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A Thriving Border Town Undercuts South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Mood Donald Duck, Carp in a Bath and Squatting Statuettes: Christmas Quirks Across Europe This Family Introduced Melbourne to Japanese Nude Public Baths. Was Australia Ever Ready for It? Ski Resorts Battle for a Future As Snow Declines in Climate Crisis Darwin in Patagonia: Tracing the Naturalist’s Route Around the Foot of South America ‘Embrace the Unexpected’: African Art Boosts Its Presence at Venice Biennale Uruguay’s Green Power Revolution: Rapid Shift to Wind Shows the World How It’s Done How Mama Octopus and Her Female Fishing Crew Make Waves Saving Kenya’s Reefs Tackle Training and Too Many Urinals: New Zealand Women Face Challenges As They Flock to Rugby ‘It’s a Time to Forget All the Stress’: Christmas in Africa’s Largest Refugee Camp Iceland’s ‘Bike Whisperer’: the Vigilante Who Finds Stolen Bicycles – and Helps Thieves Change Indian Christians Find Comfort and Joy in Church Communities Across Britain ‘We Have a Lot of Cracks’: Swedes Seek to Save Vasa Warship – Again Many Prehistoric Handprints Show a Finger Missing. What If This Was Not Accidental? Mixed-Race People Become Brazil’s Biggest Population Group Greece Would Offer Major Treasures to UK for Parthenon Marbles, Minister Says In This Mexican Neighborhood, Locals Say ¡Viva el Beetle! In Remote Canada, a College Becomes a Magnet for Indian Students Beyond Bollywood’s Glitz, a Subtler Indian Cinema Embraces New Stories Mongolians Are Circus Stars All Over the World, Except at Home I Just Arrived in London. Can I Come to Dinner?

December 21, 2023

• Greece to Legalise Papers for Thousands of Migrants to Counter Labour Shortage
• Our Little Amal Has Travelled Thousands of Miles – but There Is Still Far to Go
• Reindeer Noir, the Finnish Crime Sub-Genre Influenced by Santa’s Home Towns
• Short Hops and Economy Class: Five Expert Tips on How to Reduce Your Emissions on Holiday
• Pacific Islands Forum: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
• The Best European Culture of 2023
• Strokes, terrible pain and early death: can Zambia help beat sickle cell by screening babies?
• How a Sleepy Town in Cambodia Won a Place on Unesco’s Culinary Map
• Disappearing the Disappeared’: Outcry After Mexico Reduces Number of Missing
• Amid Myanmar’s Longest War, a People Struggle to Survive in the Forest
• South-East Asia’s Quirky, Sweary Shopping Stars Cashing in on Livestream Selling
• Desperately Seeking Suzukis: Japanese Town Hopes to Make Name for Itself With Population Boost
• ‘We Make Magic Here’: the Amazon Community Creating a Future Out of Chocolate
• Freud Exhibition Delves Into a Dramatic Legacy in Latin America
• ‘North Korea Can Own a Club’: How Fans Grew to Defend Sportswashing
• Virginia Museum to Return 44 Stolen or Looted Works to Egypt, Italy and Turkey
• ‘People Are Proud of This Green Spirit of Ours’: How a Small Spanish City Rejected Cars
• ‘We Live off the Forest’: Fears Rise in Suriname As Mennonites Look to Settle
• ‘Historic Moment’: Panama Activists Celebrate Ruling Against Copper Mine
• Live from the Jungle: Migrants Become Influencers on Social Media
• An Egg Fried Rice Recipe Shows the Absurdity of China’s Speech Limits
• What to Know About the Chaebol Families That Dominate South Korea’s Economy
• In Rightward Shift, New Zealand Reconsiders Pro-Maori Policies
• In India, There’s an App for Everything. Even Dream Babies
• 36 Hours in Córdoba, Spain
• When Translating a Play Is About More Than Language
• A Tuscan Retreat Where ‘Literature is the Primary Value’

December 15, 2023

• Paradise Cost: the Pacific Islands Changing the Future of Tourism
• Up to 220 Indonesians Could Be Compensated After Children Wrongly Jailed in Australia As People Smugglers
• ‘Too Much Sadness’: Asylum Seekers in Finland Caught in Geopolitical Drama
• Japan Chooses ‘Tax’ As Kanji of the Year Amid Concern Over Cost of Living
• Happy, Faithful and Tied to Nature: Life Adapting to the Climate Crisis – Photo Essay
• Parthenon Marbles Should Return to Athens, Says Lord Frost
• Tears of the Tigris: a Journey Through Iraq – in Pictures
• ‘Our Tapestries Open Ears’: the South African Women Stitching Monumental Tales of Love and Loss
• Birdsong: the Dying Whistled Language of the Hmong People in Northern Laos
• ‘Weapons of Mass Migration’: How States Exploit the Failure of Migration Policies
• ‘No Protein in Late Pregnancy’: Battling Dietary Myths in South Sudan
• Dust, Hail and Bank Loans: the Mongolian Herders Facing Life Without Grass
• ‘Cinema Is Like a Bridge’: the Amazon’s First Floating Film Festival Brings Indigenous Stories to the Big Screen
• ‘My Friends Were Amazed’: Nigerian Women Break ‘Male’ Jobs Barrier Amid Cost-Of-Living Crisis
• The Big Picture: in Search of a Land Where Time Stands Still
• The Stories Behind Europe’s Unmarked Migrant Graves
• Archaeologists Unearth ‘Most Shocking Example of Roman Slavery’ at Pompeii
• How a Sleepy Town in Cambodia Won a Place on Unesco’s Culinary Map
• ‘Drug Use Is a Health Problem’: Inside One of the World’s Oldest Legal Consumption Rooms
• Feminism in Pictures: Illustrated Stories of Women’s Rights Around the World
• Where Have All the Grasshoppers Gone? Uganda’s Insect Traders Struggle to Find Protein-Rich Bugs
• World Faces ‘Heightened Risk’ of Mass Atrocities Due to Global Inaction
• A New Cocktail Festival Puts the Spotlight on Africa
• How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time
• Fancy Wearing a Kaunda Suit? Not in Kenya’s Parliament
• The Unapologetic ‘Auntie’ of Indigenous Data
• This Christmas, ‘Whamageddon’ Will Save You From Tears
• This May Be the World’s Smelliest Cheese
• A Beloved Comedian’s Film on Domestic Abuse Draws Italians, in Droves
• Spotlighting the Body in a Nascent Arab Art World

December 8, 2023

• Feminism in Pictures: Illustrated Stories of Women’s Rights Around the World
• ‘Good Morning, Children’: Burkina Faso Radio Station Aids Learning amid jihadist Disruption
• West Africa’s Style Icons … and the Tiny Studio that Shot Them – in pictures
• ‘Cinema Is Like a Bridge’: the Amazon’s First Floating Film Festival Brings Indigenous Stories to the Big Screen
• The Sauna Secret: Why Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World
• Plato, Pilates and Pubs: Has an Irish Town Found the Secret to the Good Life?
• Desperately Seeking Suzukis: Japanese Town Hopes to Make Name for Itself with Population Boost
• Dance Centre Kenya’s Nutcracker – a Photo Essay
• ‘Our Tapestries Open Ears’: the South African Women Stitching Monumental Tales of Love and Loss
• Telling Tales: Zimbabwe’s Weaver Press Celebrates 25 Years of Championing Truth-telling Fiction
• Unusual Names Can Complicate Life in Japan. Now Parents Are Being Reined In.
• Why More Chinese Are Risking Danger in Southern Border Crossings to U.S.
• Seoul Takes ‘Center Stage’ in the Art World