South Sudanese refugees at the Bidi Bidi camp in Uganda.
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Uganda has won praise for the way it treats its refugees. But now it is at breaking point.
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Recent attacks on Coptic churches represent a step-up from the sectarian violence of the past few decades.
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Are we really filtering out our ability to cope with our own imperfections?
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‘Nurse practitioners’ and ‘physician associates’ were roles created in the US to make up for a shortfall in doctors. Now the NHS is encouraging their use.
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But why stop at England? A ‘devo-max’ broadcasting hub would be more visionary.
A pro-Assad protester during the 2011 protests.
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The West’s chosen solution to the Syrian conflict demands action that it’s unwilling to take.
Orthodox Easter in Syria.
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Christian calendars usually differ when it comes to Easter celebrations – but not in 2017.
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Russia’s relationship with the West is on a knife edge after the US bombing of Syria. But the ghosts of Cold War past have lessons for today’s political leaders.
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And if you don’t, there’s still time to change.
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Early intervention for children with autism just got earlier.
Professor Kasimir Popkonstantinov and the marble reliquary that potentially held John the Baptist’s bones.
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Here’s what DNA analysis of relics purported to be from Jesus or his family can actually tell us.
Enlightened.
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The doctor had many interests – and was a champion of the poor.
Off to robojail?
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How do you punish a criminal robot?
The official opening of the League of Nations, 15 November 1920.
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Both the EU and UK would do well to heed the lessons of the League of Nations when it comes to membership withdrawal.
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A troublesome ‘little brother’ is exhausting the sympathy on which it heavily relies.
‘So, you’ve run out of lentils, eh?’
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If Doctor Who is supposed to respect members of other species, not all of his incarnations see eye to eye when it comes to dinner.
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Algorithms can’t sort out the truth from the dross. People must become more social media savvy.
The abandoned medieval village of Wharram Percy, where fears of the walking dead were acted out.
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Whatever drove villagers to dig up the dead and mutilate their corpses may seem to strange to us, but it was evidently real for them.
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Those on the far right already worry about finite resources and protecting traditional culture, and they see the natural landscape as a big part of national identity.
Route forward? Oregon was the first place to license doctors to supply lethal drugs to terminally-ill people.
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An assisted-dying law in the UK is long overdue.
Rachel Dolezal speaking at Spokane rally, May 2015.
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To understand the full context of Rachel Dolezal’s ‘transracialism’ it pays to look at the history of race and slavery.
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The next generation of reactors provide in-built safety systems and a way to reuse old fuel.
In the 1950s, Reggio Calabria on the toe of Italy, was a dangerous place to grow up.
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When floods hit the toe of Italy, children were sent away, often for years.
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Diners deployed a giant conga dance as a pretext to head outside to their cars and flee the scene.
And they’re off… the finalists.
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The final battle has been fought on the popular BBC quiz show … but new stars have risen.