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Directed by the Afghan-born Canadian filmmaker Salar Pashtoonyar, Hills and Mountains recalls how the Soviet invasion of ...

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Grief is not only for the dead. When we are unable to honour other profound losses, we become strangers to ourselves ...

What happened when people in Bhutan, the last country on Earth without television, were allowed to watch it in 1999?

Horrific violence, enduring terror and ceaseless solidarity: four years of war through the eyes of Ukrainian civilians ...

A few months ago, I sat in a packed university auditorium listening to a celebrated computer scientist explain the brilliance of large language models (LLMs). These systems optimise, he said. And they ...

These women once fled ISIS. Now they defuse the landmines the militants left behind in their Yazidi homeland in northern Iraq ...

Built from vegetal materials, these majestic tombs housing Buganda kings bridge the realms of living and dead in Uganda ...

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