on the British capital:



UNITED KINGDOM

The Daily Telegraph

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The Herald

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The Journal

The Guardian



FRANCE

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Le Figaro

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La Voix du Nord



GERMANY

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Frankfurter Allgemeine


HUNGARY

Kelet Magyarorszag



CROATIA

Vecernji List


GREECE

Kathimerini



SPAIN

La Voz de Galicia


ITALY

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Corriere Della Serra



DENMARK

Politiken



BELGIUM

Gazet van Antwerpen​



TURKEY

Kibris Postasi



KUWAIT

Al Qabas



INDIA

Dainik Bhaskar



INDONESIA

The Jakarta Post



SRI LANKA



Daily Lankadeepa



SOUTH AFRICA

Die Burger

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The Times



UNITED STATES

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The New York Times

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USA Today

El Diario de El Paso



MEXICO

Publimetro



DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

Listin Diario



ECUADOR

Expresso



CHILE

La Tercera



BRAZIL

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Folha de S. Paulo


ARGENTINA

La Nacion



VENEZUELA

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El Universal

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A Refuge From China's Rat Race: The Young People Flocking To Buddhist Monasteries

Unemployment, stress in the workplace, economic difficulties: more and more young Chinese graduates are flocking to monasteries to find "another school of life."

Photograph of a girl praying at a temple during Chinese Lunar New Year. She is burning incense.

Feb 20, 2015 - Huaibei, China - Chinese worshippers pray at a temple during the Lunar New Yeat

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Frédéric Schaeffer

JIAXING — It's already dawn at Xianghai Temple when Lin, 26, goes to the Hall of 10,000 Buddhas for the 5:30 a.m. prayer.

Still half-asleep, the young woman joins the monks in chanting mantras and reciting sacred texts for an hour. Kneeling, she bows three times to Vairocana, also known as the Great Sun Buddha, who dominates the 42-meter-high hall representing the cosmos.

Before grabbing a vegetarian breakfast in the adjacent refectory, monks and devotees chant around the hall to the sound of drums and gongs.

"I resigned last October from the e-commerce company where I had been working for the past two years in Nanjing, and joined the temple in January, where I am now a volunteer in residence," explains the young woman, soberly dressed in black pants and a cream linen jacket.

Located in the city of Jiaxing, over a hundred kilometers from Shanghai, in eastern China, the Xianghai temple is home to some 20 permanent volunteers.

Unlike Lin, most of them only stay for a couple days or a few weeks. But for Lin, who spends most of her free time studying Buddhist texts in the temple library, the change in her life has been radical. "I used to do the same job every day, sometimes until very late at night, writing all kinds of reports for my boss. I was exhausted physically and mentally. I felt my life had no meaning," she says.

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