All world religions tackle responsibility and repentance; people ask for forgiveness daily by confessing or going on pilgrimages
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Short news from Canada
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Short news from Costa Rica.
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Short news from Saudi-Arabia.
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Short news from India.
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Short news from Mongolia.
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Short news from Indonesia.
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Those who get lost in the east of the old town of Marrakesh will find themselves in the quarter of the tanners. As a visitor to the city, you feel safe, but the offers for a guided tour or an invitation to a leather goods store become increasingly aggressive.
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The ostrich, a native of South Africa, has long played an important role in the nation's economy.
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In Burkina Faso, a chicken is a valuable asset but is rarely slaughtered for family meals.
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There is a lot of talk about Laura Codruta Kövesi in Romania at the moment. A year ago the chief prosecutor of the National Anti-Corruption Authority was dismissed by the government.
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The director, film lecturer and president of Akademie der Künste, Berlin, tells of her life.
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This house was built in the 1960s at the foot of the Chugach Mountains outside Anchorage, off the south coast of Alaska. At that time there were only two or three other houses in the area and they were only connected to the city by a dirt road.
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Why do people feel guilt? An investigation into this basic human emotion.
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In an interview, art historian Bénédicte Savoy and economist Felwine Sarr explain why European museums should return African art treasures.
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The encounter between Europe and Africa at the start of the industrial era was marked by violence and a negation of The Other. The extent and the sweeping consequences of this are yet to be explored.
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Following the end of apartheid, the land question looms large in South Africa: What will happen to arable land that was taken away from the black population? The government now wants to reverse the theft by implementing land reform.
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Kallie Kriel, who represents the interests of European farmers in South Africa, considers land reform to be unjust.
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How artists are shaking up our understanding of history.
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How Argentinian and British veterans of the Falkland War created an onstage drama about their experiences – from both sides of the battlefield.
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How a filmmaker seeks to give the Maori a voice.
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When he was 14 years old, Soun Rottana was kidnapped and became a child soldier for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, killing dozens of enemy combatants.
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Lotte Leicht, the EU director of Human Rights Watch, argues why is it important for victims' stories to be heard.
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After the genocide of 1994, there was no sense of community left in Rwanda. Gradually, we learned to live together again.
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How Somalian pirates held me hostage for years – and how I could forgive them in the end.
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Politicians and companies like to urge people to do their bit to help the environment, creating a smokescreen for their own failure to act.
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About architecture and feeling guilty. An interview with Zwi Hecker.
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The Syrian regime is a dictatorship like no other. Bashar al-Assad is trying to install a ruling dynasty and is exterminating his own people in the process. Meanwhile, the global community is looking the other way.
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In the past, society made us feel guilty. Today we do it ourselves.
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Guilt is a recurring theme in world literature. The author Bart van Es on why it still has not lost its current relevance.
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A year ago, Armenians flooded the streets and peacefully chased their prime minister out of the top office. How is the country doing today?
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Growth will ultimately lead us to our downfall, reckons the environmental economist Federico Demaria.
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Populism and nationalism promote hostility toward intellectualism and growing intolerance toward scientific knowledge endangers democracy. But what can we do about it?
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For a long time, Sinti and Roma culture was repressed in Europe. A new online archive aims to change that.
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In January, the Brazilian government relaxed restrictions on the purchase of guns, even though a large part of the population was opposed to the move.
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We should be grateful to students like Greta Thunberg who are taking on environmental issues.
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If anybody still needs proof that it is high time that we rethink how we ask about people's origins, they should watch a clip of German entertainer Dieter Bohlen that has been shared widely on social media.
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Italian poet Federico Italiano has created a volume of poetry called “Grand Tour”, which brings together the young European poetry scene. In an interview, he explains what the generation of writers have in common and the surprises he found along the way.
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Reni Eddo-Lodge explores how we talk about skin colour – and how we should.
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