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Omer looks different now, after spending 505 days in captivity in Gaza. His brown hair is cropped shorter than the floppy ...

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Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

Bad Bunny’s record-breaking is all the more notable because he raps and sings almost exclusively in his mother tongue. In the ...

Across the rich world, politicians of the left and the right decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. In May the ...