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Oil depot fires in Iran are affecting people's health

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US-Israel-Iran War

After Israeli strikes on Tehran’s fuel depots, residents face a toxic aftermath

Turkey's third-largest city is running out of water

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Environment

Turkey’s Izmir facing severe shortages as water levels continue to drop

AI is rapidly changing math and mathematicians are defining their role in the equation

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Science & Technology

AI is rapidly changing math, and mathematicians are defining their role in the equation

Minnesota's Hmong community feeling betrayed

Protesters in winter clothing hold signs reading "Hmong Against ICE" during a demonstration on a snowy street.

Immigration

Minnesota’s Hmong community feeling a sense of betrayal amid ICE crackdowns

How to eat surströmming — the world's smelliest food — the Swedish way

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Food

Surströmming challenge: How Swedes actually eat the world’s worst-smelling food

A brief history of US, Israeli and Iranian relations

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The computer will see you now

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Health & Medicine

Measuring patients’ vital signs virtually in the heart of the Amazon

Formal concerts in informal places

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Music

This family in Prague holds classical music concerts in their own living room

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Trump rules out talks absent Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ as Israel strikes Lebanon

Descriptions of struggle at an art exhibition in Prague

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South Carolina: it’s not easy being ‘so gay’

‘Wall Street got drunk’ and other pithy phrases for global crises

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Books

Religion is alive and kicking in officially atheist China

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London ad campaign upsets South Carolina

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Belief

Daoism gains a foothold, again, in China

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