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Austria s conservative-green coalition, though currently facing a crisis linked to corruption allegations, has been cited as a possible model for Germany s current post-election talks to form a new government. Could there be a logic to pairing the center-right CDU and the Greens in Berlin?
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov have won the Nobel Peace Prize for their fight to defend freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia.Ressa, who co-founded the news site Rappler, was commended by the Nobel committee for using freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of
IN 1935, a German ethnomusicologist named Robert Lachmann was fired from his library job and fled from the Nazis to Jerusalem. Born in Berlin to a Jewish family, he had learned to speak fluent Arabic as a young man and had begun to study the forms and structures of Arabic song while working as an interpreter for North African POWs during World War I. He later traveled to Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Egypt, conducting extensive fieldwork on secular and liturgical music while developing a wide area of expertise ranging from medieval to modern songs and encompassing everything from Kurdish and