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After Syria’s 14-Year Civil War, a Search for Victims Leads to Mass Graves

21 novembre 2025 à 06:01
More than 100,000 people disappeared during the 13-year civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.

© Emile Ducke for The New York Times

A trench at the Najha cemetery near Damascus, Syria. The area is believed to hold a mass grave.

Experience: I found an old Rembrandt in a drawer

21 novembre 2025 à 06:00

I guessed it would be worth a couple of hundred pounds at most, but it was a preparatory print for his famous 1639 etching The Goldweigher

My father died 20 years ago, when I was 26, and my mother died 10 years later. I’ve always felt grateful that one of the things they passed on to me was a love of art. My dad, Alan Barlow, was a stage designer, a Benedictine monk and then, after marrying my mother, Grace – who was a GP – he became a full-time artist.

In his studio in Norfolk, there were two big Victorian plan chests, where he stored paper and sketches he had created. He was also an art collector and some of the drawers contained artworks he had bought but didn’t have wall space for. For a long time, I didn’t feel ready to go through everything in his studio. I always felt connected to him when I went in there.

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© Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

© Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

© Photograph: Fabio De Paola/The Guardian

Serbian president faces legal complaint in Sarajevo ‘sniper-tourism’ case

Milan allegations link Aleksandar Vučić to 1990s shootings of civilians in Bosnian capital by Italians and others

A Croatian investigative reporter has filed a complaint with Milan prosecutors against the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vučić, for his alleged involvement in the “Sarajevo safari” affair, in which snipers from Italy and other countries allegedly travelled to the Bosnian capital to kill civilians during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s.

Last week, Milan prosecutors launched an investigation aimed at identifying the Italians allegedly involved on charges of voluntary murder aggravated by cruelty and abject motives.

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© Photograph: Michael Stravato/AP

© Photograph: Michael Stravato/AP

© Photograph: Michael Stravato/AP

Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett

21 novembre 2025 à 06:00

Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country

At first sight, few suspected that Francisco Franco might become a strongman capable of imposing a brutal dictatorship across four decades. He was a short, squeaky voiced army officer with a shaky grasp on non-military matters and zero charisma. Yet he did exactly that, before dying of natural causes in a Madrid hospital, 50 years ago this week.

Even today, Franco serves as a warning that outward mediocrity is no barrier to the ruthlessly ambitious. Behind the dull facade lay a slippery, clever operator. Franco’s ambition was underpinned by an iron will, a glib indifference to violence and unbounded self-esteem.

Giles Tremlett is the author of El Generalisimo and Ghosts of Spain

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© Photograph: Hulton Getty

© Photograph: Hulton Getty

© Photograph: Hulton Getty

St. John’s Dillon Mitchell sparks defensive physicality Rick Pitino has been waiting for

21 novembre 2025 à 05:35
St. John’s showed more of an edge Thursday night, especially on the glass. Rick Pitino has wanted to see more physicality from what he has called his “finesse” team, and saw some of that in the 14th-ranked Johnnies’ 97-49 rout of Bucknell at Carnesecca Arena. St. John’s was plus-22 in rebounding, had 44 points in...

Elon Musk’s Grok AI tells users he is fitter than LeBron James and smarter than da Vinci

21 novembre 2025 à 05:25

Users noted that in a raft of now-deleted posts, the chatbot would frequently rank Musk top in any given field

Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, has been telling users the world’s richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts that have called into question the bot’s objectivity.

Users on X using the artificial intelligence chatbot in the past week have noted that whatever the comparison – from questions of athleticism to intelligence and even divinity – Musk would frequently come out on top.

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© Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Algi Febri Sugita/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock

Somali terror group Al-Shabaab ‘taking a cut’ of millions in stolen Minnesota taxpayer money from welfare fraud scheme: report

21 novembre 2025 à 04:39
The radical Islamic terror group, which is a longstanding ally of al Qaeda and considered a threat to US interests, has likely been the beneficiary of money stolen in a spate of scams and sent to Somalia by the criminals defrauding the North Star State, City Journal reported on Wednesday, citing federal counterterrorism sources. 

Woman jailed for 20 years over death of Australian surfer brothers and American man in Mexico

21 novembre 2025 à 04:29

Mexican woman Ary Gisell Silva, 23, admitted she instigated robbery of Jake and Callum Robinson, as well as American Jack Carter Rhoad

A Mexican court sentenced a woman to 20 years in prison for her involvement in the April 2024 killings of two Australian surfers and an American at a surfing hotspot in Baja California, judicial authorities said Thursday.

The victims were Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, aged 30 and 33, respectively, and Jack Carter Rhoad, a 30-year-old US citizen.

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