The Week in Stories Around the Globe

President Trump Inside and Outside the Lines at the U.N.

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“Rocket Man is on a suicide mission,” he declared Tuesday, very deliberately from the rostrum of the General Assembly, about the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un. North Korea one-upped Mr. Trump on his reference to a 1970s Elton John lyric by labeling the president the “Madman Across the Water.”

#Trump#UN#International#NorthKorea

 

Hurricane Maria Updates: In Puerto Rico, the Storm ‘Destroyed Us’

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The strikingly powerful storm had rendered an estimated 3.4 million people without power, and with the territory’s energy grid all but destroyed, Gov. Ricardo Rosselló predicted a long period of recovery. Anxious relatives in the mainland United States and elsewhere took to social media in an effort to find news of their loved ones.

#HurricaneMaria#PuertoRicoStrong#Flood#NaturalDisaster

Namibia’s Himba people caught between traditions and modernity

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“The best life for us is in the village – it’s how we’ve lived for many years, it’s what we know. In the city, we cannot survive.”

People like Mr. Kataparo are caught between the allure of modern life and a desire to save his traditional culture,

“It scares me a lot. I would prefer to die before the traditions of my people finish.”

#Namibia#Tradition#History#Africa#Culture

 

Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think

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Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, toddlers, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with.

#Consciousness #Science #metacognition#Reality


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