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Iowa Republicans Are Open to Names Other Than Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis  The Wall Street Journal

Filmmaker Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies or leaving Iran. NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Vulture critic Roxana Hadadi about the work he manages to produce despite government restrictions.

We take a tour through Antakya, Turkey, a city that played an important role in Jewish, Christian and Muslim history. It was devastated by the recent earthquake.

Russia’s military has performed poorly, and Ukraine has defied expectations. But will these trends hold? Experts look at how the war could take a different path in its second year. (Image credit: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images)

Unlike Germany, which after World War II underwent a rigorous de-Nazification effort, pride, rather than shame, is the emotion many Italians feel for the symbols of the country’s fascist past. (Image credit: Sylvia Poggioli/NPR)

Artists warn that if the government passes bill to interfere in library leadership, they will refuse to donate archives or books to institution

The lack of women nominees was a talking point on Friday at the Cesar Awards, France’s answer to the Oscars, despite the top prize going to a film focusing on femicide. Best Film went to “The Night of the 12th”,

Philippine protesters rallied on Saturday to mark the 37th anniversary of the “People Power” revolution, which ousted President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s dictator father and sent the family into exile. It was the first commemoration of the uprising since Marcos Jr

US First Lady Jill Biden arrived in Kenya on Friday, kicking off a visit aimed at focusing attention on the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in decades. Five straight seasons of poor rainfall have killed millions of

UNESCO declared Manx Gaelic extinct in 2009. Years later, a letter from a primary school on the Isle of Man proved them wrong, so the organisation took a step back and set up a new category: revitalised languages. When 97-year-old