THE COUNTRY’S AFRO-BRAZILIAN CENTRE TELLS THE TALE OF AN ENSLAVED POPULATION’S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL.

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From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague

In the impoverished island nation of Haiti, where gangs have largely supplanted the government, ordinary life has descended into a cycle of kidnapping, rape and murder. Louise Callaghan travels to the capital, Port-au-Prince, and meets some of the victims

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

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