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  • Why Croatia’s capital wants to hold the best Christmas market

    Why Croatia’s capital wants to hold the best Christmas market

    Guy Delauney Balkans correspondent

    AFP via Getty Images Revellers at Zagreb Advent, the city's Christmas marketAFP via Getty Images

    Zagreb’s Christmas market was voted the best in Europe three years in a row

    Christmas markets are not just tradition across Europe, they are big businesses that give cities a huge economic…

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  • What it takes to film 60 Minutes on Mount Everest

    What it takes to film 60 Minutes on Mount Everest

    In December 2024, 60 Minutes producer Jacqueline Williams had read an article about Nima Rinji Sherpa, a 19-year-old mountaineer from a family of Sherpas, Nepalese mountain guides who have lived and worked on Mount Everest for…

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  • While most of the world is preparing for Christmas, the Philippines has been at it for months

    While most of the world is preparing for Christmas, the Philippines has been at it for months

    Via Arboleda stepped back to admire the six-foot tree glittering in her living room.

    Though the narra trees along Manila’s sidewalks had yet to shed their leaves, she was among many…

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  • Peter Arnett dead: Pulitzer-winning war correspondent was 91

    Peter Arnett dead: Pulitzer-winning war correspondent was 91

    Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war — from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq — has died. He was 91.

    Arnett, who won the…

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