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Hungarian filmmakers struggle despite Oscar attention
The Brutalist,” a winner of three Academy awards, was shot almost entirely in Hungary. The central European country has ...
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San Diego residents keep watch for ICE agents
Some immigrant rights activists in San Diego are responding to President Donald Trump’s plans to launch “the largest deportation operation in American history” by alerting local communities about ICE ...
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La Paz’s cable car system — the world’s longest and highest — is cutting down commute times
Sitting at 12,000 feet above sea level, Bolivia’s La Paz has the highest altitude of any administrative capital of any ...
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Rare cyclone batters Brisbane and Australia’s Gold Coast
Over the weekend, residents of Brisbane, Australia, were bracing for the impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred. The storm was ...
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Violence erupts in Syria’s coastal region
Approximately a thousand people are estimated to have been killed in Syria’s coastal region after violence that followed an ...
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Cargo ship collides with an oil tanker in the North Sea
Today, a cargo ship ran into a tanker that was carrying fuel for the US military. All crew members survived, but one has been hospitalized. Potential environmental damage is still being assessed, ...
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South African playwright who depicted apartheid and its aftermath has died
Athol Fugard worked with Black actors to create plays about life under apartheid in South Africa, often drawing from small personal moments, then telescoping them into wider observations of society.
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Immigrant storytellers in the US are afraid to take the stage
Suitcase Stories is an 8-year-old program in the Boston area, meant to give immigrants a chance to share their journeys with a larger community. But recently, three foreign-born storytellers scheduled ...
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How scam factories in Southeast Asia reel in marks and make big bucks
Scam Factories, a special series from The Conversation Weekly, takes you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal scamming compounds. The Conversation’s UK podcast looked at how these compounds, hidden in plain ...
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Syria witnesses major violence in coastal region
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is estimating that approximately a thousand people have been killed in major violence in Syria’s coastal region. The violence began after an attack on ...
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Mark Carney named Canada’s prime minister
Canada’s new leader, Mark Carney, has led the central banks of two separate countries through financial crises. As prime minister of Canada, he’ll be putting his fiscal policy bona fides to the test ...
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Far-right frontrunner banned from Romanian presidential election redo
Extreme-right candidate Calin Georgescu stunned many in Romania when he won the first round of a presidential vote in November. This weekend, he was barred from participating in May’s presidential ...