Social Issues / Current Affairs
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Sentimental scams leave in their wake men and women both ruined and sentimentally broken. Bernard dreamed of a tender retirement alongside a young Frenchwoman. Julie thought she had found love with her handsome and considerate German. Mostly based...
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Will we ever be immortal? Is living better, healthier, longer lives what science and technology have in store for us in the short run? Paraplegics can now start walking again thanks to exoskeletons aka robotic combinations. Google has poached the...
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Discover the story of the world's longest freight train that connects Yiwu, East of China, to Madrid, Spain. In the footsteps of the ancient Silk Road, "The Iron Dragon" travels more than 13,000 kilometers to get goods to destination. Traders,...
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Currently 5 billion people own a mobile phone. More than half of them are smartphones. Millions of texts, images and videos circulate daily through social networks worldwide, from dictatorships to the most consolidated democracies. A perfect weapon...
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«Vaccine skepticism», a movement prompting a growing number of parents not to have their children vaccinated. Leaving behind mistrust and the sterile debate on the pros and cons of vaccination, the report casts an objective eye on individual...
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Are smartphones destroying an entire generation? Never before has a technology invaded our lives so fast and so completely. For parents, the smartphone has become the enemy. Teens are especially hard hit. Too much exposure to smartphone screens...
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Thanks to the appearance of low-cost fitness centres, everyone's getting into shape, a widespread trend that can find several generations of the same family working out together - and that has seen a steep rise in trafficking in anabolic steroids...
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Three women in the Middle East lead the fight for gender equality and freedom. Politician Selay travels through Afghanistan with armed security to protect her while educating other women about their rights. Yanar runs shelters for abused women in...
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Death experienced by the living: Gabi, the cemetery guard, José, the sales agent who deals with families; David and Sergio, the undertakers, Jaume and Mohammed, gardeners, José Luis, who works at the crematorium and Manuela, who works in cleaning...
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We follow for one day four young girls each living in a different country but awoken by the same dawn in the same time-zone: South Sudan, Romania, Palestine, Finland. They are so different from one another and yet so similar in their behaviors,...
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Who are the dictators spending surreal amounts of money in Switzerland's most opulent hotels while their people live in abject poverty? For decades, their regular presence has been a mainstay of Geneva's luxury hotels and shops. With the aid of data...
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Thousands of babies were kidnapped or sold in Sri Lanka in the 1980s. The scandal affected Switzerland and involved private intermediaries, who were little concerned about the origin of the adopted children. Swiss couples adopted nearly 750 children...
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It's the deadliest migrant route in the world. From Niamey to Agadez, through the Sahel and Libya's Sahara desert and on across the Mediterranean, meet the smugglers, and also the women and men who risk their lives to reach European shores. By...
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Today's information-processing methods are revolutionizing police investigations. Predictive policing software is being used by police forces worldwide. From Zurich to Los Angeles, Cleveland to Milan, the results are spectacular. But they also raise...
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After 30 years of steady growth, humanitarian aid has become a multibillion-dollar industry, with some of the tens of thousands of NGOs active in the field operating like multinationals. But increasingly frequent crises have also led to dysfunctions...
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In the Arctic wilderness of Spitsbergen in Norway, the mining town of Barenstburg is a Russian enclave built by the former Soviet Union to showcase socialism and pay homage to the miner. Today the mine’s coal seam will soon be exhausted, but Russia...
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