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(ZAGREB, Croatia) — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely...

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.

Well before the actress fought stigma by announcing that she had undergone the operation, she had worked to publicise the horrors of the Bosnian warAn article written by Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie provoked headlines around the world when she...

One of the finest chroniclers of Europe during wartime is now unjustly neglected. Caroline Moorehead reviews Deirdre David's "Olivia Manning: A Woman at War."

Jason Szep (Reuters, May 16, 2013) A 16-year-old Muslim boy lay dying on a thin metal table. Bitten by a rabid dog a month ago, he convulsed and drooled as his parents wedged a stick between his teeth to stop him from biting off his tongue....

The lineup for this year's Eurovision Song Contest has been decided with the last 10 songs being chosen at the second semi-final. Finland's lesbian…    

A new report suggests they were mad about U.S. foreign policy. The truth: it's more complicated than just that    

Weather forecasters have a tougher job predicting winter conditions over Europe in some years over others, concludes a new study.

A Keynote to The European Travel Commission, May 2013 I once ran with the bulls of Pamplona... by mistake, involuntarily. I was at Microsoft, where we were developing a new travel product that would become Expedia, and we had the idea to use a new...

This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Outside the United States, the Pentagon controls a collection of military bases unprecedented in history. With US troops gone from Iraq and the withdrawal from Afghanistan underway, it's easy...