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The enormous quantity of foreign human remains stored by UK museums represents a disgraceful inheritance of colonial rule, with many specimens kept in ways that offend spiritual beliefs, MPs and archaeologists say. A probe by CuriosityNews discovered that British museums possess over 263,000 human‑remains items from across the

China’s foreign minister says Iran war ‘should never have happened’ Amy Hawkins China’s foreign minister Wang Yi said the conflict in the Middle East “should never have occurred,” while adopting a more conciliatory stance toward the United States ahead of a much‑watched visit by Donald Trump. Wang

The Kurds constitute one of the largest peoples on the planet without a sovereign state. With a population estimated at 30‑40 million, most reside in the rugged terrain that straddles the frontiers of Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. Kurds trace their origins to the Medes, an ancient civilization

Germany will permit wolf hunting after the lower house approved a law prompted by a fast‑expanding wolf population and a marked increase in livestock attacks. The resurgence and expansion of wolves over the past thirty years has become a divisive topic in Germany, the country of the Brothers Grimm

The inaugural charter flight carrying British citizens from the Middle East back to the United Kingdom has departed, with the prime minister describing the ongoing evacuation as one of the largest of its type. Keir Starmer noted that the postponed aircraft from Oman, which had been slated to leave at

South Africa’s head of state Cyril Ramaphosa has labelled Donald Trump’s plan to let white Afrikaners seek refugee status in the United States “racist,” adding that the American president was “truly uninformed,” a rare moment of outright censure. Ramaphosa told the New York Times that the Oval Office