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May 29, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin
-Analysis-Suspicions of foul play in the recent helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi are increasingly turning into a headache — and maybe eventually something far worse — for the Iranian regime. The hardline 63-year-old Raisi, along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and six other passengers and crew, died after the aging chopper flying them toward Tabriz in northern Iran crashed into fog-ridden mountains on May 19.
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May 29, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin |Mustafa Ibrahim
As heat settles in, so does the height of grindadráp. Between Iceland and Norway, the Faroe Islands practice whaling in drive hunts known as the grindadráp, or “grind." For years, activists have called for an end to this practice, which has been called a “cruel and outdated tradition."The Faroese government has said that this form of traditional hunting still makes "economic and environmental good sense".
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin |Jose Cano |José A. Cano |Lucie Robequain |Yannick Champion- OsselinEthic
Updated January 15, 2024 at 2:30 p.m.-Analysis-Sweden has been putting the brakes on the progressive digitalization of education.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin
PARIS — Algeria’s national anthem, Kassaman (Oath), is a war song penned by jailed nationalist and poet Moufdi Zakaria in 1955 during the Algerian War of Independence against the French colonialists. Three out of five verses evoke fighting the colonization of Algeria, with the most controversial verse being the third, which calls out France directly. In the 1980s, to avoid diplomatic tensions with Paris, Algeria decreed that the third verse could be omitted if the circumstances called for it.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Kristian Frigelj |Yannick Champion-Osselin |Marine Béguin |Valeria Berghinz
✅ SIGN UP This is our daily newsletter Worldcrunch Today, a rapid tour of the news of the day from the world's best journalism sources, regardless of language or geography. It's easy (and free!) to sign up to receive it each day in your inbox: 👉 Sign up here🌎 7 THINGS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW • Ukraine drone strikes near Russian nuclear plant: A Ukrainian drone struck the western Russian town of Kurchatov, just a few kilometers from the Kursk nuclear power station.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Katarzyna Skiba |Yannick Champion-Osselin |Marine Béguin |Valeria Berghinz
Beginning this year, students in Wodzisław Śląski, a city of 50,000 in southern Poland, will only have four days of traditional school classes per week. The reduced schedule — which comes along with fewer tests and new assessment criteria — were an initiative that came from the citizen grassroots level and ultimately was approved by municipal authorities, reports Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Emma Albright |Yannick Champion-Osselin |Valeria Berghinz
North Korea has accused the United States and its allies of creating instability in waters off the Korean Peninsula that could lead to a nuclear war, a warning that followed the U.S., South Korea and Japan staging joint naval exercises (pictured above).
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Aug 28, 2023 | 
worldcrunch.com | Yannick Champion-Osselin |Valeria Berghinz |Katarzyna Skiba
👋 Bunâ!*Welcome to Monday, where Russia says DNA tests confirm the death of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash last week, Zimbabwe’s “Crocodile” gets reelected amid accusations of vote manipulation, and Spain saddles up for its yearly horse festival. Meanwhile, Die Welt’s Fabian Peltsch touches base with Taiwan’s “Buddhist death metal” scene.
