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| - We are offering the following Editor's Choice stories which have been selected by AFP's chief editors for re-publication as some of the best of the week: + Heating woes fuel Balkan smog crisis + Ethiopians look for love during Orthodox epiphany celebration + Cloud cooking land: Indian housewives become gig economy chefs + How fashion uses greenwashing to hide its dirty secrets + A year after Brazil dam breach, the mud has dried but not the tears + For Pennsylvania workers, a changing economy and politics Balkans-environment-health-pollution,EDITOR'S CHOICE SARAJEVO As winter grips the Balkans, the poor are caught in a cruel bind, being forced to light fires at home for heating while fuelling a pollution crisis smothering the region. 650 words by Rusmir Smajilhodzic with Emmy Varley in Belgrade. Picture. File picture. Video Ethiopia-culture-religion-Christianity-Orthodoxy,EDITOR'S CHOICE GONDAR, Ethiopia Getahun Fetana spent years admiring Emebet Melaku from a distance before plucking up the nerve to speak to her, taking advantage of a chance encounter during Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of epiphany. 750 words by Robbie Corey-Boulet. Pictures by Eduardo Soteras. Video by Solan Kolli India-economy-gender-food-technology,EDITOR'S CHOICE MUMBAI Rashmi Sahijwala never expected to start working at the age of 59, let alone join India's gig economy -- now she is part of an army of housewives turning their homes into "cloud kitchens" to feed time-starved millennials. 750 words by Vishal Manve. Pictures by Punit Paranjpe. Video by Ammu Kannampilly Lifestyle-France-US-fashion-greenwashing,EDITOR'S CHOICE PARIS Paris fashion fortnight began with an apocalyptic warning. "Our Mother Earth will not be able to support life, we will not be able to breathe... If we don't open our hearts and our minds, it's the End," a disembodied voice intoned as hot Hollywood label Rhude made its Paris debut. 900 words by Fiachra Gibbons. Picture. File picture Brazil-disaster-mining,EDITOR'S CHOICE BRUMADINHO, Brazil Before saying a prayer for her older sister, Natalia de Oliveira lights a candle and places it next to rosary beads and a photo of her sibling killed in a massive dam collapse in Brazil. A year after the disaster that unleashed millions of tons of mining waste in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, de Oliveira still hopes Lecilda's body will be found beneath the mud. 700 words by Florence Goisnard. Picture. Video US-vote-road-industry-environment,EDITOR'S CHOICE CLAIRTON, United States White plumes of smoke billow into the frigid air above the rolling hills of western Pennsylvania, as scorching ovens bake the coal that rolls in by the trainload along the Monongahela River. 850 words by Shaun Tandon. Pictures by Brendan Smialowski. Video by Gilles Clarenne afp
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