Millions of people and goods are constantly circulating around the world, on roads, railways and by boat. A visual journey
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When I first travelled to Lake Urmia in the northwest of Iran, I was shocked: Where only a few years ago children from the surrounding area learned to swim, today lies a salt desert.
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About a special animal on Borneo.
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When someone in the Baganda tribe in Uganda dies, we perform rituals so that the spirit of the deceased can finally pass into the afterlife.
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In Vietnam, people don't talk openly about their feelings.
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On the eve of International Women's Day 2019, thirty of the forty deputies in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon voted to criminalize abortions. Since then, there has been much discussion about whether women have the power to decide over their own bodies.
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Aidin and Theo Nikoloudakis and their three children live in a house in the bay of Likos in southern Crete. From their terrace they look out over the sea and the 500 goats and sheep owned by their extended family.
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The transport specialist Jonas Eliasson explains how we will move in the future.
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A look behind the scenes of the Chinese-planned “New Silk Road”, seen as the largest transport project of modern times.
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A t-shirt from Bangladesh, an avocado from Mexico: Without the invention of container ships, today’s consumer habits would be unthinkable.
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To travel you don’t have to walk, drive or fly says the author Ben Okri. Sometimes it is enough to just open a book. A conversation about fictional journeys.
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Nowhere in the world do people spend as long in traffic jams as in the Colombian capital Bogotá. A trip into the gridlock.
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Taiye Salasi reflects on a life on the move.
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En route with Romanian harvest hands and seasonal labourers.
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For the diaspora from the former Yugoslavia, the bus is far more than just a means of transport.
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It is 18:22 in Macadam and people are waiting to travel back to Amour slum. A story.
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Captain Seín Pérez has been transporting goods and passengers up and down the Amazon River for years.
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A conversation with traffic psychologist Parichehr Scharifi about how people behave in traffic.
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Poverty, illness, no schools - for a longtime the North of Ghana was left behind the rest of the country. But the building of the Fufulso-Sawla Road has changed things, fast.
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On ending Stockholm’s history as a car city, and thinking ahead to a cleaner future.
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From a disconnected province, Punta Arenas is being reinvented as a new infrastructure hub.
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Why Silicon Valley is so invested in digitalising transport.
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In an interview, the author and journalist Ece Temelkuran points out the parallels between the right-wing populists in Turkey, the United States and Europe.
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In South Korea it is common to see men with make-up.
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With its new guidelines for “a deeper partnership with Africa”, Germany wants to update its policy on Africa and improve its cooperation with the continent.
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A decade after Sri Lanka’s war came to an end, genuine power sharing between the two main communities, the Sinhalese and Tamils, remains illusive.
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The term “expropriation” is being misused.
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I am a woman. Which means my ID number starts with a two.
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In his new book, tropical biologist Mark W. Moffett researches the ties that bind human and animal societies.
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Leïla Slimani’s latest novel chronicles the life of a woman who is addicted to sex.
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German historian Uffa Jensen traces the early stages of psychoanalysis as it travelled between continents.
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Damir Ovcina‘s novel forces the reader to bear witness to the Bosnian genocide.
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