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Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal
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Germany’s postwar democratic stability is often attributed to a constitution designed to prevent another Weimar collapse. But Weimar already had powerful tools to defend democracy, which political institutions often failed to use
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The investigation into a dilapidated duplex in North Philadelphia has uncovered evidence involving 58 women who authorities say appear to have been sexually exploited, while investigators examine more than a million photographs
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