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Taliban Could Be Convinced to Open Girls’ Schools, Says Afghanistan Ex-education Minister Happy, Faithful and Tied to Nature: Life Adapting to the Climate Crisis – Photo Essay Heroic, Short, Callous, Crumpled, Christlike: How Artists Portrayed Napoleon Before Ridley Scott Striking smartphone portraits from Ghana – in pictures €100m Botticelli Painting Forgotten for 50 years Recovered from Naples Home ‘A Bus Is Open to Everyone Regardless of Class’: Riding the World’s Biggest Network Tears of the Tigris: A Journey Through Iraq – In Pictures Foiled Robbery Attempt Sees Demand for Ancient Samurai Weapon Soar in Japan A Window into Secretive North Korea – in pictures Birdsong: The Dying Whistled Language of the Hmong People in Northern Laos LGBTQ+ Couple in Nepal Are First in South Asia to Be Legally Married ‘People Didn’t Realise a Funeral Could Be So Beautiful’: Poland Finds a New Way to Celebrate Life – and Death Sea Crossings, Cleaning, and Connery’s Coffee: Memories of Galicians Who Came to Britain History Fades as Rising Sea Levels Slowly Destroy Thailand’s Temple Murals ‘Changing Takes Time’: How Female Photographers in Africa are Redefining Their Lives Need Therapy? In West Africa, Hairdressers Can Help. Baseball Flourishes in Colombia’s Capital. But Not Because of Colombians. Where the Flavors of the Amazon Rainforest Delight South Korea’s City of Books An Oratorio About Shanghai’s Jews Opens in China at a Difficult Time

November 22, 2023

• ‘Ghosts from the Past’: Fears of Abortion Setback after Milei Wins in Argentina
• Pakistan Under Fire for ‘Shocking’ $830 Exit Fee for Refugees who Fled Taliban
• Hunger Crisis Threatens Chad as Funding for Food Aid Falters
• Asylum Groups Warn of ‘Catastrophic Situation’ in Northern France
• ‘It Is All About Listening and Sharing’: Indigenous Solutions to the Carbon Divide
• ‘Hell de Janeiro’: Scorching Heat Highlights Brazil’s Glaring Inequality
• How a Sleepy Town in Cambodia Won a Place on Unesco’s Culinary Map
• Emperor’s New Clothes: Why the French Are Ready to Embrace Napoleon Again
• ‘They’ll See She Was Extraordinary’: Callas Centenary Inspires New Generation to Find the Real Maria
• Japan’s Dying Art of Cormorant Fishing – In Pictures
• The Waste Pickers of Nairobi’s Dandora Dump Site – In Pictures
• Months After Deadly Floods in Libya, Migrants’ Families Still Await News of the Missing
• The Big Picture: In Search of a Land Where Time Stands Still
• ‘It’s Always Us Who Pay the Price’: Displaced by DRC’s Endless Cycle of War
• ‘You Live in Your Own Bubble’: Swedish City Takes on Loneliness with a Simple Hi
• ‘There Are No Crops to Celebrate’: Climate Crisis Wipes Out a Way of Life in Taiwan’s Mountains
• Stay or Go? Offered a Future Away from Home, Tuvalu’s People Face a Painful Choice
• As Morocco Tries to Rebuild After Quake, Tradition Is Top of Many Minds
• In Spain, the Latin Grammys Recognize Powerful Women
• ‘Buena Vista Social Club,’ a Story of Second Chances, Gets One More

November 16, 2023

• Is Argentina the First A.I. Election?
• Taylor Swift Takes Her Eras Tour Global, Shaking Argentina
• ‘They Bring US Joy’: Afghans Swept up in Cricketing Fairytale
• Bangladesh Garment Workers Fighting for Pay Face Brutal Violence and Threats
• ‘If It Doesn’t Smell Like Funk, Something’s Wrong With Your Recipe’: Brazilian Baile Funk Goes Global, Again
• Weevils and Lemon Ants: a Chef in the Amazon Keeps Rainforest Dishes Alive
• ‘Leave the Gold in the Ground’: Ecuador’s Forest Guardians Mobilise Against Illegal Mining in Amazon
• ‘He Turned Heads’: Ghana’s Most Stylish Guys – in Pictures
• ‘Pachi Pachi’ or ‘Kachi Kachi’? Japan Launches Foreigners’ Guide to Tricky World of Onomatopoeia
• ‘It Was Incredible to See’: Kenyans Dig Deep on First National Tree Planting Day
• Dust, Hail and Bank Loans: the Mongolian Herders Facing Life Without Grass
• Amsterdam Welcomes Decline of Nuisance Tourism After ‘Stay Away’ Drive
• Meet the African Artists Driving a Cultural Renaissance
• Peace Corps, Criticized for Medical Care, Settles Wrongful-Death Suit for $750,000
• In Texas, Vietnamese American Shrimpers Must Forge a New Path Again
• The Corner Lot Where All the World’s Vegemite Comes From
• Adventures on Dublin’s Culinary Trail

November 9, 2023

• Workers for Fast Fashion Brands Fear Starvation As They Fight for Higher Wages
• Anger Over Fish Stocks As Senegal Village Mourns Boat Disaster Dead
• Geothermal Spa Closes in Iceland As Guests Flee After Series of Earthquakes
• Fermented Coconut and Cashew Fruit: the Ancient Spirits Fuelling India’s Craft Alcohol Boom
• Scottish University Returns Tribal Warrior Skulls to Taiwan
• Seoul to Trial Seatless Subway Carriages to Cut Rush-Hour Congestion
• Love Letters, Gossip, Prayers and Poetry: the Tapes That Sustained the Somali Diaspora
• How One Small Statistic Became a Story That Spanned a Continent
• As a Teen, She Loved Video Games. Now She’s Using A.I. to Try to Quash Malaria.
• In the World's Driest Deset, Ancient Wisdom Blooms Eternal
• An Old Master's Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart
• A Cook's Tour of Tokyo Food Scene
• A Bundle of 18th-Century Love Letters Is Unsealed at Last
• Poland’s Art World Awaits a Culture War Counteroffensive

November 2, 2023

• ‘You Have Forgotten Us’: Darfur’s Victims Struggle on in a Chad Refugee Camp
• ‘It’s Like a Plague’: Land Buying by Outsiders Threatens Patagonia’s Peace
• French Couple Take Dealer to Court for Share of African Mask’s €4.2M Sale Price
• ‘Reggae, Hip-Hop and a Lot of Humour’: the Ghanaian Funeral Troubadour’s Joyful Soundtrack for the Dead
• 12Th Fail Review – Indian Exam Yarn Offers Hope on Overcoming Corruption and Poverty
• Dekotora: the Decorated Trucks of Japan – a Photo Essay
• ‘More to This Place Than Barbed Wire’: South Korea Reimagines Its Dmz As a Path Towards Peace
• Love Bikes, Hate ‘Wild Parking’ – Dutch City Puts Rule-Breakers on the Rack
• ‘Changing Takes Time’: How Female Photographers in Africa Are Redefining Their Lives
• More Than Just Rugby’: Championship Generates Harmony in South Africa
• The World Is Becoming More African
• A 500-Year-Old Inca Mummy in Peru Now Has a Face
• A Dancing Nun Is the Stuff of Horror in Mexico
• Shanghai’s Halloween Party, a Rare Chance for Chinese to Vent in Style
• For China’s Jobless Young People, Hostels Are the Place to Be