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Burna Boy, Wizkid, Tyla and More Took African Pop Global. so Why Don’t They Tour Africa Itself? How Cuban Doctors Vital to Latin America Are Being Squeezed Out by the US North Korean Women’s Football Club Headed to Seoul in Rare Trip Across the Border The ‘Big Durian’: One Day in Jakarta, the World’s Largest City ‘They Have Built a Machine That Pulls Out Their Mother Tongue’: Why Tibet’s Children ‘Think They Are Chinese’ Vienna’s Public Transport is the Envy of the World – so Why Can’t It Ditch Cars? Inside Smoky Shelters, a Fast-paced, Illegal Card Game Has Taken Off in Solomon Islands ‘We Feel Angry – and we Have Reason to Be’: Brazil’s Resurgent Punk Scene is a Howl of Outrage at Injustice Up to 2cm a Month: Nasa Keeps Track as Mexico City Sinks Into the Groun Can Promises on Gender Equality Made in Australia Help a 16-year-old Indian Cigarette Maker With No Toilet? ‘Mothers Won’t Die, Babies Can Survive’: New Maternal Hospital Opens in World’s Largest Refugee Camp Japan Sees Largest Protest in Support of Pacifist Constitution as PM Takaichi Pushes Revisions Yoko Ono Trademark Challenge Leaves Sour Taste for John Lemon Beer Maker France Passes Law Easing Process of Returning Looted Art What a Bike Ride Showed Me About Apartheid’s Legacy World Cup or Bust: Going Into Debt, Sleeping 10 to a Room and Layovers for Days Reclaiming the Name of the Black Hero Who Inspired ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ Illegal Miners Loot Amazon Rainforest for Critical Minerals Air-Conditioning is in Short Supply as Asia Swelters Meditating or Rebooting? a Robot Buddhist Monk Comes to South Korea. Chasing K-Pop Stardom Nearly Destroyed Her. Then Came ‘Demon Hunters.’ How Indigenous Acknowledgments Became a Target in Australia My Art Will Go On: Titanic Artifacts May Soon Be Auctioned France Passes Law Easing Process of Returning Looted Art These Toilets in Venice Have the Art World Aflush They Never Knew a World Before Smartphones. Could They Survive Without Them?

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May 1, 2024

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• From National Pride to Fascism: How Countries Have Used the World Cup to Build Identity
• Masterful Images of Indian Life – in Pictures
• The Elite ‘Doctors’ Who Care for Mount Everest
• ‘The Birds Are a Global Citizen’: Indigenous Groups in Australia and Alaska Team Up to Track a Feathered Adventurer’s Epic Journey
• ‘Sensitive, Sexy and Surreal’: Japan’s Kyotographie Festival
• Return of Aparicio Painting to Prado Exemplifies Trajectory of Human Taste
• ‘It Will Never Cover What’s Authentic’: African Music Industry Weighs up AI Risks and Rewards
• ‘If Your Wife Asks You to Change Diapers, Change Your Wife’: the Arabic Hit Show That Parodies the Patriarchy
• ‘Street Culture is About Revolution’: Brazilian ‘Hip-hop’ Painter Paulo Nimer Pjota
• Blazing a Trail for a Traditional Korean Zither in Jazz
• ‘A Constant Quiet Terror’: Getting Lost in Irish Folklore – in Pictures