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Ancient Mayan Vase Purchased by US Woman for $4 Returned to Mexico US Banana Giant Ordered to Pay $38M to Families of Colombian Men Killed by Death Squads Battle Lines Redrawn As Argentina’s Lithium Mines Ramp up to Meet Electric Car Demand ‘Fraught With Danger’: Wild Honey Gathering in Nepal – in Pictures African and Asian Artists Condemn ‘Humiliating’ UK and EU Visa Refusals Levelling the Playing Field: the Football Clubs Helping Migrants Make a New Home in Spain Fossil of Neanderthal Child With Down’s Syndrome Hints at Early Humans’ Compassion Barcelona to Ban Apartment Rentals to Tourists in Bid to Cut Housing Costs ‘We Cannot Deny History Again’: Brazil Floods Show How German Migration Silenced Black and Indigenous Stories 'They Had No Idea It Was Caligula': Bronze Bust of Roman Emperor Found After 200 Years Wild Ting: Why a Chattel House Now Sits on a Manicured Scottish Lawn Egyptian Scribes Suffered Work-Related Injuries, Study Says A Cycle of Debt, Sex Work and Cocaine: the Women in West Africa Caught in Europe’s Drugs Trail ‘Time Is Life’: the Delhi Clinic Treating the City’s Heat Stroke Victims Empty Classrooms, Silent Halls: Taiwan’s Declining Birthrate Forces Schools to Close ‘Women have always been sidelined. So we’re radical’: the Zawose Queens go from Tanzania to Glastonbury Drag Goes Mainstream in the Philippines, a Bastion of Christianity In Japan, These Women Want to Opt Out of Motherhood More Easily 36 Hours - Dublin

June 20, 2024

• Thailand Passes Historic Bill Recognising Marriage Equality
• How Biden’s New Immigration Policy Works
• ‘This Goes Beyond the Church’: the Nigerian Women in a Sisterhood of Millions
• ‘A Lingering Taste of Coconut and Vanilla’: How Nigerians Reclaimed ‘Moonshine’ Palm Spirit
• Governor Installs Crowd Control Gate on Mount Fuji to Limit Tourists
• ‘Your Plastic Is Here’: How Easter Island Copes With 500 Pieces of Rubbish an Hour Washing Ashore
• Fidlets, Fingies and Riding a Doo: Study Sheds Light on Antarctic English Slang
• ‘Nobody Is Coming to Help Us’: Afghan Teenage Girls on Life Without School
• From Showing Animals for Profit to Protecting Them: the Reinvention of Buenos Aires Zoo
• Us Universities Are Reinstating Sat Scores. Experts Say It Will Exacerbate Racial Inequality
• More Than 1,000 Hajj Pilgrims Die in Mecca As Temperatures Hit High of 51C
• Sawdust Toilets and Chairs That Crash Cars: Inside Copenhagen’s Radical Design Festival
• White Gold, Black Bodies: How a Tiny African Nation Shaped the World
• ‘I Am Their Voice Now’: the Tanzanian Rapper With a Mission to Spread Pride in His Own Colour
• More Women in Africa Are Using Long-Acting Contraception, Changing Lives
• Seafaring Nomads Settle Down Without Quite Embracing Life on Land
• Spicy Noodles and Pickled Fish: Chinese Eateries Move Into Hong Kong
• ‘No Talent Involved’: How Bad TikToks Boosted a Curry House

June 13, 2024

• Denmark Recalls South Korean Firm’s Instant Noodles for Being Too Spicy
• ‘In Nigeria, a Tyre Never Quite Dies’: Reinventing the Wheel in Lagos
• Oxford University to Return 500-Year-Old Sculpture of Hindu Saint to India
• Iraqi Mandaeans Thrive After Being Uprooted From Middle East to Midwest
• Peak Japan: Why Foreign Tourists Are Going Mad for Mount Fuji
• ‘Anything Can Be Edible’: How Italians Are Making a Meal of Invasive Crabs
• Native American Tribe Wins Right to Hunt Gray Whales off Washington Coast
• ‘Brexit Made Polish Culture More Visible’: How the Diaspora Is Changing Britain
• Drum Kits and Kombucha: How Some Australian Firms Are Enticing Gen Z Back Into the Office
• Glamour to Ghost Town: the Fate of One Cypriot Beach Resort – in Pictures
• ‘Our People Are Thriving’: New Zealand Māori Population Hits Million Mark
• The Cat in the Flat: Singapore Lifts Ban on Pets in Public Housing
• Et Voila! Voltaire Statue Returns to Paris After Four-Year Absence
• ‘We’Re Writing History’: Spanish Women Tackle Wikipedia’s Gender Gap
• How I Fell in Love With Football – and the Taliban Couldn’t Stop Me
• Beaten and Tortured: the North African Children Paying a Bloody Price for Europe’s Insatiable Appetite for Cocaine
• Ancient Genomes Reveal Which Children the Maya Selected for Sacrifice
• No, a Remote Amazon Tribe Did Not Get Addicted to Porn
• A Champion Sherpa Died Guiding Foreigners. Is It Too Dangerous?
• Japan Likes Tourists, Just Not This Many
• U.S. Scores Historic Cricket Win, but Only Pakistan Notices
• Where to Get the Most Bang for Your Buck
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June 6, 2024

• What the US Asylum Process Is Really Like, in Applicants’ Own Words: ‘I’ve Waited 10 Years’
• Waves of Change: Japan’s Female Fishers Fill the Gap in a Struggling Industry
• Biden’s New Order Leaves Migrants at Border in Limbo Over Asylum Fate
• ‘How Could They Mine Here?’ New Zealand Grapples With New Push for Resource Riches
• From Beef Noodles to Bots: Taiwan’s Factcheckers on Fighting Chinese Disinformation and ‘Unstoppable’ AI
• Thai Island of Samui Weighs ‘White Lotus Effect’ Against Environmental Cost
• The Art of Resistance: Desert Film Festival Showcases Stories of the Sahrawi People
• Activists Fly K-Pop Usb Sticks Into North Korea As ‘Poo Balloon’ Row Intensifies
• ‘You Need to Be Brave’: Tigray’s Female Cyclists Ride Again in the Aftermath of War
• 'There Was No Other Option’: the Aid Packages Feeding Diabetes and Heart Disease in the Pacific Islands
• Five of the Best Books About West African Cities
• ‘You Can Do Anything Here!’ Why Lithuania Is the Best Place in the World to Be Young
• From Scythia to South Korea: a Potted History of Poo in Warfare
• Italian Village With 46 Residents Has 30 Local Election Candidates
• ‘A Small Respite in the Face of Horror’: Sudanese Artists Fleeing War Find a Safe Haven
• Finding a Job in Ireland Is Easy. Finding a Place to Live Is the Hard Bit
• Overlooked No More: Hansa Mehta, Who Fought for Women’s Equality in India and Beyond
• Why You’ll Pay More and Behave Better When You Travel This Summer
• 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love South African Jazz