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How three young dutchmen cornered the nitrous oxide market

Nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, is an illegal drug in the Netherlands. Yet Dutch streets are inundated with empty canisters, often labelled “FastGas”. Where do the canisters come from, and
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Volkswagen slave labour at Amazon cattle ranch

Brazil’s Labour Ministry has accused Volkswagen of enslaving hundreds of rural workers between 1974 and 1986 in a cattle and logging operation in the Amazon region, allegedly with support from
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Who owns the story?

Behind the soaring profits of Sweden’s publishing giants, lies a bitter power struggle
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The mud that’s killing Gabès

How a byproduct from Tunisia’s fertiliser industry has brought environmental disaster to an ecologically crucial stretch of its southern coastline—and sparked a protest movement to try to stop it
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War and faith

An evangelical preacher’s journey from the world of crime to the kingdom of Jesus
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Listening to what is on the dry wind in Semipalatinsk

Atomic legacies from Hiroshima to Kazakhstan
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Obsessed with the mess

Searching Belgium’s secondhand shops for forgotten treasures
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Massacre of the penguins

A journey into a Patagonian mystery, piecing together the crime that led to a historic trial
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Bamburu Awith (The wasps are here)

The film that still resonates in contemporary Sri Lanka, half a century after it was made
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Russia’s war on minority languages

Translator speaks to four representatives on the linguistic frontline
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The Egyptian circus and its victims

Living and dying with lions (and tigers) on the Nile
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