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‘I Broke Completely’: How Jobseekers From Africa Are Being Tricked Into Slavery in Asia’s Cyberscam Compounds ‘A Symbol of Liberation’: How the One Piece Manga Flag Became the Symbol of Asia’s Gen Z Protest Movement Airstrikes, Banditry, Drones and a Ban on Girls’ Education: Four Teachers on Educating Students Amid Conflict From Colombo to Kathmandu, the Furious Youth Movements Toppling Entrenched Elites Women Behind the Lens: ‘a Quiet Act of Resistance Where Words Are Silenced’ Young Finns Snub Their Mother Tongue by Reading in English Just a Pole and Line, Like They Fished as Boys: How a Maldives Tradition is Ensuring Tuna Populations Thrive Wealthy Investors From US, China and Hong Kong Top Applications for New Zealand’s ‘Golden Visa’ Scheme A Curious Incident … Dog in Night Watch Was a Copy by Rembrandt, Expert Claims How Trump Has Turned the Legal System ‘on Its Head’ to Meet Deportation Goals Revealed: the Huge Growth of Myanmar Scam Centres That May Hold 100,000 Trafficked People ‘Artefacts Were Just Sitting in Suitcases in People’s Homes’: the London Museum Preserving Somali Culture ‘Food Forests Are Everything’: Creating Edible Landscapes Helps Nature Thrive in Afro-descendant Lands A US Haven for Refugees Was Divided Over Trump – Now Immigration Crackdown Has Left a ‘Community Breaking’ Analysis Generational Change or Gender Breakthrough, Whoever Japan’s Next PM is Will Have a Mountain to Climb ‘When the Forests Burn, the Sickness Comes’: How Protecting Trees Shields Millions From Disease ‘It Kept Our Spirits Alive’: Taliban’s Internet Blackout Leaves Girls in Despair Norway Finds Place in Spotlight During ‘Golden Age’ of Film-making ‘Men Don’t Know Why They Became Unhappy’: the Toxic Gender War Dividing South Korea Letters Found on EBay Cast Light on UK Families Who Benefited From Slavery ‘They Grabbed Us Like Dogs’: Deportation Quotas Tear Haitian Migrants’ Lives Apart Croatian Village Breaks World Record With 3km Strudel Chain How Kenyan Villagers Saved Their Sacred Caves From a Mining Company Where No Trees Grow, Fresh Strawberries All Year Round In Mexico, New Mothers Are Seeking Out Old Rituals Zubeen Garg, Singer Who Charmed India With a Bollywood Hit, Dies at 52 Tahiti on the Cheap Books by Kiran Desai, Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura Lead Booker Prize Shortlist The Curious Incident of the Dog in ‘the Night Watch’ 15 Years Into the Boom, Iceland Asks If It’s Had Enough of Mass Tourism Reuniting the Great Works of the Patron Saint of Artists Jane Austen’s Birthday Party is B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bonnet) A Rush to Save Ancient Artifacts in Gaza Highlights All That Has Been Lost

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September 18, 2025

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• Africa is Big, and It Wants the World’s Maps to Show It
• The Flavor of Quebec is Sweet, Savory and Worth the Trip
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• Hong Kong’s Dim Sum Cart ‘Aunties’ Make Their Final Rounds
• ‘Shockingly Beautiful’ Fossil Reveals Oldest Dome-Headed Dinosaur
• A Forgotten Cosmic Impact Was Hidden in a Museum’s Glass Shards
• Why Korean Fandom is so Intense, According to the Star of ‘Squid Game’
• In Toronto, a Spotlight on Canadian Films
• Scotch and the Sea: Venturing Into the Soul of the Hebrides
• A Bucolic Stone-Skimming Contest in Scotland is Infiltrated by Cheaters
• The 8 Buildings You Must See in Stockholm
• ‘You’re Going About Your Day and Suddenly See a Little Godzilla’: Bangkok Reckons With a Giant Lizard Boom
• ‘It Belongs to Everyone’: the Black Kenyans Dispelling Perceptions of Horse Racing
• ‘I’m From Where You Learn to Run Before You Can Walk’: the Comic Strip Artist Telling the Story of DRC’s Conflict
• Picasso Painting Not Seen for 80 Years Unveiled by Paris Auction House
• Oodles of Lucys: Survey Reveals Australia’s Most Popular Dog Breeds and Names
• A Dance Done by the Whole World’: South African Choreographer Dreams of Global Reach
• Sydney 2000: 25 Years Since the ‘Best Olympic Games Ever’ – in Pictures

September 11, 2025

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• Not Just Resisting, but Leading the Fight: Five Women Who Refuse to Be Ignored
• ‘Artefacts Were Just Sitting in Suitcases in People’s Homes’: the London Museum Preserving Somali Culture
• Late Teenage Coder Made First Millennial Catholic Saint by Pope Leo at Vatican
• Croatian Village Breaks World Record With 3km Strudel Chain
• The Colombian Coastal Village Reinventing Itself as Seas Rise
• Mexican Festivals in Chicago Canceled Amid Trump Plans to Deploy Troops
• ‘Food is Political’: the TikTok Star Shining a Light on South African Cuisine’s Hidden Gems
• 852 Athletes, Countless Gilets and a Man Dressed as a Cathedral: How Darude’s Sandstorm Inspired a 6.7km Fun Run
• Japanese Man Becomes Oldest Person to Reach Mount Fuji Summit at 102
• ‘People Say My Music Helps Them Heal’: Canada’s First Nations Musicians Revitalise the Powwow
• What Happened to Mexico City’s Food Scene? Americans.
• Why 7-Eleven and Other Convenience Stores in Japan Are so Special
• 3 Days of ‘Momijigari’: Experiencing Japan’s Fiery Autumnal Foliage
• A Japanese Island Preserves an Ancient and Ghostly Theater Form
• A Verdi Masterwork, Lost in Italian Translation, Returns to the Stage

September 4, 2025

• Remnants of 2,000-year-old Sunken City Lifted Out of the Sea Off Alexandria
• ‘I Sit Alone and Talk to Myself’: a Family Ripped Apart by Europe’s Migration Crisis
• Turned Away at US Border, Venezuelans Languish in Panamanian ‘Purgatory’
• Women Behind the Lens: ‘a Quiet Act of Resistance Where Words Are Silenced’
• ‘I Can’t Sleep, I Can’t Get on With My Life’: How Europe’s Tougher Rules Are Keeping Families Apart
• A Deeper Story: Photography From Australia and New Zealand – in Pictures
• ‘Artefacts Were Just Sitting in Suitcases in People’s Homes’: the London Museum Preserving Somali Culture
• Trump’s Aid Cuts in East Africa Led to Unwanted Abortion and Babies Being Born With HIV – Report
• Not Just Resisting, but Leading the Fight: Five Women Who Refuse to Be Ignored
• Brazil’s Amazon Love Motels Ditch Erotic Decor to Host Cop30 Climate Summit
• Archaeologists in Peru Discover 3D Mural That Could Date Back 4,000 Years
• ‘What Reconciliation? What Forgiveness?’: Syria’s Deadly Reckoning
• US Flight Attendants Push to Be Paid When Planes Aren’t in the Air: ‘Most of Our Passengers Have No Idea’
• Man Who’d Served His Time in U.S. is Deported to an African Prison
• Congo Has Astronomical Rates of Sexual Violence. Now Victims Have Lost Access to Care.
• The Space Rock Stars of Brazil
• A Conservative Canadian Province Backs Off a Book Ban
• After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Aided Men but Not Women
• In Tariff Standoff With Trump, China Boycotts American Soybeans
• ‘Linda Linda Linda’: These Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• The Communist Warrior Stranded for Decades in an ‘American Colony’
• His Muse: Ancient Cambodian Statues. His Medium? Graffiti.
• A City Reinvented: Paris is Now Greater Paris
• The Cultural Kingdom Where Classical Music Still Reigns
• The Day-Trippers Come for Trieste
• Ukrainian Students Start New School Year in Underground Classrooms
• How the Lisbon Funicular Works and Where It Crashed
• 36 Hours in Costa Brava, Spain
• Exploring Daphne Du Maurier’s Cornwall