The GroundTruth Project
June 27, 2014
One hundred years after the First World War, boundaries established after the armistice at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh hour" still shape many of today's conflicts. From ISIS's invasion of Mosul to Boko Haram's kidnapping of schoolgirls, GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott journeys from Iraq to Nigeria to the Balkans to Northern Ireland and the Holy Land to see how WWI's history lives on, the lessons learned — and far too often not learned.
Lifestyle & Belief
Slideshow: Bosnian Muslim Walking to Mecca for the Hajj
PRI's The World
March 12, 2012
A 47-year-old Bosnian Muslim is making a 3,600 miles pilgrimage from Bosnia to Mecca on foot. Each year millions of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to the Saudi city for the Hajj.
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Science, Tech & Environment
The Balkans' flooding is linked to climate change. And here's how
PRI's The World
May 20, 2014
Record flooding in the Balkans is just the latest extreme rain event influenced by climate change. A leading climate researcher explains why we need to get ready for more.
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Accused war criminal Goran Hadzic captured
The Takeaway
July 21, 2011
Serbian authorities say they have apprehended Goran Hadzic, the last remaining fugitive sought by the UN for war crimes during the Croatian War.
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Global Scan
Has Christopher Columbus' flagship been found off the coast of Haiti?
May 13, 2014
Christopher Columbus lost his flagship, the Santa María, on his first trip to North America and it has remained lost to history, until now. Meanwhile, NATO's successful intervention against Muammar Gaddafi gets a critical look, and Saudi Arabia tries to stop a disease by restricting affection for camels. All that and more, in today's Global Scan.
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Grandson of North Korean leader makes waves by attending Bosnian high school
PRI's The World
October 26, 2011
Kim Han Sol, grandson of Kim Jong Il, just started his last two years of high school and he's not doing it in North Korea. He's in Mostar, in Bosnia.
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Science, Tech & Environment
The worst flooding in a century in the Balkans is uncovering another menace — landmines
PRI's The World
May 19, 2014
Bosnia still has about 120,000 unexploded landmines from the war that raged there in the early 1990s. Now, after a week of heavy rains, flooding and landslides, those mines are on the move.
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Refugees in Fargo face cultural and climate challenges
PRI's The World
September 22, 2011
Fargo, North Dakota, is learning about its new refugee population, and how to help them with language, culture and climate challenges.
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Shades of Serbian massacres in Syrian violence
PRI's The World
March 26, 2012
In the 1990s, thousands were massacred in the provinces of the former Yugoslavia. It took years, really, for the international community to intervene and stop the killing. Now some are worried the situation in Syria may devolve into that sort of mass killing -- if it hasn't already.
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Conflict & Justice
A journalist who covered the Bosnian war testifies in war crimes trial of a key Serb commander
PRI's The World
May 21, 2014
The brutal war in Bosnia ended nearly 20 years ago. But at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague the conflict is still being dissected in detail. At the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, the prosecution has wrapped. Now for the defence.
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Politics
War crimes trial of Ratko Mladic inspires graffiti war in Serbia
PRI's The World
May 17, 2012
Ratko Mladic went on trial at The Hague this week, accused of committing war crimes during the ethnic violence there in the 1990s. He'd been on the run for years. His trial, though, has kindled strong feelings in Serbia and caused his foes and his fans to engage in an ongoing graffiti war.