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They are the prized bounty of Haiti’s hard-fought struggle for freedom, taken in battle from European powers and then placed on top of the country’s most revered monument, Citadelle Henry, to guard against French occupation. National treasures, the 18th century cannons are priceless and come in various weights and dimensions. The largest of them, cast in iron, flank the mountaintop fortress outside of the northern city of Cap-Haïtien in the rural town of Milot. Smaller ones, cast in bronze with intricate markings hinting at their origins, have been safely tucked away behind locked doors in a m...
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Italy saw a record number of visitors to its state-run museums in 2023, the Ministry of Culture said in Rome, as tourists flocked to the Mediterranean country's impressive array of monuments and archaeological sites. Just under 58 million visits to Italian state-run museums were tallied, topping the previous record of 55 million from 2018 before the coronavirus pandemic. The figure was also a significant increase on 2022's 46 million. The single most visited attraction was the Colosseum in the capital Rome with 12 million visitors, bringing in an estimated €80 million ($86.4 million). Next on ...
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Sometimes when musician Hesham Hamra plucks the strings of his oud, he is flooded with images of his homeland, Syria. "Every now and then I close my eyes and go from our house in Damascus to a friend's flat in my head," he says. "Then I smell the scent of jasmine on the streets." "Jasmine" is also the name of a virtuoso piece he composed for the Ensemble Colourage from Ludwigshafen, a German city located roughly between the French border and Frankfurt. Colourage is a poetic play on words made up of colour, courage and collage. The group chose it as they sought to bring together music from the ...
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The sound of Taylor Swift's song "Shake It Off" echoes powerfully through the Protestant Heiliggeistkirche church in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in south-west Germany. Singer Tine Wiechmann stands at the microphone at the front, accompanied by band members on piano, bass and drums. The church's pastor, Vincenzo Petracca, claps along enthusiastically. The visitors sway and dance in their seats, many of them singing along to the 34-year-old's global hit. About 1,200 people from all age groups attend two pop church services with live music by Taylor Swift. Almost all ...
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The trial of Donald Trump relating to the payment of hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels could land the former US president in prison, author Salman Rushdie told dpa in Berlin on Tuesday. "Well, I think this trial that's underway now in New York City has a serious possibility of sending him to jail, because the attempt to suppress the Stormy Daniels story was clearly a way of affecting the electoral process by keeping essential information away from voters," the 76-year-old author said. The public prosecutor's office in New York accuses Trump of wanting to improve his chances of success in ...
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A man accused of aiding in the spectacular theft of royal jewels from the historic Green Vault in the eastern German city of Dresden was acquitted on Wednesday following a trial. The burglary on November 25, 2019 is considered one of the most spectacular art thefts in Germany. The perpetrators stole 21 pieces of diamond and brilliant-cut diamond jewellery from the Green Vault (Grünes Gewölbe), which houses Europe's largest treasure collection. The thieves also caused more than €1 million ($1.1 million) in damage during the break-in of the museum located in Dresden Castle. The 24-year-old man a...
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