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‘Power of the Masses’: the Day Iceland’s Women Went on Strike and Changed History For Afghans Around the World This Cricket World Cup Is Providing a Rare Moment of Joy Women, Life, Freedom! Iranian Electronic Musicians Reflect on a Year of Protest Colombia and Mali Leading Efforts to Improve Air Quality, New Ranking Finds Lederhosen in the Amazon: an Austro-German Enclave in Peru Keeps Traditions Alive ‘Pervasive and Relentless’ Racism on the Rise in Europe, Survey Finds Climate Crisis Is ‘Not Gender Neutral’: UN Calls for More Policy Focus on Women Ancient Rock Carvings Revealed by Receding Amazon Waters Amid Drought Brazil Slave Trafficker’s Links to Top Bank Spark Debate Over Reparations West Africa’s Style Icons … and the Tiny Studio That Shot Them – in Pictures ‘We Are Alive and We Are Here’: Chile’s Lost Tribe Celebrates Long-Awaited Recognition Ethiopian Drought and Child Marriage – in Portraits ‘Reggae, Hip-Hop and a Lot of Humour’: the Ghanaian Funeral Troubadour’s Joyful Soundtrack for the Dead Colourful Beauty of Parthenon Marbles Revealed in Scientific Analysis Trapped As Fire Raged: Deadly Perils in Mexico for Migrants Escaping Climate Catastrophe Cold War Satellite Images Reveal Hundreds of Unknown Roman Forts Demonstration in Oslo Seeks Removal of Windfarms in Indigenous Region ‘They Treated Me Like an Animal’: How Filipino Domestic Workers Become Trapped Oil-Rich and Extremely Poor: Inside the Forgotten ‘Abyei Box’ – a Photo Essay Official Swedish Dictionary Completed After 140 Years ‘I Have to Wear Two Hats’: Thailand’s Breakdancing Team Confronts Hair Loss at the Asian Games Synod of Bishops to Meet in Rome As Women Prepare to Vote for First Time Stone by Ancient Stone, Mexico Recovers Its Lost Treasures South Korea Must Return Buddhist Statue to Japan, Supreme Court Says A Hindu Goddess Festival Where Indian Progressivism Is Alive and Well If You Can Take the Cable Car to the Colosseum, You’re in Vietnam

October 19, 2023

• ‘There Is No Hope Here’: Young Africans Explain Why They Would Risk Death to Leave Home
• ‘We’re so Fearful’: Pakistan Rounds up Afghan Refugees for Deportation
• West Africa’s Style Icons … and the Tiny Studio That Shot Them – in Pictures
• Drought Turns Amazonian Capital into Climate Dystopia
• Behind the Scenes at Kibera Fashion Week in Kenya – in Pictures
• Riding a Wave: Surfing at Robertsport in Liberia – in Pictures
• ‘Reggae, Hip-hop and a Lot of Humour’: the Ghanaian Funeral Troubadour’s Joyful Soundtrack for the Dead
• Trapped as Fire Raged: Deadly Perils in Mexico for Migrants Escaping Climate Catastrophe
• Pizza, Plum Cake and Pickled Red Onion: How School Lunches Look Across Europe
• ‘I Got to Know the Wolf’: How Spain’s Shepherds Are Learning to Live with Their Old Enemy
• Lacrosse Is Coming to the Olympics. Will Its Inventors Be There?
• Chasing Jack the Ripper Through the Streets of Modern London
• Time Runs Out on a Canadian Radio Tradition

October 12, 2023

• ‘You Have Forgotten Us’: Darfur’s Victims Struggle on in a Chad Refugee Camp
• ‘Happy Rebirth!’: Chinese Women Shake off Taboos Around Divorce to Celebrate Freedom
• ‘This Is the Most Stressed City in India’: the Dark Side of Coaching Capital Kota
• Made in Heaven: Salacious TV Series Spotlights Sex, Status and Scheming in Modern Delhi
• Manhole Covers Become Collector’s Items in Japan
• King Charles to Acknowledge ‘Painful’ Colonial Past on State Visit to Kenya
• ‘Repair Is the New Cool’: How Amsterdam Started a Fashion Revolution
• Hanging by a Thread: Peruvian Alpaca Breeders’ Aay of Life Under Threat
• ‘I Have to Wear Two Hats’: Thailand’s Breakdancing Team Confronts Hair loss at the Asian Games
• A Patois Revival: Jamaica Weighs Language Change as Ties to Britain Fray
• A Solar Eclipse Shines Light on Traditions That Still Matter Today
• Turmoil Engulfs Canadian Art Museums Seeking to Shed Colonial Past
• Ask New Zealand’s Maori Party What They’re Wearing. They Dare You.
• How a Radio Station Is Empowering Women in a Rural Heartland
• Buzz-Cut and Brave: the Chinese Women Who Defy ‘Beauty Duty’
• A Pilgrimage in the Heart of the Italian Alps
• 36 Hours in Montreal

October 5, 2023

• ‘We Are Fighting for the Girls Who Come After Us’: Abortion Rights at Risk in Argentina Election
• ‘This Is a Forced Migration’: the Ethnic Armenians Fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh
• ‘We Need to Tell People Everything’: Portugal Grapples with Legacy of Colonial Past
• Brazil’s First-Ever Minister for Indigenous Peoples: ‘It Is Time for the World to Look at Our Way of Life’
• ‘We Are alive and We Are Here’: Chile’s Lost Tribe Celebrates Long-Awaited Recognition
• ‘They Don’t Want to Give Power to Girls’: the Women Shaking up Colombia’s Graffiti Scene
• One Kissa Is All It Takes: Tokyo’s Finest Jazz Haunts – in Pictures
• Resistance Rappers: the Pahnji Gang Raging Against the Machine in Pakistan
• ‘Art Is the Way I Feel Free’: the Artists Working Under Siege in Gaza
• From Garrison Town to Goldrush City: Life in Africa’s Youngest Capital
• The Politics of Bubble Tea: at Last, Taiwanese Food Is Getting the Recognition It Deserves
• ‘Our Language Is Dying’
• A Statue Draped With Snakes? in Italy, It Happens Every Year.