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| Title | Date published | ||
| Cambodia war crimes | 2022-06-17 | ||
| James Joyce and Ulysses | 2022-06-16 | ||
| New York's LGBT High School | 2022-06-15 | ||
| Vietnam's 'Napalm Girl' | 2022-06-14 | ||
| Holy Cross school dispute | 2022-06-13 | ||
| The Gulabi Gang | 2022-06-10 | ||
| How Sri Lanka's president survived a suicide bombing | 2022-06-09 | ||
| Saving Gabon's rainforest | 2022-06-08 | ||
| The Diary of Anne Frank | 2022-06-07 | ||
| The assassination of Bobby Kennedy | 2022-06-06 | ||
| The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II | 2022-06-03 | ||
| Sarin attack in Syria | 2022-06-02 | ||
| Life in the biggest Syrian refugee camp in the world | 2022-06-01 | ||
| Civil Rights activist Ida B Wells | 2022-05-31 | ||
| The attack on Lod Airport | 2022-05-30 | ||
| Georgia O'Keeffe | 2022-05-27 | ||
| The World Festival of Black Arts | 2022-05-26 | ||
| The museum of banned Russian art | 2022-05-25 | ||
| The last days of Frida Kahlo | 2022-05-24 | ||
| Meeting Picasso | 2022-05-23 |