Photo Essays
Winter in North Korea’s Potemkin City
Visiting the North Korean capital city Pyongyang in the 21st century is to find a city out of time: a hulking stone-and-steel anachronism lurching into modernity on its own terms.
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Midnight Latitudes: Pyramiden
High above the Arctic Circle in Svalbard, a desolate archipelago situated midway between Norway and the North Pole, a Cold War outpost drifts further and further out of time.
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Namibia’s Sand Castle Kingdom
Enterprising Germans wanting their own slice of the good life flocked to Kolmanskop, and soon this far-flung desert outpost became one of the richest towns in the world.
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The Class of 2015 Has a Message
Large-scale demonstrations broke out at universities across South Africa this week, with students protesting en masse against planned fee increases.
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Midnight Latitudes
In the town of Longyearbyen, on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, one rarely goes more than a day without hearing the boast "world's northernmost".
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Firework Hymns
Of the not-insignificant number of events around the world billing themselves as "the greatest show on Earth", the Rio Carnival has a thicker-fingered hold on the title than most.
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The Road to Kabul
Kabul, rebuilt since 1992 to a reasonable facsimile of its pre-war shape, is a functioning city first and a fortified war hub second.
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Combat Close-Out
For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada's largest operation in Afghanistan remains the comparatively unheralded Mission Transition Task Force (MTTF).
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