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Postcard From Dresden and India's Pilgrims: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing

The highlights from seven days of reading about the world
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Jacob Kushner | “‘Someone told me that, in Germany, it's very safe for people who are underage,’ Romeo says. But Germany turned out to be no utopia for an African refugee. ‘Here, if you take a train and you are black, all the seats will be full, but nobody will come and sit beside you. Same on the bus,’ he tells me. On the streets of Freital, a town

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