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Most of the world maps you have seen in your life have passed their prime. The Mercator was designed by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The Winkel Tripel, National Geographic's preferred map style, dates back to 1921. And the Dymaxion…

Milan, Italy - Artists and cultural workers protested across Italy on Tuesday. A year later, theaters, music venues, cinemas and cultural spaces closed their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic - closings that left the 300,000 workers in…

This is a milestone for the WHO program to ensure the equitable distribution of Covid-19 shocks.

The global exchange program, which aims to make access to vaccines more equal, delivered its first major dose delivery to the West African nation of Ghana on Thursday, kicking off the largest mass vaccination campaign in history."Today is…

On Wednesday, a German court will deliver a historic verdict on state-sponsored torture by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the first trial worldwide. Almost ten years since the Arab Spring hit Syria on March 15, 2011,…

Workers carry away the monument to the fascist dictator in the Spanish enclave of Melilla.

Syria's economy is reaching a crisis pointAlmost a decade after the beginning of the civil war, Syria is in extreme need. That month, the Syrian pound hit an all-time low against the dollar on the black market, depreciating the value of…

The grand jury votes not to indict police officers involved in the arrest and suffocation of a 41-year-old man in Rochester, New York.The law enforcement officers who were involved in the arrest and death of an unarmed black man by…

Veteran French actor Gerard Depardieu denies raping an actress at his home in 2018.

Italians mourned on Tuesday for Luca Attanasio, the Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who was killed in an ambush with his bodyguard and driver in a humanitarian convoy with the World Food Program.The national…