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The Week Around the World in 20 Pictures Chaos at New Zealand Feral Cat Hunting Contest as Video of Children Chanting with Dead Animals Emerges 88 Temples, 750 Miles, Untold Gifts: Japan’s Shikoku Pilgrimage Amazon Facing ‘Urgent’ Crime Crisis After Gutting of Protections, Says Drugs Tsar Destruction of World’s Pristine Rainforests Soared in 2022 Despite COP26 Pledge Climate Crisis Linked to Rising Domestic Violence in South Asia, Study Finds Misting Fans and Cooling Canal Swims: China’s North Bakes in Record Heatwave – In Pictures I Looked for Happiness in the World’s Most Contented Nation – and Learned the Importance of Pessimism German Catholic Church ‘Dying Painful Death’ as 520,000 Leave in a Year Disbelief and Anger Among Greek Shipwreck Victims’ Relatives as Millions Spent on Titan Rescue Effort Pompeii Fresco Find Possibly Depicts 2,000-Year-Old Form of Pizza Rare Find of 24 Ancient Bronzes in Tuscany Goes on Display in Rome ‘One Day It Will Just Go Off’: Are Naples’ Volcanic Craters About to Blow? ‘These Works Are an Act of Resistance’: Inside Three Generations of Iranian Female Photography The Days Toppled Over by Vidya Madabushi Review – The Plight of Australia’s International Students India v Pakistan Is Not a Classic Football Rivalry. But It Could Be Ticket to Freedom: Free Bus Rides for Women Spark Joy for Millions in Karnataka How India’s ‘Millet Ambassador’ Preserves Ancient Grains – and Helps Promote Food Security I Could Read the Sky Revisited: Haunting Memories of a Migrant’s Life – In Pictures The Rising Ocean Will Extinguish More than Land. It Will Kill Entire Languages South Koreans Become a Year or Two Younger as Country Changes System for Counting Ages ‘We Fear Leaving the House’: Lebanon and Turkey Step Up Deportations of Syrian Refugees Malta to Allow Abortion But Only When Woman’s Life Is At Risk ‘It’s Every Woman, It’s Us’: Rotterdam Falls for British Statue of Ordinary Black Woman Dutch Football May Turn to ‘English Model’ in Push to Tackle Hooliganism Beyond Munch: Norwegian Art Shares Spotlight with Bubbles the Chimp in Oslo Happy Endings: How a Treasure Trove of Lost Palestinian Music Opened Up a New Thread of Musical History Lima’s Central Restaurant Named World’s Best in Boost for Peruvian Cuisine ‘Like a prison’: Teenage Security Guards Stuck in Qatar After World Cup What’s Behind Saudi Arabia’s Answer to Glastonbury? The Power of Popwashing Muslim Pilgrims Gather on Mount Arafat in Saudi Arabia – in pictures Naps Are Healthy, Scientists Say – So Why Has Spain Given Up on the Siesta? ‘We Could Lose Our Lives at Any Time’: Young Matadors in Málaga – A Photo Essay ‘Here Is the History, the Life’: the Shrine Holding Out Against the Gentrification of Bangkok Istanbul Gay Pride Activists Stage Annual Rally in Defiance of Ban ‘No Ugandan Has Ever Crossed Here’: Reclaiming the African Road Trip Welcome Aboard the Aquidaban, the Floating Jungle Supermarket In These Corners of Kabul, Western Influences Live On They Ride and Lasso Like Texans. They Live 8,000 Miles Away. Taiwan Faces a #MeToo Wave, Set Off by a Netflix Hit Tipping Gets ‘More in Your Face,’ and Not Everyone Likes It Umbria by Train: A Journey into the 'Green Heart of Italy' Saudi Arabia Wants Tourists. It Didn’t Expect Christians.

June 22, 2023

• ‘Get Down From the Car’: Unique Miami Dialect Traced to Cuban Influence
• Transition: the Story of a Trans Journalist Embedded With the Taliban
• Paris Talks to Focus on Funding Poor Countries to Tackle Climate Crisis
• Barbados Fights Big Sugar for the Survival of Its People
• What’s the Caribbean Without Its Beaches? but the People Are Losing Access to Them
• British Museum Offers to Pay Translator After Plagiarism Row
• Germany’s Return of Sacred Kogi Masks to Colombia May Have Health Risks
• ‘They Are Overlooked by Everybody’: Elders in Ethiopia Bear Brunt of the Climate Crisis
• French Cave Markings Said to Be Oldest Known Engravings by Neanderthals
• Death From Overwork: Young Koreans Rebel Against Culture of Long Hours
• Women Behind the Lens: ‘The Next Day She Got a Tattoo of Broken Glass’
• ‘Regulatory Void’: Online Gambling Firms Accused of Exploiting Lucrative African Markets
• TV Tonight: the Young Creatives Giving Africa a Cultural Shake-Up
• Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old ‘Stonehenge of the Netherlands’
• ‘Dutch by Default’: Netherlands Seeks Curbs on English-Language University Courses
• Dutch Study Reveals Extent of Wealth Made Via Slavery From Three Past Rulers
• Massive Strike Pits African Fishers Against ‘Superprofitable’ EU Firms
• ‘The Youth Will Fight’: Why Children Have Joined Senegal Protests
• From Cornish Pasties to Slovenian Potica, Food Is a Language That Everyone Understands
• Virgil Quote Found on Fragment of Roman Jar Unearthed in Spain
• The South Sudanese Families Stranded While Trying to Return Home
• ‘We’Ll Play Until Our Teeth Drop Out!’ the Long, Remarkable Lives of Britain’s Windrush-Era Musicians
• The Big Picture: Another Side of Old Istanbul
• In Iran, Some Are Chasing the Last Drops of Water
• A Basement of Horrors in Seoul, Where Past and Present Collide
• Inside the Barbecue City That Is China’s Hottest Tourist Destination
• On a Caribbean Island, Young People Find Freedom in ‘Bike Life’
• South Korea to Drop ‘Killer Questions’ From College Entrance Exam
• Black Artists Embrace Ancient Egypt. Egyptians Aren’t Happy About It.
• Japan Changes Its Rape Laws to Require Consent
• Decoding the Antiwar Messages of Miniature Protesters in Russia
• Dreaming of a New Iran
• How South Korea Puts Its Food Scraps to Good Use
• They Married for a Life Abroad. but They Never Saw Their Husbands Again

June 15, 2023

• Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK set to Be Made Homeless
• Ukraine War Drove Biggest Rise in Displaced Persons in Decades
• Aid Agencies Raise Alarm as Solo Children Cross Chad Border to Flee Sudan Fighting
• My Imaginary Country Review – Patricio Guzmán Captures Chile’s New Wave of Protest
• Disney’s Little Mermaid Flops in China amid Racist Backlash Over Casting
• La Tomatina: Colombia’s Tomato Fight Festival – in Pictures
• Indigenous Knowledge, Bravery, Vigilance: How Young Siblings Survived in Colombia’s Perilous Jungle
• ‘Solidarity and Unity’ on Show at Fiji Fashion Week 2023 – in pictures
• Tove Jansson’s unseen Moomin sketches to go on show in Paris
• Who’s that Busker on the Streets of Nairobi? Only the World-Famous Cellist Yo-Yo Ma!
• Greek Shipwreck Highlights Divided Libya’s Inability to Stem Flow of Refugees
• Ukraine War Drove Biggest Rise in Displaced Persons in Decades
• Māori Ancestral Remains and Mummified Heads Returned to New Zealand from Germany
• New Zealand’s Warming Seas threaten Māori Food Sources Relied on for Generations
• ‘Protege! Would You Use That Word for a Man?’ Claire Denis on Rum, Africa and Rethinking MeToo
• Disappeared in the Desert: Bodies Lie in the Sand in Niger while Europe Pours Millions into Blocking Migration Route
• China Tries to Shut Down Australian Artist’s Show Promoted by Image of Cannibalistic Xi
• How Saudi Arabia Took Over Professional Golf
• Exhumation of Civil War Dead from Spain’s Valley of Cuelgamuros Begins
• Hygge for the Heat: Max Mara’s Scandi Show Signals Shift in Fashion Zeitgeist
• ‘We Felt That We Are One’: How Turkish Musicians Welcomed Syrian Refugees
• ‘Time of New Hope’: Optimism Is High for Bangkok Pride After Thai Elections
• ‘I Want to Be Part of the Rebirth’: the Artists Bringing Creation Out of Beirut’s Chaos
• Fans Set off Barrage of Fireworks in Celebration Before End of Match in Argentina – Video
• Barbados Fights Big Sugar for the Survival of Its People
• International Booker Winner Georgi Gospodinov: ‘My Dystopian Novel Became Real’
• ‘It’s Like a Death Pit’: How Ghana Became Fast Fashion’s Dumping Ground
• Indonesians Honour the Buddha on Vesak Day – in Pictures
• Rare Birds: How Delhi Brothers’ Avian Ambulance Service Has Taken Wing
• ‘Much Easier to Say No’: Irish Town Unites in Smartphone Ban for Young Children
• Studio Ghibli to Release Hayao Miyazaki’s Final Film With No Trailers or Promotion
• Japan Court Falls Short of Calling Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
• ‘A Watershed’: Meta Ordered to Offer Mental Health Care to Moderators in Kenya
• ‘We Torment Others’: the Dark Side of South Korean School Life
• Replastering Mali’s Great Mosque of Djenné – in Pictures
• Brown, Grimy… and Historic: the Battle to Save Amsterdam’s Old Bars
• Exclusive: Racism, Homophobia Fuelling Thousands of Crimes in New Zealand Each Year, Figures Show
• Singapore Bids Farewell to Horse Racing to Free up Land for Housing
• Behind a Rare Clash, a Fight Over Faith in China
• How a Cracked Phone App Upended a Crime-Ridden Balkan State
• A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity
• Inside the Barbecue City That Is China’s Hottest Tourist Destination
• When Politics Saves Lives: a Good-News Story
• The Immigrant Experience in a Danish Butter Cookie Tin
• For the Indigenous, Was This Building a Gesture of Reconciliation? or an Empty Gift?

June 1, 2023

• ‘I Feel Safe Here’: the People Leaving Everything Behind to Seek Refuge in US
• Fears Looted Nazi Art Still Hanging in European Galleries
• The Spray-Can Vigilantes Shaming Bogotá for Its Perilous Paving Slabs
• Buckingham Palace Declines to Return Remains of ‘Stolen’ Ethiopian Prince, Say Reports
• ‘Regulatory Void’: Online Gambling Firms Accused of Exploiting Lucrative African Markets
• ‘We Are a Forgotten People’: How Rap Music Processed Trauma in Iraq
• South Korea's First Ever Same-Sex Marriage Bill Goes to Parliament
• Malaysia Confiscates ‘LGBT’ Rainbow Swatch Watches
• Romance, Strife, and Broadcasting Rights: African Telenovela Goes Global
• Commission Exposes Injustices Against Norway's Indigenous People
• ‘Suffocating Intimidation’: Female Politicians in Sierra Leone on Sexism and Abuse
• Impact of Warmer Seas on Fish Stocks Leads to Rise in Pirate Attacks
• ‘We Give Our Blood so They Live Comfortably’: Sri Lanka's Tea Pickers Say They Go Hungry and Live in Squalor
• ‘This Is an Epidemic’: Inside the Thai Clinic Taking on Westerners’ Gaming Addictions
• Yemen: Beauty on the Edge of War – Photo Essay
• ‘Death by a Thousand Cuts’ for Ireland’s Fishing Fleets
• Iceland Is a Magnet for Tourists. Its First Lady Has Some Advice for Them.