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Friday, February 20

• Apocalypse No: How Almost Everything We Thought We Knew About the Maya is Wrong
• Lunar New Year 2026: Year of the Fire Horse Around the World – in Pictures
• Credit Cards Cancelled, Google Accounts Closed: ICC Judges on Life Under Trump Sanctions
• Coffee-growing Countries Becoming Too Hot to Cultivate Beans, Analysis Finds
• ‘People Are in Awe’: Exhibition Unveils Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
• ‘I Feel Like a Ghost’: New Father Deported by ICE to Bhutan That Exiled His Family
• Beats and Throat Singing: Sámi DJs Tap Into Growing Pride in Indigenous Identity
• Say Goodbye to the Sex Drought! What the Danes Can Teach Us About Making More Love
• ‘The Normal Should Be Darkness’: Why One Belgian National Park is Turning Off ‘Pointless’ Streetlights
• Spanish-speaking Bad Bunny Stirs Lost Latin Identity Among Brazil’s Music Fans
• ‘A Joyful Day’: Final Piece of Sagrada Familia’s Central Tower Put in Place
• No Fuel, No Tourists, No Cash – This Was the Week the Cuban Crisis Got Real
• The True Cost of Ecuador’s Perfect Roses: How the Global Flower Trade Poisons Workers
• A Mission of Mine’: During Ramadan, Sudanese Food is a Reminder of What is at Stake in a Time of War
• ‘Invisible’ Children Born in the Brothels of Bangladesh Finally Get Birth Certificates
• ‘A Small Africa in Colombia’: the Palenqueras of Cartagena
• The Secret Afghan Women’s Book Club Defying the Taliban to Read Orwell
• Thai Police Go Undercover as Lion Dancers to Catch Thief
• ‘In the End, You Feel Blank’: India’s Female Workers Watching Hours of Abusive Content to Train AI
• ‘Corn Lady’ Builds a Culinary Empire, With a Side of Scorn
• In Africa, Jesse Jackson Was Esteemed for His Fight Against Apartheid
• Can’t Buy Love? Kenya Bans Bouquets Made of Cash.
• 11 Million Visitors Short: Inside America’s Continuing Tourism Slump
• A Rio Carnival Party That Goes on and on
• Love Without Limits: Brazil Flirts With Polyamory
• How Did Draco Malfoy Get Mixed up With Lunar New Year?
• Why Other Democracies Don’t Gerrymander Like the U.S.
• Spain to Investigate Social Media Giants, Escalating Trans-Atlantic Tech Dispute
• How Spain is Carving a Different Path on Immigration
• What French Romance Novels Could Tell Us About A.I. and Translation Jobs
• Elephant Bone in Spain May Be Proof of Hannibal’s Tanks With Trunks
• A Ban on Makeup in Syria Has Some Red in the Face
• Life in Beirut Beneath the Drones

Friday, February 13

• Ireland’s Basic Income for the Arts Scheme Becomes Permanent
• Palau Lawmakers Vote to Block Controversial Trump Deal to Resettle Migrants From US
• Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian Highlife Pioneer and Guitarist, Dies Age 90
• No One Owns Our Arctic Land, we Share It, Say Greenland’s Inuit
• People Living in Cuba: Tell Us How You Are Affected by the Fuel Blockade
• ‘They’d Rarely Seen Television’: Childhood Magic in Rural Colombia – in Pictures
• ‘Movies Can Change the World but Not in a Political Way’ Says Wim Wenders
• Music, Bollywood Stars and a Party Vibe: Why India’s Literature Festivals Are About so Much More Than Books
• ‘Women’s Freedoms Are at Stake’: Concern at Rise of Islamist Party Before Bangladesh Election
• Portugal Urged to Adapt to Climate Emergency After Series of Deadly Storms
• ‘A White Man’s War, a Black Man’s Fight’: the Eye-opening Story of Black Soldiers in Vietnam
• From Nightmarish Noir to Bolero on Trampolines: the Audacious Holland Dance Festival Hits Dizzy Heights
• São Paulo Names New Law After Dog That Stayed by Owner’s Grave for 10 Years
• ‘A Free Limo is Hard to Turn Away’: How Car Diplomacy Turbo Charges Politics in the Pacific
• Traditional Food Could Help Reverse Nepal’s ‘Diabetes Epidemic’, Studies Suggest
• ‘At 2 AM, It Feels Like Someone’s There’: Why Nigerians Are Choosing Chatbots to Give Them Advice and Therapy
• Ohio City Stands up to Trump’s ‘Attitude of Hate’ Toward Haitian Community
• 36 Hours in Lagos, Nigeria
• How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children
• Rethinking Shakespeare in Shanghai
• How to Get From ‘Derry Girls’ to ‘Heaven’: Via Comedic Mystery
• 36 Hours in Seville, Spain
• Nobel Novelist Orhan Pamuk Finally Gets the Netflix Series He Wanted
• Away From Pomp of Olympics, Homeless Shiver on Streets of Milan

Friday, February 6

• The Winter Olympics: What to Watch; How to Watch
• ‘I Never Imagined This!’ How KPop Demon Hunters Could Make History at the Grammys and the Oscars
• Purr-fect Casting: Is Orangey the Most Important Movie Cat Ever?
• Harry Potter’s Draco Malfoy Becomes Mascot for Year of the Horse in China
• ‘In the End, You Feel Blank’: India’s Female Workers Watching Hours of Abusive Content to Train AI
• Monsoons, Mould … and a Million Visitors: Welcome to Kerala’s ‘People’s Biennale’
• How Trump Took up the ‘Christian Genocide’ Cause in Nigeria
• Rethinking Shakespeare in Shanghai
• A Journalist Who Looks for Clues in Plain Sight
• Does This Angel Look Familiar? A Modern Face Appears in a Rome Fresco.
• Can Food Be Art? Denmark is Finding Out.
• Outside the Art World’s Echo Chamber, at Art Basel Qatar
• Canada’s Prime Minister Meets ‘Heated Rivalry’ Star on Red Carpet
• In South Korea, Questions About Cram Schools, Success, and Happiness
• Born of a Factory Mistake, This Sad Toy Horse Captures China’s Mood