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Henning Mankell appears in Berlin February 5, 2009.
Books
He wasn’t perfect. That’s what made him great. ‘Wallender’ and his brilliant creator.
A mosquito is caught in a plastic box by a mosquito researcher in the eastern German town of Leipzig.
Medicine
A Chinese pharmacologist who discovered a treatment for malaria in an ancient Chinese remedy gets a Nobel prize
Christian Ray Flores became a rock star in post-Soviet Russia in the '90s: "No one knew exactly how to make music like that but I did because I grew up overseas."
Global Politics
The guy who supplied the soundtrack for Boris Yeltsin’s Rock the Vote
Members of the Iraqi military train at the Counter Terrorism Service training location, as observed by U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 23, 2015.
Conflict
Here’s why the US training of foreign fighters hasn’t been successful
Nightfall tells the story of an island that cycles between 14 years of sunlight and 14 years of terrifying darkness.
Books
14 years of darkness? Ex-diplomat writes haunting novel about the night.
Anwar Diab Agha (left) and Ashraf Alamatouri are two of Vermont’s newest Syrian transplants.
Conflict
The Syrian diaspora now counts three families in Vermont
Health
A discussion of the European refugee and migrant crisis
A man holds out his Syrian passport
Global Politics
You are what you speak — how Europe is using language analysis to designate refugees
French sign
Culture
Is Beirut the codeswitching capital of the world?