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A life stolen in the name of national purity

How a lynching in the state of Odisha illuminates a wider story in today's India
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What does support for a slain rebel tell us about India today?

As thousands mourn a slain rebel in Bastar, can the state kill a movement without addressing the conditions that gave it life
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How tribal power shapes politics in Iraqi Kurdistan

A deep investigation into the clan networks that bind Kurdistan’s political life
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A lament for Yemen’s cultural renaissance

A rich civic culture was built in Yemen in the 1970s. Much of it has now been dismantled.
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Who moved my job?

As global tech giants shed jobs and AI transforms workflows, India’s IT industry faces a historic reckoning
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Jakarta: The price of belonging in Indonesia’s restless city

In a city where nothing is free, residents daily reckon with the cost of grief
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Hanoi: The scent of memory in Vietnam’s river-nested capital

Mapping the city and treasured memories through its smells
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Yakutsk: Soft communal resistance between talks, ghosts and fake Labubus

The frost arrived early, foreshadowing the quiet end to public education. Resistance here isn't shouted; it's whispered through counterfeit Labubu toys and the wry irony of survivalist memes.
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To be a father in time of annihilation

Palestinian writer and editor Muhammad al-Zaqzouq writes about how the war in Gaza has reshaped the concept of fatherhood for him and his children
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Listening to what is on the dry wind in Semipalatinsk

Atomic legacies from Hiroshima to Kazakhstan
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The Mask Park incident

Jessie Lau explores local reporting on China’s ‘Mask Park Incident’—and what it reveals about the media, state narratives, and sexual exploitation, both online and off
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The Egyptian border’s cruel economy of exploitation

An expansive cross-border investigation into the brutality facing refugees from the war in Sudan
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