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May 21, 2024

• International Booker Prize Goes to Novel Originally Written in Mandarin Chinese for the First Time
• ‘The End of the Road’: the Man on a Mission to Take Barcelona Back From Overtourism
• The Guardian View on Domestic Workers: Indonesia Shows That, Against the Odds, They Are Fighting for Their Rights
• ‘Tearing Down Barriers’: North Korean Footballers Arrive in Seoul for First Time in Eight Years
• Parody Cockroach Janta Political Party’s Rise Reflects Youth Anger in India
• High Risk yet Home to Thousands: the Makeshift Towns at the Mercy of Landslides and Floods in Peru
• Forced Disappearances, Killings and Torture: Why is Ecuador’s Brutal Drug War Being Backed by the West?
• ‘Brits Are Not as Groovy as Us – but They’re Less Square Than Europeans’: How Drum’n’bass United Brazil and the UK
• Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Records Lowest Deforestation in 40 Years
• Full Steam Ahead: How ‘Navy Curry’ Conquered Hearts in Japan
• ‘The Devil’s Child’: the Rise and Fall of the Only Female Yakuza
• Purple Pain: Backlash Over Mexico City’s ‘Axolotlisation’ for World Cup
• The Brothers Who Made Virginia Woolf the Talk of Cannes
• Ebola Outbreak Opens Old Wounds About 'Saving Africans'
• The South Koreans Cheering for a Visiting North Korean Soccer Team
• China Wants A.I. to Flourish, but Not at the Expense of Jobs
• 'Eternal Flame' Still Burns After Fire That Destroyed Buddhist Hall in Japan
• This Pacific Island Nation Hopes You Will Call It by a New Name
• He Shut Liquor Stores and Banned Abortion, All for the Glory of Russia
• Erdogan Wants Turkey to Have More Babies. Few Parents Are Listening
• In Berlin, Cars Are a Culture War Flashpoint

May 14, 2024

• Cape Verde Bets on Tech to Reverse Postcolonial Brain Drain
• Iran War Costs Toyota £3bn as Prices of Materials Soar and Sales Fall
• ‘It’s Like a Trans-Barbie World!’: the Indian Festival Where Transgender Women Can Celebrate Without Fear
• Naked Jetskiers, Human Bells and a Celebrity Seagull! Venice Biennale’s Wildest Moments – in Pictures
• Public Health at Risk Across Asia as Iran Crisis Sends Price of Cooking Gas Soaring
• They Were Hunted by the Taliban for Helping the US. Now, Trump Wants to Send These Families to the DRC
• Les Simpson: Return of Québécois Show Spares Viewers From ‘European French’
• Internal Displacements Caused by Violence or Conflict at Record High in 2025
• France Passes Law Easing Process of Returning Looted Art
• Who Owns These Artworks? a Museum Hopes Visitors Can Help Find Out.
• 36 Hours on the Amalfi Coast
• A Paradise for Food Lovers in the Swedish Countryside
• Are These the Bones of the Fourth Musketeer? This Dutch Village Hopes So.
• Searching Paris for Ben Franklin, America’s ‘Least-Dead’ Founder
• London Rooftop Where Beatles Played Last Gig to Become Museum
• The Man Who Cuts the Perfect Slice of Ham

May 7, 2024

• Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tyla and More Took African Pop Global. so Why Don’t They Tour Africa Itself?
• How Cuban Doctors Vital to Latin America Are Being Squeezed Out by the US
• North Korean Women’s Football Club Headed to Seoul in Rare Trip Across the Border
• The ‘Big Durian’: One Day in Jakarta, the World’s Largest City
• ‘They Have Built a Machine That Pulls Out Their Mother Tongue’: Why Tibet’s Children ‘Think They Are Chinese’
• Vienna’s Public Transport is the Envy of the World – so Why Can’t It Ditch Cars?
• Inside Smoky Shelters, a Fast-paced, Illegal Card Game Has Taken Off in Solomon Islands
• ‘We Feel Angry – and we Have Reason to Be’: Brazil’s Resurgent Punk Scene is a Howl of Outrage at Injustice
• Up to 2cm a Month: Nasa Keeps Track as Mexico City Sinks Into the Groun
• Can Promises on Gender Equality Made in Australia Help a 16-year-old Indian Cigarette Maker With No Toilet?
• ‘Mothers Won’t Die, Babies Can Survive’: New Maternal Hospital Opens in World’s Largest Refugee Camp
• Japan Sees Largest Protest in Support of Pacifist Constitution as PM Takaichi Pushes Revisions
• Yoko Ono Trademark Challenge Leaves Sour Taste for John Lemon Beer Maker
• France Passes Law Easing Process of Returning Looted Art
• What a Bike Ride Showed Me About Apartheid’s Legacy
• World Cup or Bust: Going Into Debt, Sleeping 10 to a Room and Layovers for Days
• Reclaiming the Name of the Black Hero Who Inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’
• Illegal Miners Loot Amazon Rainforest for Critical Minerals
• Air-Conditioning is in Short Supply as Asia Swelters
• Meditating or Rebooting? a Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea.
• Chasing K-Pop Stardom Nearly Destroyed Her. Then Came ‘Demon Hunters.’
• How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia
• My Art Will Go On: Titanic Artifacts May Soon Be Auctioned
• France Passes Law Easing Process of Returning Looted Art
• These Toilets in Venice Have the Art World Aflush
• They Never Knew a World Before Smartphones. Could They Survive Without Them?

May 1, 2024

• ‘I Should Not Have Wished for War’: Six Ordinary Iranians on How the US-Israel Conflict Has Changed Them
• Lost Copy of Seventh-century Poem in Old English Discovered at Rome Library
• From National Pride to Fascism: How Countries Have Used the World Cup to Build Identity
• Masterful Images of Indian Life – in Pictures
• The Elite ‘Doctors’ Who Care for Mount Everest
• ‘The Birds Are a Global Citizen’: Indigenous Groups in Australia and Alaska Team Up to Track a Feathered Adventurer’s Epic Journey
• ‘Sensitive, Sexy and Surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie Festival
• Return of Aparicio Painting to Prado Exemplifies Trajectory of Human Taste
• ‘It Will Never Cover What’s Authentic’: African Music Industry Weighs up AI Risks and Rewards
• ‘If Your Wife Asks You to Change Diapers, Change Your Wife’: the Arabic Hit Show That Parodies the Patriarchy
• ‘Street Culture is About Revolution’: Brazilian ‘Hip-hop’ Painter Paulo Nimer Pjota
• Blazing a Trail for a Traditional Korean Zither in Jazz
• ‘A Constant Quiet Terror’: Getting Lost in Irish Folklore – in Pictures