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November 21, 2025
- Inside the Dawn Patrols Where San Diego Teachers Track ICE: ‘we Have to Resist’
- Borderline Ambiguity: How Google Maps Removes Disputed Western Sahara Border for Morocco Users
- Slow-vakia? Law Setting Speed Limits for Cyclists, Skaters Derided in Bratislava
- ‘We Can Have Art and Greenery’: Black Muse Festival Marks Opening of Sculpture Park in Benin City
- Born in the Forest: the Women Giving Birth Alone in the Kashmiri Mountains
- Archaeologists Find Ancient Canoes Used by Indigenous People in Wisconsin
- ‘Fashion Has the Power to Create Jobs, Preserve Culture and Transform Lives’: is Lagos the World’s Most Exciting Fashion Week?
- Protesters Target Major New Nigerian Museum Embroiled in Looted Artefacts Row
- An Existential Battle of Interests: What the Sudanese War is Actually About
- Christie’s Withdraws Rare ‘First Calculator’ From Auction After French Court Halts Export
- The Wild Old Wicked Gang: Great Irish Writers – in Pictures
- ‘Dangerous Nostalgia’: Did Spain’s ‘Pact of Forgetting’ After Franco Leave New Generation Open to Far Right?
- UN to Hear Human Rights Complaint Over New Zealand’s Treatment of Māori
- Rome Decries ‘Italian-sounding’ Pasta Sauces on Sale in EU Parliament Store
- The Real Cost of U.S. Car Batteries
- Convicted Australian Murderer Sues for Vegemite, Demanding Prisons Allow the Spread
- Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View
- Mexico is Not Just the Top Supplier to the U.S. Now It is the Top Buyer.
- Vatican to Return Indigenous Cultural Items to Canada Taken a Century Ago
- Indigenous People, Long Sidelined at Climate Talks, Take the Stage in Brazil
- Mexico City Loves Street Food. Its Sewer System Does Not.
- Northern Ireland Must Change How Its Schools Teach Religion, Court Says
- Pasta at Twice the Price? Some Italian Producers Face Huge U.S. Tariffs.
- Pope Leo Urges Cinema Notables to Redouble Focus on Social Justice
- Where Mao’s Peasants Tilled the Soil, Tourists Now Pay for the View
November 14, 2025
- Italian ‘Mystic’ Faces Fraud Trial Over Claim Virgin Mary Statue Wept Blood
- From Kenya to Madagascar, the African Countries Struggling to Escape Old Politics
- Guns, Gangs and Drought: How Crime and the Climate Crisis Are Reshaping Haiti
- Archaeologists Discover How Oldest American Civilisation Survived a Climate Catastrophe
- ‘You Britons Go to the Pub, we Go to the Swimming Pool!’: the European Health Habits Worth Adopting
- Why Does UK Government Want to Copy Denmark’s Immigration System?
- Britain One of Least ‘Nature-connected’ Nations in World – With Nepal the Most
- A Dutch War Cemetery Added Displays Showing Black US Soldiers. Then They Were Quietly Removed
- Orphans of History: the Forgotten Republic of Transnistria – Photo Essay
- Amid Japan’s Surge in Bear Attacks, a Torrent of AI-generated Videos is Adding to Anxiety
- ‘Fashion Has the Power to Create Jobs, Preserve Culture and Transform Lives’: is Lagos the World’s Most Exciting Fashion Week?
- The Man on a Mission to Save Mauritania’s ‘City of Libraries’ From Encroaching Desert Sands
- Mexico Takes Action to Combat Sexual Abuse After President Publicly Groped
- Extremely Offline: What Happened When a Pacific Island Was Cut Off From the Internet – Podcast
- The Village Where Draft-Age Men Have Mostly Vanished
- As Aquifers Dry Up, Tehran Rations Water and Calls for Rain Prayers
- Seven Years for Antiwar Stickers? Russian Activist Would Do It Again.
- Facing Trump’s Tariffs, Swiss Farmers Find Themselves With Too Much Milk
- The Thai Island Escape That’s an Antidote to ‘White Lotus’ Frenzy
- How China Reached Into New York to Stop a Tiny Film Festival
- In China, the Dream of Outrunning Time
- What I Learned From the ‘New Globalists’ of an Optimistic Nation
- Miss Universe Organizer Apologizes After Tirade at Miss Mexico
- Canadian Travel to the U.S. Declines for 10th Straight Month
- 36 Hours in Cozumel, Mexico
- Indigenous Protesters Clash With Guards at U.N. Climate Summit
- How Canada Lost Decades of Progress in Fighting Measles
- Before Bad Bunny, the World Had Juan Gabriel
- Second Migrant Child Dies on ‘Reverse Migration’ Boat Route
- Gay Russians Find a Haven on the Other Side of the World
- A Canadian Factory Town Blames Trump’s Tariffs for ‘a Punch to the Gut’
- Cracking Down on What Can Be Called Kente Cloth
- Even Without Benin Bronzes, This New Museum Aims to Be a Powerhouse
November 7, 2025
- ‘People Are Always Looking for a Scapegoat’: Tensions Rise in UK’s Asylum and Refugee Hotspot
- Orphans of History: the Forgotten Republic of Transnistria – Photo Essay
- ‘We Can Have Art and Greenery’: Black Muse Festival Marks Opening of Sculpture Park in Benin City
- Danes Are Europe’s Keenest Nudists in Principle and Practice, Survey Suggests
- How a Radical Experiment to Bring a Forest Into a Preschool Transformed Children’s Health
- Cancer, Lung Disease, Miscarriages: Are Uruguay’s Rice Workers Paying Too High a Price to Bring in the Crop?
- Threats, Fear and Hope as Mumbai Slum Dwellers Await the Bulldozers
- View From the Border: the Wall Dividing the US and Mexico – in Pictures
- Lessons for Liberals: What Can Dutch Progressives’ Victory Over Populism Teach the World?
- How Could Tropical Forest Forever Fund Proposed at Cop30 Tackle Deforestation?
- As Record Numbers Leave New Zealand, Why Are Most People Choosing Australia?
- Big Trouble in ‘Little Berlin’: the Tiny Hamlet Split in Two by the Cold War
- Britain One of Least ‘Nature-connected’ Nations in World – With Nepal the Most
- Archaeologists Discover How Oldest American Civilisation Survived a Climate Catastrophe
- Bookstores on Edge as Kremlin Sets Sights on Policing Books
- In Some Parts of Scotland, ‘the Only Thing we Need is People’
- The Netherlands Will Return Looted Pharoah-Era Artifact to Egypt
- The Alps Are Melting, but the Villagers Will Not Be Moved
- In China, Victims of Abuse Are Told to ‘Keep It in the Family’
- Inspired by Rome’s Pantheon: an Underground Art Cave in South Korea
- With ‘a Billion’ Eyes on Them, India’s Women Lift Cricket World Cup
- Working Past 100? in Japan, Some People Never Quit.
- For Day of the Dead, One Mexican Town Digs up Its Dead
- Cleaning Bones for Day of the Dead
- The Mystery Lady in the Governor’s Palace? Maybe a Ghost, He Says
- Scars in the Blue Mosque Reveal Afghanistan’s Rifts
- Nigeria, in Trump’s Cross Hairs, Rejects Christian Genocide Claims
- A South African Choreographer’s ‘Pinch Me’ Moment in Paris
November 1, 2025
- Secret Mining Studies and Private Deals: is a New Gold Rush Quietly Starting in El Salvador?
- 10 International Kitchen Staples Most Americans Haven’t Caught on to yet
- ‘Still Work to Be Done’: Iceland Marks 50 Years Since Women’s Day Off Protests
- Nusantara, Indonesia’s Planned New Political Capital – Explained in 30 Seconds
- Indigenous and Environmental Leaders in Ecuador Say They Are Facing State Intimidation
- Donegal to Dakar: the Irish Play About British Rule Hitting Home in Post-colonial Senegal
- ‘It’s More About Life Than Death’: the Growing Popularity of Berlin’s Cemetery Cafes
- Not to Be: Hamlet Rages in Stockholm Against the Political Closure of a Cultural Institution
- Africa’s Children: 20 Years On, What Happened to the Millennium Babies?
- Plain Rice and Little Else: Life for 120,000 Refugees Inside Mauritania’s Vast Camp on Mali’s Border
- ‘Every Day’s a Fight’: Join the Commuters in Africa’s Rapidly Growing Cities
- Brazil and Peru Are Failing Uncontacted Peoples – and the Amazon’s Future is at Stake
- ‘Was I Fully Grasping These Events?’ Everyday Life for Afghans – in Pictures
- Explainer Antarctic Krill: How Did a Paperclip-sized Crustacean Cause a Diplomatic Row – and Why Are They so Important?
- Greece Accuses British Museum of ‘Provocative Indifference’ Over Pink Ball
- Free Medical Cover Has Revolutionised Healthcare in India. so Why is It Ailing?
- ‘Scamming Became the New Farming’: Inside India’s Cybercrime Villages
- ‘We Are Both Freedom Fighters’: Africa Exhibition at War-damaged Kyiv Gallery Strikes a Chord
- Four Feet Higher and Rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Becomes World’s Tallest Church
- Diphtheria, a Once Vanquished Killer of Children, is Resurgent
- Inside the Heist That Shocked the World
- 10,000 Tales From a 17th-Century Crypt
- In Ancient Spain, a Nail Through the Skull Could Mean Enmity, or Honor
- A Missing Picasso is Found, and a Small Spanish Town Loses Its Air of Mystery
- A Norwegian Who Admired Inuit Underwear and Found the Northwest Passage
- 36 Hours in Chang Mai
- South Korea’s Hosting Anxiety: a City Rich in History but Not Hotel Rooms
- A Furniture Town Reels From Trump’s Tariffs (and Braces for More)
- For These Women, the American Dream is in Mexico City
- New Crack at an Ancient Puzzle Reignites Debate for Archaeologists
