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Editor's note
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At just 14 years old, multilingual Adul Sam-on acted as translator during the elaborate mission to rescue him and 12 others from the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand last week. Now, the Thai government is considering granting citizenship to Adul, and the three other stateless members of the group. Derina Johnson interviewed some of the 400,000 stateless people living in Thailand and found that bravery, positivity and resilience are common characteristics.
Spain is confronting a dark period of its history. Last month, a retired doctor went on trial, accused of taking a new born baby away from its mother without her consent and giving it to a childless couple. The same thing may have happened to as many as 300,000 children during and after Franco’s regime. Federico López-Terra says it is high time this scandal was put in the spotlight.
You may think globalised food markets are a recent thing, but people have been transporting crops all over the world for thousands of years. Take the banana. Chris Hunt and Rathnasiri Premathilake have discovered evidence that domesticated bananas were propagated in Sri Lanka 6,000 years ago, meaning people must have carried plants there across the ocean.
Football fans sent hundreds of millions of tweets throughout Russia 2018. Alex Fenton and Simon Chadwick have analysed Twitter during the World Cup and found evidence of marketing bots, organised trolling – and increasingly influential female fans.
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Emily Lindsay Brown
Editor for Cities and Young People
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Top stories
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Adul Sam-on (right) during the rescue operation.
Handout: Thai Navy Seals.
Derina Johnson, Trinity College Dublin
There are at least 400,000 stateless people living in Thailand – many of them young, like Adul. Here's what their lives are like.
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“Human rights for stolen babies.”
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Federico López-Terra, Swansea University
As many as 300,000 babies were taken from their families for political gain.
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Chris Hunt, Liverpool John Moores University; Rathnasiri Premathilake, University of Kelaniya
Appearance of bananas in Sri Lanka 6,000 years ago points to prehistoric food globalisation.
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John Walton/PA
Alex Fenton, University of Salford; Simon Chadwick, University of Salford
Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
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Politics + Society
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Joseph Downing, Aix-Marseille Université
When France won the world cup in 1998, the team was celebrated for its multiculturalism. What has happened since?
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Chris Allen, University of Leicester
Britain is experiencing a moment of great cultural tension. The US president isn't helping.
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Martin Farr, Newcastle University
Efforts to keep Trump's itinerary as tight and cloistered as possible failed to avoid a classic diplomatic calamity.
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Nicholas Allen, Royal Holloway; Erica Consterdine, University of Sussex; Feargal Cochrane, University of Kent; John-Paul Salter, King's College London; Maria Garcia, University of Bath
It sparked a series of government resignations, but what's actually in Theresa May's Brexit plan?
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Robert J Downes, King's College London; Armida L. M. van Rij, King's College London
From awkwardness and confusion to rancour, Trump certainly left his mark on the 2018 NATO summit.
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Christopher Platts, Sheffield Hallam University
For players in this World Cup's England squad, even getting picked to play is at the end of a very long road.
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Ewelina Ochab, University of Kent
IS is a distinctive kind of threat – and the atrocities it's committed demand a tailor-made form of justice.
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Science + Technology
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Thomas Webb, University of Liverpool
Yesterday's weather helps make sense of today's, but how will this change as the climate changes?
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Jonathan Aitken, University of Sheffield
Drones are pesky, hazardous and can spy on you while you're getting dressed. But they can also do a huge amount of good
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Jordan Raine, University of Sussex
Vocal deception may have played a key role in our progression from primitive nonverbal noises to complex, controlled speech.
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Simon Peeters, University of Sussex
A giant detector at the South Pole has observed a neutrino from a black hole in a distant galaxy for the first time.
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Arts + Culture
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Jonathan Ervine, Bangor University
The French set up FIFA and the World Cup.
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Leshu Torchin, University of St Andrews
The British comedian's sly docu-comedy format is perfect for helping people understand and navigate the proliferation of fake news.
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Dominic Janes, Keele University
The flamboyant 18th-century 'Macaronis' were so called because they were said to prefer continental pasta to good old British roast beef.
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Health + Medicine
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Olivia Remes, University of Cambridge
It's less about making more friends and more about changing the way we see the world.
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Ayse Cinar, University of Dundee
Health coaching looks like more than a fad – it comes with impressive research findings and is winning over the NHS.
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Business + Economy
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Mike Ellington, University of Liverpool; Costas Milas, University of Liverpool
Some estimates say the World Cup will bring a £1.6 billion boost to the UK economy. Do they stack up?
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