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Beata Halassy’s aggressive form of breast cancer kept returning, until she chose to conduct a self-experiment. A molecular biologist, Halassy explored an untested treatment and injected herself with viruses to successfully fight off her cancer. It raises ethical debates, but also provides a glimpse into the future of personalized medicine.
The Argentine Lionel Messi is the personification of soccer sublime . He has come to move fans in ways that art lovers are moved by a painting.
Stunning images of the attack of Nova Kakhovka dam, which had been described as a strategically important target, serve as a reminder that military forces in past wars have set off similar disasters to take out dams’ power.
From Croatia to Spain, Portugal, Germany and France, revamped LNG gas routes are providing an agile European energy response to the cutting off of Russian gas since the war in Ukraine began.
As the Taliban closed in on Afghanistan, the European Union co-signed a joint statement with dozens of nations agreeing that “the Afghan people deserve to live in safety, security and dignity” and that the international community was “ready to assist them”. As someone who has been researching the refugee crisis on Europe’s borders for years, I found the statement surprising. Before it was making bold statements about events in Kabul, the EU had spent years failing to help thousands of Afghans seeking help at its borders. Since 2015, more than 570,000 Afghan citizens have sought protection in the EU. Thousands […]
Normally, the so-called ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’ would be teeming with tourists right now. Instead, the Croatian coastal city is strangely — but also wonderfully — empty.
Experts are pushing for expansion of the Fossa di Pomo project, which limits fishing to two days a week across a 1,500-km stretch of sea.
The “Five Wells Square” in the old Croatian city of Zadar is not a misnomer: For some reason, I could only squeeze four of them in that shot. Oh, well.
A popular tourist destination in the Adriatic sea is bracing for the construction of a floating, 400-million-euro regasification facility.
Under the authoritarian regime of Josip Broz Tito in then Yugoslavia, lots of shop windows were empty. Roadside vendors were a more reliable source of food there, with watermelons being a staple of domestic agriculture.
ZAGREB — The firepower displayed in Friday’s attacks in Paris, including multiple explosive devices and at least five Kalashnikovs, raises the inevitable question: Where do the terrorists’ weapons come from? Terror investigators and crime experts say the most likely source are Balkan countries, a vestige of the wars that consumed the region through much of […]
“Uncertain to the end,” Croatian-language daily Poslovni dvevnik writes on its Monday front page, a day after Croatia’s conservative opposition claimed a narrow victory in the country’s first election since it joined the European Union in 2013. The Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) has declared victory after Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but the leading opposition party failed […]
Patients versus doctors, electors versus parties and disappointed refugee aid response. The Internet may actually widen the gap between citizens and modern democratic institutions.
There are several ways to look at the statue of Pan and a Nymph, near Dubrovnik’s Gate of Pile.
CAIRO — There are two smiling European-looking 30-somethings waiting to welcome you to the new website, Liberland.org, while a hopeful-sounding logo proclaims, “Live and let live.” Formerly referred to as Gornja Siga, the seven square-kilometer state (slightly larger than the Vatican and Monaco) came into existence following a border dispute between Croatia and Serbia. The […]
This picture is old, but not as old as it seems: These men were actors taking a break on the set of a war movie on the river Krka in the historic town of Sibenik. Still, the image provides a slice of history, as we were on a trip through the Socialist Federal Republic of […]
While this may sound like something from a Disney film, we assure you that it is nothing less than true love: A male stork flies 13,500 kilometers every single year to be with his beloved. This year, for the twelfth time, the male known as Klepetan has made the journey all the way from southern […]
Worldcrunch 1. ARGENTINA – The twin sister of a murdered model is set to wed her dead sister’s killer, much to the dismay of her parents, according to Buenos Aires daily Clarín. The wedding has been in the works for months, but these two lovebirds hold back nothing when it comes to romance: the ceremony […]
A Bosnian Serb who fled the Balkans as a teenager reflects on how hard it is to face the past in the Balkans, as much for history’s winners as losers.