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World events

Greece successfully deactivated a 500-pound, WWII-era bomb that was buried under a gas station — without killing anybody.
The unexploded bomb was discovered near Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city. Before working on its deactivation, officials called for one of the country’s largest peacetime evacuations — 70,000 people left the area. The bomb was successfully deactivated, extracted and transported to a military shooting range where it will be destroyed. [NPR]

More than 20,000 people protested Donald Trump in Mexico yesterday.
The protests took place in 18 cities across Mexico and were backed by 70 organizations, including Amnesty International, a collection of universities and many local businesses. [NBC]

Being a better writer

This interview will show you what it’s like to be an “immersion reporter.”
Ted Conover has spent 30 years immersing himself in lives different from his own. For 10 months, Conover was a guard at a maximum-security prison. For a year, he hopped freight trains. He’s also devoted months to working alongside undocumented Mexican laborers and recently worked undercover as a federal meat inspector in the U.S. Katia Savchuck interviews him for Neiman Storyboard here. Another great immersion storyteller: Barbara Ehrenreich.