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Precious Achiuwa: Nigeria’s Accidental Diplomat Redefines International Relations One Dunk at a Time
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

**The Accidental Diplomat: How Precious Achiuwa Became Nigeria’s Most Effective Export Since Scam Emails** In a world where international relations have devolved into a glorified kindergarten playground—complete with name-calling, toy-throwing, and the occasional nuclear tantrum—it’s refreshing to witness diplomacy through the unlikely medium of a 6’8″ power forward who can dunk on your economy faster…

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International | Sports

Dwight Howard’s Taiwan Gamble: Rebounds, Risk, and the New Geopolitics of Has-Been Hoops
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Dwight Howard Lands in Taiwan and the World Shrugs—Then Checks the Box Score By our sardonic foreign correspondent, still jet-lagged from watching civilization decline in real time Taipei—While the rest of the planet argued over grain shipments, hypersonic missiles, and whether Twitter will survive the decade, Dwight Howard—yes, that Dwight Howard—quietly signed to play for…

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From Havana to High-Definition: Janette Manrara and the Global Glitterball Economy
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

A Cuban-American dancer glides across a British ballroom, watched by 11 million Britons clutching their cups of tea and existential dread, while WhatsApp groups from Manila to Mexico City ping with the same question: “Who the hell is Janette Manrara, and why is my algorithm suddenly obsessed?” Welcome to the 21st-century fame centrifuge, where a…

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Current Events | International

Detainee Diplomacy: How the World Turned Imprisonment into a Global Brand
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

The World’s Most Overcrowded Club: Notes on the Global Fashion of Calling Someone a “Detainee” By Our Correspondent, currently not detained (but the night is young) From the fluorescent holding pen at Charles de Gaulle to the shipping-container pop-up outside Doha, the word “detainee” has quietly become the diplomatic equivalent of a unisex hoodie: one…

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International | Sports

Ind vs Ban: The Cricket Match That Became a Global Power Play
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

The Super-Subcontinent Derby: How India vs Bangladesh Quietly Became the World’s Most Watched Proxy War by Our Man with a Visa Stamp and a Liver to Match When 1.7 billion people glance at their phones this evening, roughly the same number who claim they’ve “read the terms and conditions,” they will discover that a patch…

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Eric Church’s Global Hoedown: How a Country Tour Became the World’s Most Expensive Distraction
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Eric Church’s 2024 tour—blandly christened the “Outsiders Revival” despite being bankrolled by Live Nation, Pepsi, and a constellation of hedge funds—kicked off in Nashville last month and will soon drag its coliseum-sized honky-tonk across three continents. To the casual observer it’s just another American country singer hauling 300 tons of steel truss, LED panels, and…

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Carrick High: How a Pittsburgh Lockdown Became the World’s Classroom in Fear
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

From the banks of the Monongahela River to the back-alleys of global anxiety, Carrick High School in Pittsburgh has become an unlikely avatar for the planet’s collective panic attack. What began as a routine lockdown in November 2023—when a student allegedly posted a “list” of classmates on social media—has now metastasized into a transcontinental case…

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From Grey’s Anatomy to Global Gospel: How Jesse Williams Became the World’s Favorite American Rebellion
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

**Jesse Williams: The Global Aftershocks of an American Actor’s Activism** *By Our Correspondent, Still Recovering from the Irony* It’s a peculiar hallmark of our times that a speech delivered at a second-tier American awards show can ricochet from Lagos living rooms to Berlin bars, sparking think-pieces in languages that don’t even share an alphabet. Yet…

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Analysis | International

Kashmir to Crypto: How an India-Bangladesh Cricket Match Became the World’s Darkest Metaphor
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Dhaka, Friday, 3:12 a.m.—the sort of hour when sane people are asleep and only journalists, insomniacs, and arms dealers are still conscious. I’m watching a grainy feed of the T20 match between India and Bangladesh, but the cricket is merely the polite veneer over what is, in truth, a geopolitical cage fight wearing pajamas. While…

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The Global Obsession with Xander Schauffele’s Wife: Humanity’s Priority Problem
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

**The Global Significance of Mrs. Xander Schauffele: How One Woman’s Handbag Choices Apparently Matter to Civilization** In a world where nuclear powers exchange threats over social media and climate change is busy remodeling our coastlines, humanity has collectively decided that the most pressing question requiring international investigation is: who exactly is married to professional golfer…

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‘Wicked for Good’: How Global Villains Rebrand Sin as Virtue—and Why We Keep Buying It
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Wicked for Good: A Global Morality Play Where the Villains Pretend to Reform By the time you finish this sentence, a multinational mining conglomerate will have announced a glossy “net-positive biodiversity” plan while quietly dynamiting another chunk of the Amazon. Somewhere in Davos, a cigarette-peddling CEO will tweet about “purpose beyond profit” between drags of…

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International | Sports

Kirsty Coventry Takes the Olympic Reins: A Zimbabwean Lifeguard for a Planet on Fire
ByDaveslocker 24 September 2025

Kirsty Coventry, the former Olympic swimmer from land-locked Zimbabwe, has just been elected the first African and first female president of the International Olympic Committee—an outcome that, judging by the collective gasp in Lausanne, landed somewhere between miracle and clerical error. To the outside world this looks like a heart-warming arc: teenage girl dodges crocodiles…

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