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January 16, 2025

• Kenya Court Rules That Criminalising Attempted Suicide Is Unconstitutional
• A Kidnapped Chinese Actor, a Scam Gang, and a Very Public Rescue Operation
• They Followed the Rules to Enter the US. Now Trump Wants to Deport Them.
• ‘What Joy! What Damn Joy!’: Vanilla Boom Transforms Fortunes of Colombia’s Farmers
• The Long Wave: Andrée Blouin, the Unsung Heroine of African Independence
• ‘Solar Mamas Empower Our People by Giving Them Electricity’: the Women Lighting up Zanzibar
• Africa Has No Shortage of Celebrated Writers – so Why Is It so Hard for African Readers to Get Hold of Their Books?
• Tokyo Drift: What Happens When a City Stops Being the Future?
• Japan’s Coming of Age Ceremony – in Pictures
• ‘A Trash Can for the US’: Anger in Mexico and Canada Over Toxic Waste Shipments
• Spain Proposes 100% Tax on Homes Bought by Non-EU Residents
• Once a Site of Horror, a Tiny Caribbean Island Could Become a Garifuna Shrine
• ‘Women Are the Best to Women’: Has Iceland Found the Antidote to Toxic ‘Girlboss’ Feminism?
• Celtic Women Held Sway in ‘Matrilocal’ Societies
• a House at Auschwitz Opens Its Doors to a Chilling Past
• for These Teenagers in Ukraine, Hope Arrived at the Stage Door
• the Painting, the Photograph and the War for Ukraine’s Culture
• They Were Hits in London. Then They Got Smacked in New York.
• Bracing for Life after TikTok, Americans Join the Chinese Internet
• Meet Japan’s Original Decluttering Guru (No, Not That One)
• the World’s Largest Human Gathering Begins in India
• Mummies’ Ancient Tattoos Come Under Laser Focus
• Extinct Human Species Lived in a Brutal Desert, Study Finds

January 9, 2025

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• The 'New China' In Thailand: ‘If You Want Hope, You Have To Leave’ – Video
• ‘I’Ve Seen Women Suffer’: Malawi’s Religious Leaders Fight For Legal Abortions
• Thailand Bans Imports Of Plastic Waste To Curb Toxic Pollution
• UK Cut Health Aid To Vulnerable Nations While Hiring Their Nurses, Research Finds
• Stolen Skulls And Colonial Trauma: The Tanzanians Searching For Ancestral Remains
• Cockney Influences Found In Scotland, Australia And New Zealand, Says Expert
• Waitangi Day: Record Crowds Expected Amid Tensions Over Māori Policy In New Zealand
• Please Don’t Eat Your Christmas Tree, Belgium Urges the Public
• Pope Names Nun to Head a Vatican Department, a First for a Woman
• Boarding Schools in Tibet Reshape the ‘Souls of Children’
• Egypt’s Economy Is Damaged. It Sees a Scapegoat, and a Potential Fix, in Refugees
• The Voice of South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation

January 2, 2025

• New Year’s 2025: Celebrations Around the World
• ‘Living Proof That You Can Spend Money on the Poor’: Utopia Comes to Mexico City
• Painstaking Work to Conserve Ireland’s Oldest Paper Documents Begins
• How Italy’s Carabinieri Cultural Heritage Protection Squad Foiled Tomb-Raiders
• ‘Never Underestimate What Neighbors Can Do for Neighbors:’ the Small Town That Teamed up to Take in Two Families
• Pharaohs, Masks and Bronze Age Boats: Six Standout New Museums Around the World in 2025
• Warmth Amid Absence: Life of Romanian Children Whose Parents Work Abroad – Photo Essay
• Kung Fu Nuns Show off Martial Art Skills at Monastery Reopening in Nepal
• Japan’s ‘Cat Island’ Falls Victim to Demographic Crisis
• A Half-Ton Piece of Space Junk Falls Onto a Village in Kenya
• Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health
• Despite Attacks, an Underground Church for L.G.B.T.Q. Africans Thrives
• Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo
• Under a Highway in Rio, a Dance Style Charms a New Generation
• Playing to Win: How a First Nation Turned Around Its Fortunes
• The Radish-Carving Contest That Draws Thousands to Southern Mexico
• The 10 Architectural Sites You Should See in São Paulo
• Is This the Year Laos Breaks Through?
• Ignoring Warnings, a Growing Band of Tourists Venture to Afghanistan
• My K-Drama Pilgrimage
• Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political Protest
• Costumes, Beers and Cheers: How Darts Became London’s Rowdiest Winter Party
• The Other Naples, Not Seen on Instagram
• 36 Hours - Antwerp, Belgium