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Tracking looted antiquities in Sudan’s war

Just two months after civil war erupted in Sudan, in June 2023, a video circulated on social media showing paramilitary fighters inside a laboratory at the National Museum of Sudan, located in the heart of the country’s capital, Khartoum. While fierce fighting with the army continued outside the compound, the footage showed a group of men claiming that the corpses around them were victims of the regime.

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The National Museum of Sudan in Khartoum.
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Raquel Chan, the renowned Argentine scientist who created drought-tolerant seeds: β€˜GMOs have become a dirty word’

Climate change is setting the stage for increasingly extreme phenomena that present challenges to agriculture. In the Argentine city of Santa Fe, researcher Raquel LΓ­a Chan, 66, created GMO seeds designed to combat one of the countryside’s greatest threats: drought.

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Argentine scientist Raquel Chan in an undated photo.
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Bukhara and Tashkent: Opposing universes in Uzbekistan

One nation and two contrasting cities whose differences tell the story of Uzbekistan’s DNA. This is what’s entailed by visiting Bukhara and Tashkent, from the golden age of the Mongol and Persian empires to the days of the Soviet regime.

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Toqi Zargaron, a covered market with domes in the city of Bukhara (Uzbekistan).
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