Chanting “Impunity is Over!” or dancing against sexual violence, women’s rights activists protested Friday in multiple cities in France and abroad against President Emmanuel Macron’s appointment of a new interior...
25 years since the Srebrenica genocide
Bosnians are set to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the genocide at Srebrenica, which left more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys dead. #Srebrenica #BosnianWar #25thAnniversary
Bosnian war saw worst fighting on European soil since WWII
The Srebrenica genocide took place at the end of the Bosnian War, a brutal conflict that happened after the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It left more than 100 thousand people dead and displaced more than 2.2...
Back into a mosque | Turkey’s Hagia Sophia to reopen for Muslim prayers
Turkey’s Hagia Sophia museum has been converted back into a mosque, after a court annulled a 1934 decision to turn it into a museum. Once a cathedral, then a mosque and, until yesterday, a museum, Istanbul’s famous...
Battle of Britain: The schoolgirl who helped design the Spitfire – BBC News
Meet the young mathematician who helped design the Spitfire, the iconic aircraft that took part in the Battle of Britain, which started 80 years ago. Hazel Hill helped her father do the calculations that meant Spitfires...
Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia reconversion to a mosque causes ‘deep pain to the Russian people’
Turkey’s top court allowed Istanbul’s 6th-century Hagia Sophia museum’s conversion back to a mosque, a victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who called for the change and signed a decree immediately after...
Turkish top court revokes Hagia Sophia’s museum status, ‘tourists should still be allowed in’
Turkey’s top court ruled that Istanbul’s 6th-century Hagia Sophia’s conversion from a mosque to a museum in the 1930’s was “unlawful”, paving the way to a reconversion into a house of worship. It is a victory for...