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The Art of Doing Nothing: Have the Dutch Found the Answer to Burnout Culture? Northern Ireland Has a Sinn Fein Leader. It’s a Landmark Moment. India’s Plan for Untouched Nicobar Isles Will Be ‘Death Sentence’ for Isolated Tribe Exploring Ghana, With Contemporary Art as a Guide A Menopause Revolution Is Stirring in Africa – I’M Helping It to Succeed Anti-Fgm Caravan Embarks on 7,400-Mile Campaign to End Cutting in Africa ‘Love Is Our First Medicine’: Treating Mental Health in Cameroon’s Unique Refuge The French Sex Recession: Has la Flamme Really Gone Out? Japan Court Lets Transgender Man Change Official Status Without Sterilisation in Legal First Amid Jeers and Boos, Strained Māori Relations With Government Dominate National Holiday Women Behind the Lens: ‘Those Few Seconds Seemed to Encapsulate the Depth of Her Pilgrimage’ Flight Risk: Suspected Spy Pigeon Released After Eight Months in Detention in India Floating Sauna Rescues Occupants of Tesla That Plunged Into Oslo Fjord 36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco Read Your Way Through Lagos Who Created Butter Chicken? India’s Great Curry Clash. Welcome to ‘Dalifornia,’ an Oasis for China’s Drifters and Dreamers Cleaning Latrines by Hand: ‘How Could Any Human Do That?’ Australia Introduces Workers’ ‘Right to Disconnect’ In Australia and New Zealand, Barefoot Is a Way of Life Digital Art Group Reconstructs a 43-Foot Ancient Roman Statue

February 1, 2024

• The First Lady and the Dior Bag: the Scandal Shaking up South Korean Politics
• Smoked Monkey and Whole Sharks: the Suitcase Smugglers Feeding Europe’s Hunger for Bushmeat
• ‘People Weep and Shower Me With Rupees’: the Overwhelming Artistry of Pashtun Singer Zarsanga
• ‘A Way to Open up to the World’: Gallery Galvanises Madagascar’s Art Scene
• The Battle Against Illegal Goldmining in the Amazon – in Pictures
• Refacing of Egyptian Pyramid With Granite Sparks Outrage Online – Video
• Cornets in Kampala: Community Brass Bands in Uganda – in Pictures
• Malaysia Swears in Motorbike-Riding Billionaire As New King Under Rotating Monarchy System
• I Took My Children to the Caribbean to Live Free From British Racism, and Have Never Looked Back
• ‘Water Comes From All Four Sides’: How Rotterdam’s Tidal Park Protects the City
• ‘We Said, There Must Be Ladies’: the Pioneering Maasai Women Ending All-Male Leadership of the Land
• Somalia to Launch Its First Current Affairs Tv Show Led by Women
• A Crappy Day Out: Melbourne’s Poo Museum Is Now Open for Business
• Carmakers May Be Using Aluminium Made by Uyghur Forced Labour, NGO Investigation Finds
• ‘Living on the Fringes’: Why New Zealand Novelists Are Making Waves
• How Rice Hidden by a Woman Fleeing Slavery in the 1700S Could Help Her Descendants
• Bullfighting Returns to Its Largest Arena. A Fight Over Its Future Goes On
• 36 Hours on Grenada
• If It Isn’t Perfect, Is It Still K-Pop?
• Gin and Jellyfish? You Might Be at a Bar in Singapore
• A Stunningly Well-Preserved 600-Year-Old Gauntlet Is Found in Switzerland
• French Lawmakers Vote to Enshrine Abortion Rights in Constitution