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He wouldn’t let go

Simon McBurney’s acclaimed company Complicité asks us what it is to remember and to forget, and whether culture or chaos shapes our destiny

In the run-up to the Paris Olympic Games, human rights activists have alleged that authorities are engaged in "social cleansing", a government policy of removing the homeless from the city, which the authorities deny. But a number of non-profits have presented evidence documenting the methods used by the authorities to…

The 1980s saw a shift that elevated LGBTQ movies to the mainstream

Ahmed Herzallah, his wife and three children have been catapulted into the unknown after fleeing their destroyed home

Like hundreds of other pro-Turkish fighters, Omar left northern Syria for mineral-rich Niger last year, joining Syrian mercenaries sent to the West African nation by a private Turkish military company.

A nurse battles to give a dead Somali refugee a dignified burial as the English police set out to retrieve his body and cover up their crime

The death of a Christian political leader has sparked a wave of vigilante attacks on Syrians, fuelled by political scapegoating

In 1985, Columbia students occupied campus to push for divestment from South Africa. Five months later, the university cut ties to the apartheid regime after years of dragging its feet

A bikie associate who allowed a murder getaway vehicle to be stashed at his mother's unit complex was later found with more than half a million dollars cash.

Across Britain, families are calling for an end to the violence. But what should be shared and discussed with younger members, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett