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BIRN Bosnia and Herzegovina’s documentary about rock guitarist Samir ‘Bowie’ Mehic, looking back on his wartime life in besieged Srebrenica before his death in the July 1995 genocide, is available on YouTube.

The House of Representatives’ plenary session is set to review on Monday a bill that would formalize an exceptional role for the Future of Egypt for Sustainable Development Authority, spanning food security, agriculture and land management, supply and development roles formerly handled by several ministries and state agencies. The bill submitted by the government raced  through the committee revie

Phoenix Ancient Art funneled objects of shaky provenance into dozens of museums. Why are many of them still there?

The discovery suggests humans may have maintained relationships with wolves long after domesticated dogs came on the scene

Every evening just before sunset, Salima Kitwana hobbles into her backyard holding a photograph. In the picture, her son Hemedi, wearing a green football jersey, smiles awkwardly into the camera, unaware that his fate would soon be engulfed in one of Tanzania’s darkest political chapters. At 57, Kitwana has lived with diabetes for nine years, […]

It’s no small project to found a new society, especially when you’re doing it on the scale of a place like Russia. Apart from the considerable practical challenges it entails, there’s also the need for symbols bold enough to represent the underlying ideal. The avant-garde artist Vladimir Tatlin took it upon himself to create just […]

I admit, I sometimes pay a premium at a certain dinner theater chain with a lobby-slash-bar designed to look like classic indie video stores of yore. It’s not only the padded recliners and half-decent grub that keeps me coming back. Nope, it’s the rules. Printed on the menu are a list of disruptive behaviors that […]

The United States struck Iran on Monday for a second day running, drawing Tehran’s reprisals against US allies in the Gulf as the foes battle over the status of the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The flare-up is the latest to undermine an interim agreement between Washington and Tehran aimed at ending their war, which has caused global economic shockwaves since it began in late February. The latest s

Atomic energy organisation in Iran says Bushehr nuclear power plant 'safe and stable' The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) has said that the Bushehr nuclear power plant is "safe and stable" in response to circulating claims that it was targeted.  "The Bushehr nuclear power plant is in a completely normal, safe, and stable state, an