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In the shadow of the Imam Hamza mosque in the region of the ancient kingdom of Babylon, a carpet market that was once bustling...
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Big Ben, the bell inside London’s iconic clock tower which has been silent since August, will chime again on key upcoming dates but the...
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France and Qatar were running neck-and-neck in the race to lead the UN’s troubled cultural body after a third round of voting Wednesday whittled...
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After two rounds of voting to pick the next head of the UN’s troubled cultural body, Qatari diplomat Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kawari has emerged...
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The board of the UN’s cultural body on Wednesday began vetting eight candidates vying to head an organisation accused of bias in the Israeli-Palestinian...
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The cost of renovating the British parliament’s clock tower, which houses Big Ben, has more than doubled to £61 million (69 million euros, $82...
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Workers in Moscow have erased the illustration of a gun from a freshly-inaugurated monument of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the legendary AK-47 assault rifle,...
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Heritage groups in New Zealand on Monday welcomed a decision to rebuild Christchurch’s Anglican cathedral, six years after it was extensively damaged in a...
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When the Taliban charged in to Afghanistan’s state-run film company in the mid-1990s intent on destroying all the movies, Habibullah Ali risked everything to...
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A weather forecast for sailors around British waters, which became an iconic radio broadcast that inspired poets and singers with its exotic names, celebrated...