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The Collapse of Cuban Tourism: A 58 Percent Drop and Children Without Medicine

An island that lived off sunshine and nostalgia is watching its tourism fall apart under American pressure. When geopolitics is...

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San Andreas Under Its Greatest Strain in 1,000 Years: The Silence Before a Big Quake

The longer the silence lasts, the stronger the blow being prepared. The quiet before an earthquake is the same everywhere...

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Trump Floats New Sanctions on Russia: The Morals Haven't Changed, the Math Has

Cheap oil opened the door for him to hit Russian energy without lighting up prices at home. The sanctions are...

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The Country That Exports Oil to Half the World Has Started Rationing Fuel for Its Own Drivers

Tatneft is handing out 20 litres of petrol per vehicle across Russia. Rationing is a word governments don't say lightly...

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FBI Foils a Plot With an Explosive-Laden Drone for Trump's Birthday: Five Arrested

An elaborate multi-stage plan, 23 suspects on Signal and a sniper team. If a crowd of 23 people spent months...

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Norway's Princess Mette-Marit Has a New Lung: Illness Doesn't Ask About Titles

For months she appeared on oxygen, and now she's had surgery. The palace says the operation went well - but...

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80 Headless Skeletons, 7,000 Years Old, Found in Slovakia: Not a Massacre, but a Ritual

Archaeologists say it was not violent decapitation but skilled removal of the skull. How little we actually know about those...

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Sweden Passes a Law to Report Immigrants: The Beacon of Human Rights Dismantles Its Own

Officials will have to report people without documents; permits get revoked over vague behavior. Once snitching becomes law over there,...

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Cartoonist Who Mocked Putin Shot Dead in Poland: The Pencil Against the Bullet

Semyon Skrepetsky fled Russia in 2011, but death caught up with him on a street in eastern Poland. When a...

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Russia Halts a Gas Pipeline to China: The Pipes No Longer Carry Just Gas, but Geopolitics

Moscow blocked a 35-billion-cubic-meter pipeline through Kazakhstan. When the big players haggle over metals and routes, small markets pay the...

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Hungary Slams the Constitutional Door on Orban: Eight Years and That's Enough

The man who toppled Orban is now methodically dismantling the tools his predecessor ruled with for 16 years. A safeguard...

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Delhi's Asphalt Heats Up to 64 Degrees: the Heat That Kills the Poorest

The forecast says 43, the thermal cameras show 64. The heat baking Delhi today is the same one that hits...

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