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January 18, 2024
- Bless This Horse: Religious Pet Ceremonies in Mexico – in Pictures
- Blinded, Sexually Assaulted, Silenced: the War Over Lithium, Argentina’s ‘White Gold’
- Lula Vows to Win ‘War’ Against Illegal Miners Invading Indigenous Lands
- The Bottom Line: Brazilians Perfect Tans With Electrical Tape Bikinis
- The Online Hate Campaign Turning Indonesians Against Rohingya Refugees
- ‘People Come to Touch the Walls’: Fears for Istanbul’s Crumbling Byzantine Past
- ‘They Treated Me Like an Animal’: How Filipino Domestic Workers Become Trapped – Podcast
- ‘Scars on Every Street’: the Refugee Camp Where Generations of Palestinians Have Lost Their Futures
- Four-Day Work Week to Be Trialled in Dominican Republic
- Femicide in Kenya a National Crisis, Say Rights Groups
- Cape Verde Becomes Fourth African Country to Eliminate Malaria
- Decades After the Country’s Internal Conflict, Peruvians Lay Murdered Family Members to Rest – a Photo Essay
- Remains of ‘Lost’ Bronze Age Tomb Discovered in County Kerry in Ireland
- Pokémon Pandemonium: Did the Van Gogh Museum Play Its Cards Right?
- Guatemala’s Baby Brokers: How Thousands of Children Were Stolen for Adoption
- Japan’s Salarymen Opt for Ultra-Cheap Lunches As Food Prices Continue to Rise
- ‘No Gree for Anybody’ Slang Could Be Message of Rebellion, Nigerian Police Claim
- ‘The High Life Can Be Low Carbon’: the European Royals Taking on the Climate Crisis
- Guerrilla Fighters Turned Craft Brewers: Colombia’s Unlikely Beer Company With a Message of Peace
- ‘It Gets Your Stomach Churning’: the Team Wading Through Nappies to Clean up Bali’s Waterways
- ‘Parthenon of Macedonia’: Site Where Alexander the Great Was Proclaimed King Reopens
- New Utopian Enclave? Or a Testament to Inequality?
- This Language Was Long Believed Extinct. Then One Man Spoke Up
- China Told Women to Have Babies, but Its Population Shrank Again
- Indigenous Tourism Goes Deeper Than ‘Dinner and a Show’
- In Norway, a Proposed Ban on Foreign Adoptions Rattles All Sides of a Heated Debate
- As Development Alters Greek Islands’ Nature and Culture, Locals Push Back
January 11, 2024
- Danger and Dignity in Some of the World’s Vanishing Trades – a Photo Essay
- ‘If I Go Out, I’Ll Be a Target’: Fear Stalks Uganda Over Brutal Anti-Gay Laws
- Dutch Caribbean Islanders Sue Netherlands Over Climate Change
- Libraries for the future: Europe’s new wave of ‘meeting places for the mind’
- Mongolia Dragged Its Wild Horses Back From Extinction – Can It Save the Rest of Its Wildlife?
- Every Day’s a School Day: the Great-Grandmother Who Goes to Primary School
- ‘Art Is a Form of Protest That Leaves No Blood’: Zambian Poet Puts African Voices on the Spoken-Word Stage
- ‘They Make Things Look Cute’: How the Tiktok Generation Is Reshaping Thailand’s Spiritual Life
- Bhutan Mountain Man: Video Diaries From a Lone Glaciologist
- Valley of Lost Cities That Flourished 2,000 Years Ago Found in Amazon
- How New Zealand’s Story in a Million Pictures Was Almost Lost Forever
- To Run the British Museum, You’ll Get $275,000 and a Host of Problems
- South Korea Bans Dog Meat, a Now-Unpopular Food
- Mexican Whiskey Is on the Rise, Powered by Ancient Corn
- The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn’t Exist
January 4, 2024
- ‘Food Is a Tool for Change’: the Turkish Chef Who Empowers Women, Helps Refugees – and Serves a Mean Dobo
- In the Eye of the Climate Storm: Hurricane-Hit Dominica Bets on a Resilient Eco-Future
- Vietnam’s Love Affair With Motorbikes and Mopeds – in Pictures
- ‘We’re Playing Whac-A-Mole’: Why the Aid System Is Broken
- The Farmer, the Dishwasher and the Performance Artist: How War Forced Career Changes on Ukrainian Refugees
- ‘I Can Ride the Bus. I Can Walk the Streets’: the Joy of Freedom for Rohingya Resettled in the Us
- Zig-A-Zig-Pah: Finland’s ‘Spice Girls’ Find Joy in Misery – and a Kaurismäki Collaboration
- Senegal Tackles Prison Overcrowding – in Pictures
- Transatlantic Slavery Continued for Years After 1867, Historian Finds
- From Birch-Tree Juice to Christmas Bread, Our Food Tells the Story of Who We Are
- The Punch That ‘Burst the Bubble’: Residents of Hitler’s Alpine Home Rise up Against Neo-Nazi Visitors
- The Forgotten Human Rights Stories of 2023 – in Pictures
- ‘Fashion Can Change Africa’: the Pioneering Designers Chasing a World of Opportunity
- ‘It’s in My Blood to Make Stuff’: Ins Choi on Bringing Kim’s Convenience Back to the Stage
- Ancestral Spirit: Can Brewing a Traditional Moonshine Help Colombia’s Youth Avoid Gangs?
- This Is a Real Look Into Our Lives’: the Maasai Women Photographing Their People
- Spain’s Annual Els Enfarinats Food Fight – in Pictures
- If You Wanna Mail My Letter, You Gotta Get Some Spice Girls Stamps
- ‘Dinner for One,’ a German New Year’s TV Tradition, Moves Online
- Italy’s Raucous Holiday Classics Are Not Your Standard Hallmark Movies
- Denmark’s Next Queen Is a Progressive, Common-Born Former Australian
- Asian American Officials Cite Unfair Scrutiny and Lost Jobs in China Spy Tensions
- ‘There’s No Other Job’: the Colonial Roots of Philippine Poverty
- How China’s Property Crisis Blew up Bets That Couldn’t Lose
- How to Start the New Year? Keep the Sea Goddess Happy.
- Cats Filled the Prison. Then the Inmates Fell in Love.
- When a Restaurant Is More Than a Place to Dine
