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This Happened — September 10: First Invictus Games Kick Off In London

Updated September 10, 2024 at 10:50 a.m. Ten years ago on this day, the first Invictus Games opened at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, which had been the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics. The Games lasted from September 10 to 14. What are the Invictus Games? The Invictus Games is an international sporting […]

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Le Vele Chronicles: The Mob And Urban Ideals Mix In A Naples Housing Complex

The tragic death of two people inside the Neapolitan housing complex has thrown the spotlight back on a place that had transformed quickly from model city to a Camorra stronghold. Le Vele are now once again a model for other suburbs.

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Lisbon Has A Plan To Fight Gentrification And Mass Tourism: Bring Back The Locals!

The “Return to the Neighborhood” program aims to recover vacant houses in order to create affordable rentals that will allow former residents to return to Lisbon’s historic center.

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Russia-Ukraine War

Inside Moscow’s Vile Scheme To Kidnap And “Russify” Ukrainian Children

In Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, an estimated 19,000 children have been abducted and put in so-called “filtration camps,” Soviet-era-like facilities where they are being “re-educated” in brutal conditions. Exclusive testimony from several victims who managed to escape.

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The Earthquake Will Change Turkey’s Future — And Could Tip Its Election

A reflection of what the Feb. 6 earthquake exposes deep problems in Turkish public life over the past two decades, and what we can expect in the coming months and years.

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Society

Bangladesh-India Citizenship Pact, Like Fall Of Berlin Wall

An agreement reached last month between India and Bangladesh has given citizenship to 50,000 previously stateless people who lived in disputed territory.

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The Italian Prison That Teaches Inmates To Walk Your Dogs

It’s 1:05 p.m. and lessons are starting slightly late today at the dog-sitter course. But this is not your usual dog sitting class: It’s taking place at Bollate prison, just north of Milan. Every Thursday until November, 18 inmates will spend four hours (two hours of practical lessons and two hours of theory) learning until […]

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Can France ‘Cure’ Its Aspiring Jihadists?

Just a few months before the Paris terror attacks, and arguably late to the game, France launched a “disindoctrination” program for Islamist radicals that relies on social and religious approaches.

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Future

Why A Coma May Be Saving Michael Schumacher’s Life

The German driving legend has been in an artificially induced coma for more than a month since a ski accident. Doctors take us inside the state-of-the-art head trauma treatment.

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Society

Saving The Orphaned Orangutans Of Malaysia

Often victms of human encroachment, these animals have been left without their mothers. But it is also humans who help teach them they can swing from branches.

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