{"id":7177,"date":"2026-02-28T06:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:18:21","slug":"six-great-reads-gisele-pelicot-olympic-politics-and-european-dating-tips-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7177","title":{"rendered":"Six great reads: Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, Olympic politics and European dating tips | US news"},"content":{"rendered":"


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    1. <\/span>Global leaders are dreaming of a US-free world order. Do they stand a chance?<\/h2>\n
    <\/svg><\/span> Illustration: Ryan Chapman\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    In this timely featured essay, Eduardo Porter examined the disintegration of the world order, as the US crushes the system of cooperation and shared values it helped to create after the second world war, concluding: \u201cHistory seems pretty clear that a world of roaming great powers is not particularly safe nor prosperous.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    2. <\/span>If you think politics shaped these Winter Olympics, just wait until LA 2028<\/h2>\n
    <\/svg><\/span>Gold medalist Alysa Liu poses with her medal at the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.<\/span> Photograph: Wu Hao\/EPA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    From the US men\u2019s hockey team\u2019s chummy phone call with Trump to the backlash against Hunter Hess and others who criticised the US president, Milan-Cortina was an unusually political Winter Olympics. As Bryan Armen Graham reminded us, just wait for Los Angeles in the summer of 2028.<\/p>\n

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    3. <\/span>\u2018We\u2019ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years\u2019: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer<\/h2>\n
    <\/svg><\/span>Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor.<\/span> Photograph: Max Mumby\/Indigo\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Zoe Williams wrote a fascinating interview with Andrew Lownie, the author of Entitled, a book about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor that documents, as Zoe put it, \u201ca priapic, exploitative and money-grubbing life in which nothing was ever refused him\u201d. Elsewhere, the art writer Eddy Frankel considered the already famous photograph of Mountbatten-Windsor after his arrest on 19 February, comparing it to Goya and Munch\u2019s The Scream<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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    4. <\/span>Gis\u00e8le Pelicot on rape, courage and her ex-husband: \u2018He was loved by everyone. That\u2019s what is so terrifying\u2019<\/h2>\n
    <\/svg><\/span>Gis\u00e8le Pelicot.<\/span> Composite: Guardian Design; Pascal Ito<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    Angelique Chrisafis\u2019s interview with Gis\u00e8le Pelicot was a moving portrait of a woman whose story shocked the world. They discussed shame, resilience, how her husband hid his depravity behind the guise of the perfect husband and why, despite everything, she believes \u201chope is allowed\u201d.<\/p>\n

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    5. <\/span>\u2018We watched 9\/11 from the rooftop, blasting the music out\u2019: how The Disintegration Loops became a requiem for the attacks<\/h2>\n
    <\/svg><\/span>New York on 11 September 2001.<\/span> Photograph: Brad Rickerby\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    For some New Yorkers, the composer William Basinski\u2019s The Disintegration Loops seemed to sum up the mood after the seismic shock of 9\/11. He and his friend Anohni discussed the making of this avant garde masterpiece to Tim Jonze \u2013 and hundreds of thousands of Guardian readers.<\/p>\n

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    6. <\/span>Sex first, dinner later: what can singles in Oslo, Berlin, Paris and Rome teach me about dating?<\/h2>\n
    <\/svg><\/span> Illustration: Javi Aznarez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    After a breakup, Kitty Drake threw herself into internet dating before becoming increasingly disillusioned. Could daters in Europe give her insight into a different way of meeting people?<\/p>\n

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