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Making borscht in Tokyo

One of Japan’s leading daily newspapers tracks down the Ukrainian refugees seven time zones away from home If you happen to be in Tokyo next Thursday afternoon, you might consider

Hard sell, soft sell

An Italian journalist explores the links between the iconic telemarketers of the 1980s and selling online today There’s a scene in Paolo Sorrentino’s 2018 film Loro in which a character bearing an

The pain and the beauty

A French journalist talks about his time as a hostage in Mali, and how he sees the future Oliver Dubois tried to escape from his captors in Mali four times.

Canute’s comeuppance

The anniversary of a historic Danish flood provokes a journey into history, maps, climate and the future Humanity has long struggled with the question of how much it is master

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