The Newroz holiday comes at a critical time, as Kurds in Turkey push for peace while their brethren in Syria and Iran fear further conflict.

Croatian cellist Stjepan Hauser’s concert in Lithuania has been cancelled after he performed the Russian folk song ‘Kalinka’, ...

The death metal vocalist makes a fresh start and teases that the heavy new song is also one of the “lightest” things her new band have been working on ...

It is a three-level game. It combines the state’s predominant financial regionalism with cultural distinctiveness, and the ...

The rock-and-roll pioneer and the Catholic historian met by chance in Rome and discovered a shared faith that blossomed into friendship — and nearly 100 songs together.

Nearly half of the total nominated films at the Academy Awards are international productions. Those numbers stand out, even in a year when the awards feel like a race between two distinctly American ...

"Xiangxi used the five-year transition period to effectively link the consolidation and expansion of poverty-alleviation achievements with rural vitalization," Liu said ahead of the NPC session last ...

Augie Meyers, the Texas musician whose organ playing defined the sounds of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, has ...

At this year's "two sessions," I brought a hand-made Perler bead "hat" inspired by traditional Hezhe patterns as a small gift to Liu Lei, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, and a member ...

The Kurds are an ethnic minority group in the Middle East, living mostly in Armenia, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. With an estimated population between 30 and 40 million worldwide, they are considered ...

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