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March 20, 2025

• Tourist Detentions at the U.S. Border: What International Visitors Should Know
• ‘We’re Fairly Different’: Life in New Zealand’s Remote Self-Declared ‘Republic’
• ‘Like a Game of Black-Belt Level Jenga’: Inside the Ancient Art of Japanese Carpentry
• Italian Newspaper Says It Has Published World’s First AI-Generated Edition
• ‘This Is Your Mission’: Why One Brazilian Doctor Is Training to Be a Shaman
• Biased Laws and Poverty Driving Huge Rise in Female Prisoners – Report
• The Pop-Up Megacity: How the Kumbh Mela Prepared for 660M Hindu Devotees
• ‘It’s Back to Drug Rationing’: the End of HIV Was in Sight. Then Came the Cuts
• Madrid Plans to Limit Computer and Tablet Use in Primary Schools to Two Hours a Week
• St Vincent and the Grenadines Buys Island Central to Garifuna Culture
• World Food Programme Halves Food Rations for Rohingya in Bangladesh
• Troubled Waters: Life on the Edge of Africa’s Lake Kivu – in Pictures
• ‘A Slap in the Face’: Activists Reel As Trump Administration Removes Crucial Missing Indigenous Peoples Report
• The End of the Ayoreo? the Race to Find Proof That Paraguay’s Uncontacted People Exist
• ‘He Is Innocent’: Family of Deported Venezuelan Rebukes Trump Claims
• Back to Cash: Life Without Money in Your Pocket Is Not the Utopia Sweden Hoped
• ‘Spreadsheets of Empire’: Red Tape Goes Back 4,000 Years, Say Scientists After Iraq Finds
• Fears for Human Rights As Peru Passes ‘Simply Brutal’ Anti-NGO Law
• What to Know About the El Salvador Mega-Prison Where Trump Sent Deported Venezuelans
• U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts Hit Sudanese Refugees Fleeing Violence and Famine in Darfur
• Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
• Mexico City Bans Traditional Bullfights for Violence-Free Option

March 13, 2025

• Celebrations and Protests in the US and Around the World Mark International Women’s Day
• The Long Wave: From Aseeda to Vimto, Ramadan Traditions Across the Diaspora
• This Land Is Your Land: Leaf Portraits of Ecuador’s Female Farmers – in Pictures
• Azerbaijan and Armenia Strike Deal to End Decades-Long Conflict
• ‘Disruptive, Unfair and Cruel’: Jobs Lost and Treatment Stopped As USaid Freeze Hits Hiv Care in Zimbabwe
• A Growing Appetite for Jellyfish Promised a Boom for Fishers in Honduras. but Then the Storms Came
• ‘They Turned Our Home Into a Cemetery’: the High Price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City Dream
• How Not to Be Deported: India’s Nurses Seeking Work Abroad Learn How to Migrate Safely
• Australia to Host ‘Space-Out Competition’ – Where People Compete to Do Nothing
• ‘The Grapes Won’t Wait’: Lebanese Winemakers Fight to Survive As War Rages
• Uk Drops Down List of Affluent Nations After Decade of Stagnation, Niesr Finds
• Bone Fragments of Oldest Known Human Face in Western Europe Found in Spain
• The Ukrainian Refugee Fighting to Become the First European Sumo Grand Champion
• No Kant Do: Eurovision Bars Malta’s Entry Over Title’s Similarity to C-Word
• The End of the Ayoreo? the Race to Find Proof That Paraguay’s Uncontacted People Exist
• Authoritarian Leaders in Former Soviet Bloc Seize on Musk’s USaid Crackdown
• ‘In Plain Sight’: How the Hague Museum Was Secret Hideout From Nazi Forced Labour
• Crumble, Cookies and Madeleines – Recipes of Hope for Iran’s Jailed Women
• ‘We Cleared Rubble With Our Bare Hands’: Iraqis Rejoice As Shattered Mosul Rises From the Ruins
• ‘You Can Yodel and Don’t Have to Be Conservative’: the Swiss Feminist Choir Rewriting Traditional Songs
• ‘We Have Nothing Now’: Myanmar’s Exiled Media Face Existential Crisis After Trump Severs Aid
• Tuberculosis Resurgent as Trump Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally
• Climate Change Made South Sudan’s Heat Wave 10 Times as Likely, Study Finds

March 6, 2025

• Can Moldova – Population 2.4M – Show the World How to Stand up to Putin?
• The Long Wave: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival Celebrates African Roots
• ‘This Will Cost Lives’: Cuts to UK Aid Budget Condemned As ‘Betrayal’ by International Development Groups
• The Guardian View on Why Canada Matters: a Nation in the Global Frontline
• ‘We Used to Think the Ice Was Eternal’: Colombia Looks to a Future Without Glaciers
• ‘People Cry, Get Angry’: Remembering the Enslaved in Ghana’s Remarkable Sculpture Park
• Majority of Western Europeans Think Trump Is Threat to Peace, Survey Finds
• Women Behind the Lens: ‘In Cuba, Domestic Life Is Forced on to the Streets’
• An Audience With the ‘Dragon King’ of Bhutan, From 1984
• ‘Little Agency That Could’ Cheered for Act of Resistance Against Trump and Musk
• ‘I Focus on the Person, Not the Disability’: the Photographer on a Mission to Make India Inclusive
• Row Erupts in New Zealand Parliament Over Use of Māori Name Aotearoa
• State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
• Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’
• Many Chinese See a Cultural Revolution in America
• 36 Hours in Valencia
• Not Time’s Fool: a Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered