Can Sadiq Khan make Labour great again?; Obama forces companies out of their shells; North Korea's rare party Congress.
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Fighting Islamophobia and anti-Semitism alike!
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Disclosure on the half-shell
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It's unlikely, though, that the regulation will be enough to satisfy the leaker, who released a manifesto Friday (under the name "John Doe") expressing frustration that the documents had led to more talk than action.
[ICIJ / John Doe]
Ain't no party (congress) like a Workers' Party (congress)
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In a stunning move, foreign journalists were invited into the country to cover the congress. In an even more (or perhaps not at all) stunning move, they were subsequently barred from actually attending it.
[NYT / Christine Hauser]
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Here's what we know: Kim Jong Un is following in the footsteps of his grandfather Kim Il Sung in elevating the role of the party in the workings of the country (while his father, Kim Jong Il, preferred the military).
[Washington Post / Anna Fifeld]
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That's not to say North Korea doesn't have expanding military capacity, though — Kim Jong Un opened the congress by praising its nuclear progress, which US intelligence officials admit they haven't been able to stop.
[NYT / David E. Sanger and Choe Sang-hun]
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In that context, the fact that Kim Jong Un banned weddings and funerals for the weekend, so that all attention could be paid to the congress, is ridiculous — but it's also totalitarian and immiserating.
[The Daily Beast / Gordon G. Chang]
MISCELLANEOUS
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Sadly, the boat that should be named Boaty McBoatface will be named after Sir David Attenborough. But one of its remotely operated undersea vehicles will be Boaty McBoatface, even though it is not a boat and should be called "remotely operated undersea vehicle mcremotely operated undersea vehicleface" (ROUVy McROUVface for short).
[BBC]
VERBATIM
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"Converts like Hugo Marcus, a gay Jewish philosopher, show Islam wasn’t just present in Europe in the years after World War I — for some, it played a vital role in discussions about what the continent’s future should look like."
[Foreign Policy / Marya Hannun and Sophie Spaan]
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"In one study in 2011 of more than 5,000 women across India, only 3 percent said they were "forced" into the sex trade, and only 10 percent said they freely chose it. The rest fell into the gray area in between."
[NYT Mag / Emily Bazelon]
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"In the moving piece, published by Time, Spears praises Preston, 10, and Jayden, 9, calling them her 'masterpiece' — which, while certainly heartfelt, sort of diminishes Spears’ hit 2001 song, 'I’m A Slave 4 U,' long heralded by fans and critics alike as her actual masterpiece."
[StarWipe]
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