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A new exhibit at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum focuses on African fashion. The exhibit’s curator says it’s a way for the museum to acknowledge its colonial legacy. Read More at NPR

Rising energy prices in Europe have forced some Italians to turn to abandoned cooking methods. One Tuscan village is using wool to insulate cooking boxes that slow-cook food with less energy. Read More at NPR

Protestors explain why they came out and demonstrated in China. Some say they did it to protest against COVID controls, others for more abstract political ideals. Read More at NPR

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with reporters Sandy Tolan and Euclides Cordero Nuel about the ban on Dominican sugar from Central Romana, based on information that the company uses forced labor. Read More at NPR

Brazil’s President-elect is pledging a “zero tolerance” policy on deforestation in the Amazon. But climate scientists warn the damage already done may be irreversible. Read More at NPR

The change could calm widespread protests, and would ease the impact to a world economy already struggling with high inflation, an energy crisis and disrupted food supply. (Image credit: Michael Sohn/AP) Read More at NPR

Invasion author Luke Harding began reporting from Ukraine in December 2021 and was in Kyiv the night before the Russian invasion began. “There is no mood inside Ukrainian society to yield,” he says. (Image credit: Carl Court/Getty Images) Read More at NPR

This year’s World Cup has already seen some of the strongest matchups and upsets in the tournament’s history. (Image credit: Claudio Villa/Getty Images) Read More at NPR

Iran’s players have at times appeared to show solidarity with the protests, even as they say their focus is football. Thousands of protesters have been arrested and hundreds killed, rights groups say. (Image credit: Francisco Seco/AP) Read More at NPR