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Bosnia and Herzegovina in crisis as Bosnian-Serb ...

Bosnia and Herzegovina in crisis as Bosnian-Serb ...

17 Jul 2025 — The fragile 30-year peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina is under threat from Serbian nationalists.

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What is most likely going on in Area 51? A national security ...

What is most likely going on in Area 51? A national security ...

Area 51 remains off-limits to civilian and regular military air traffic, a decade after the government acknowledged its existence. The 68 years ...

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Ten years of A Little Life – what's behind the enduring ...

Ten years of A Little Life – what's behind the enduring ...

Queer canon or queer controversy? A Little Life has become one of the one of the most widely read and loved queer novels of the last decade.

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How Kamala Harris won the U.S. presidential debate ...

How Kamala Harris won the U.S. presidential debate ...

Donald Trump and his supporters have trotted out an array of conspiracies about why he struggled so badly in his first debate against Kamala ...

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Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts ...

Why Easter is called Easter, and other little-known facts ...

The naming of the celebration as “Easter” seems to go back to the name of a pre-Christian goddess in England, Eostre, who was celebrated at beginning of spring.

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How the war in Iraq unintentionally helped stabilise Bosnia

How the war in Iraq unintentionally helped stabilise Bosnia

The revelation that a Bosnian company had broken the arms embargo on Iraq unified three armies which had been fighting each other a decade ...

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What is hepatitis A and how can you get it from eating ...

What is hepatitis A and how can you get it from eating ...

10 Apr 2018 — Freezing fruit does not inactivate the hepatitis A virus, which remains stable and able to cause human infections when consumed. Heat can kill ...

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Harris nudges ahead of Trump in the polls

Harris nudges ahead of Trump in the polls

The current US vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, appears to have nudged ahead of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, in the ...

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The French baron who revived the Olympics believed they ...

The French baron who revived the Olympics believed they ...

Coubertin's desire to resurrect the Olympic Games after 1,500 years of dormancy was prompted by his concerns about challenges and changes in the ...

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Three reasons why Mattarella's reappointment as Italy's ...

Three reasons why Mattarella's reappointment as Italy's ...

1 Feb 2022 — To this end, Mattarella is a critical pro-Europe stabilising force for Italy, ensuring that Draghi will remain prime minister until 2023. Beyond ...

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Phryge, the friendly Paris Olympics 2024 mascot, and ...

Phryge, the friendly Paris Olympics 2024 mascot, and ...

Mascot creators were inspired by “the famous Phrygian cap — a symbol of freedom.” The red Olympic Phryge (pronounced FREE-juh) and Paralympic ...

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Why Elon Musk's US$34 billion loss wasn't really that

Why Elon Musk's US$34 billion loss wasn't really that

The world's richest person, Elon Musk, had “lost” US$34 billion (£25 billion) in a single day. That figure exceeds the annual GDP of countries like Iceland, ...

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How Vladimir Putin was able to change Russia's ...

How Vladimir Putin was able to change Russia's ...

Putin won his fourth presidential election in March 2018. Between that moment and his announcement in January 2020 that he was initiating a ...

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How do you solve a problem like Louis-Ferdinand Céline?

How do you solve a problem like Louis-Ferdinand Céline?

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (the pen-name of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches), claimed in 1944 that manuscripts of several novels had been stolen from him.

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James Bond and Aston Martin's DB5

James Bond and Aston Martin's DB5

For the first time in 1964's Goldfinger (Hamilton), James Bond drives an Aston Martin – model DB5 – like his literary alter ego (Goldfinger, Ian ...

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Leiden University

Leiden University

Leiden University, founded in 1575, is a leading international research university with seven faculties, over 33,000 students, and a strong international ...

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Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes ...

Saturn now has 274 moons – but exactly what makes ...

13 Mar 2025 — The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons, the most of any planet in the Solar System. The discovery has raised a lot of questions.

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