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A staggering 44% of human languages are endangered – with culture, tradition and whole ways of understanding the world at stake
We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the 18…
66 days ago
The Taybeh community has survived crusaders and the Ottoman and British empires, but the latest attacks leave its future in question
Taybeh, a small hilltop town in the heart of the West Bank is one o…
85 days ago
Drosopigi, the Mani, Greece: This rocky region’s abundance of flora takes the breath away – not least a long and winding trail of Chios chamomile
The Greek name for this southernmost tip of the Pelopo…
3 months ago
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A nationless ethnic group of more than 30 million people, their homegrown militia has a reputation as an effective fighting force
The Kurds are one of the biggest ethnic groups in the world without th…
US vice-president’s post marks first time Trump administration used the word to describe the massacres
The White House has deleted a social media post in which the vice-president, JD Vance, referred t…
4 months ago
Palazzo Ca’ Dario, empty for years, has failed to find a new owner, with local legends suggesting it is jinxed
It ought to be an estate agent’s dream. Primely positioned on the banks of the Grand Cana…
5 months ago
For more than three decades, the Nassars have battled Israeli efforts to reclassify their property as ‘state land’
In 1916, Daher Nassar, a Christian Palestinian farmer living south of Bethlehem, made…
It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for some
It was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrack…
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Caterham was born in Hampshire in August 1909, when Edward VII reigned, and now lives in care home in Surrey
Ethel Caterham, the last surviving Edwardian and the world’s oldest living person, celebrat…
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