Short news from Canada.
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Short news from Guatemala.
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Short news from Niger.
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Now shoppers perusing Finland's supermarket shelves can find grasshopper bread, or Sirkkaleipä. Its manufacturer trumpets its high protein content, boosted by the seventy dried and ground grasshoppers in each loaf.
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Short news from Singapore.
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Short news from South Korea.
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Any wooden bridge would quickly rot in the damp north Indian jungle. That's why, for hundreds of years, locals have simply grown bridges out of the trees.
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About a special animal in Nigeria.
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"That's a pretty boy" or "I have a great new job" are sentences which are rarely heard in Egypt for fear that they spark envy and the evil eye.
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In France food is always a big topic!
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In the Afghanistani province of Kabul a major talking point is air pollution which kills more citizens than the war.
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The Bulgarian Software ingenieur - and amateur radio lover - tells of his life
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Life is not possible without heroes. The author Cornelia Funke explains our need for role models and difference between idols of children and adults.
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An investigation into what makes a hero.
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For a long time the male gaze dominated the arts and it was up to men to turn women into heroes. But one hashtag was enough to shake up the role of women in Hollywood.
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Angela Merkel are two leaders who couldn't be more different: One is happy to consider himself a hero, the other shies away from superlatives.
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How I learnt about heroism by listening to Palestinian fighters.
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Who do people look up to who are looked up to themselves? We found out.
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The much-hyped soldier Lei Feng has been dead for over fifty years but to this day, the Communist Party of China continues to tout him as a moral role model.
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Philippe Sands talks about his work as a human rights lawyer.
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Why is every attempt to critically revisit Polish history stigmatised as anti-Polish?
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On Ukraine's response to the death of soldiers who died in the east of the country.
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What happens when the unsung heroes of bureaucracy take centre stage?
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The director Laura Bispuri questions the Italian image of the "mamma perfetta".
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How New York's glorious "hero sandwich" munched its way onto the US literary scene.
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The Pakistani comic character Burka Avenger fights for girls' rights.
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Natural gas has brought wealth and work to Hammerfest. But not everyone is happy about the development.
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More and more young people are pushing for change and joining Congo's Lucha movement, despite the risks.
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In Rumania authors face a tax hike. That is dangerous for freedom of expression.
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The media are a favourite toy of the Moldovan parties. Many television channels and news portals are openly or covertly linked to parties and the independent press is looked down on. Therefore, it is not surprising that two-thirds of Moldovans are convinced that the press is politically controlled.
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In dealings with women in the cultural industry there was long a certain freedom granted to anyone who was rich or successful enough.
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In October 2017, the USA announced its withdrawal from UNESCO, the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
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From the epistolary novel to Rilke’s shorthand for modern dedication to art: Literature professor Sandra Richter explores how German-language literature is seen, and how it spreads, on the world stage.
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Science fiction, eco-thriller, voodoo grotesque: writer and musician Rita Indiana sends her characters on wild trips, not to mention travelling in time.
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