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In Kabul, wedding halls bring respite from gloom
As night falls over Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, the city is enveloped in darkness, with only a few dim lights and neon signs breaking through the thick winter smog. However, ...
AP PHOTOS: Syrians returning to the town of Tel Rifaat find homes in ruins and underground tunnels
The long anticipated return home for residents of the Syrian town of Tel Rifaat, displaced since 2014, has collided with a ...
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Afghan wedding halls light up sombre Kabul nights
As night settles over Afghanistan's capital, only a few small lights and neon signs pierce the darkness and thick blanket of ...
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‘I feel recharged’: Dubai’s old town residents thrilled by car ban plan
An ambitious plan to turn several historic Dubai neighbourhoods into car-free zones could significantly improve quality of ...
The Economist2d
What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...
Pakistan to Force Tens of Thousands of Afghan Refugees Out of the Capital
The order, giving Afghans until March 31 to go elsewhere in Pakistan, came on the heels of President Trump’s suspension of ...
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
Global Forecast as of 12:00 GMT Friday, February 7, 2025 ...
Yangon, an anxious, frenetic city where 'everything looks normal, but is abnormal'
Le Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports.
London Review of Books6d
Resident Bean Expert
A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...