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France's prime minister faces a no-confidence vote that may leave the country without a functioning government. / BBC News
France has recorded 52 Israeli violations of the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. / The National News
Palestinians explain what it's like to go through an autumn olive harvest in Area C. / Al Jazeera
Canada launches a new ad campaign telling asylum-seekers that making an immigration claim "is not easy." / The Toronto Star
Unrelated: Men in New York City explain how much they'd pay for a flannel shirt. / The Wall Street Journal [+]
Arizona's largest public utility achieved $69 million in savings last year by buying California's excess solar power. / The Los Angeles Times [+]
A longtime California travel writer lists the state's best mountain towns. / Travel + Leisure
Gripes faced by private chefs in Silicon Valley. "The labels in the beverage fridge were not facing forward." / The San Francisco Standard
See also: How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert. / The Atlantic [+]
Americans have long been warned about loneliness. "The alarms, of course, may not always be false." / Asterisk Mag
Details from an international "space-out competition." / Inside Hook
Details about Genji-kō, a Japanese game of smelling different types of incense. / Owl
Scientists discover a new family of living things "that reside in the midnight world of the ocean." / The New York Times [+]
"In Mongolia, people rave on horseback." Tom Whitwell reports on the things he learned last year. / Medium
The very weird story of how Pras Michél, co-founder of The Fugees, became a spy. / Variety
Patricia Lockwood on The X-Files: "The real reason everyone loved the show was not because it was about alien autopsies but because it was about motel rooms." / The London Review of Books
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