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The amazing and unknown story of how American secret services partnered with their erstwhile Russian adversary, Russia’s main military intelligence organization the GRU; or how climate change forced the two rival blocks to collaborate.

The world’s most powerful intelligence service, the CIA, engaged in the controversial area of climate change and extreme weather events in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War. This is the story of their cooperation with their Russian counterparts, the GRU.
A story full of high politics, intelligence and awesome science ensued. Mutual suspicions turned into unexpected friendships and a utopian vision underpinned high efforts to secure a better future for our World.
Their vision transcended diplomatic and ideological lines.

This is the sun, seen from the American Solar Dynamics Observatory’s satellite.
The shooting actually took four whole days. Do you see these arches? 

They rise up to several tens of times the size of the Earth!

How did a failed coup d’état carried out by a handful of generals in July 1936 turn into one of the most brutal civil wars in history? Largely because of General Franco’s rallying who joined the insurgents with Hitler’s support.
For its part, the Republic realized that it was being abandoned by the Western democracies and could only count on the International Brigades - and on the limited, yet very interventionist, support of the USSR. 

Spring 1939. After 1,000 days of fighting, 400 000 deaths, the guns finally fell silent. But that didn’t mean peace was back in the country. Franco continued his crusade against the Republicans who had dared to oppose his coup. By 1940, over 240 000 prisoners were crammed in concentration camps and between 150 000 and 200 000 people were missing. From then on, state Catholicism governed every aspect of Spanish life. Women were reduced to the roles of wives and mothers, and the babies of Republican women were taken from them. The resistance fighters who had continued the armed struggle against Franco never managed to overthrow him. Franco outlived his allies, Hitler and Mussolini.

Warning: the standard of foreign language teaching in Great Britain is falling dramatically. Conversely, Luxembourg and Latvia are actively developing language learning programmes.

There are warning signals in Great Britain that foreign language teaching is falling dramatically. In Luxembourg, learning three languages is obligatory for all children as soon as they start school. Children learn their first foreign language at the age of 9.

Journalist Vladimir Vasak returns to Russia to find out what life is like inside a country at war. On a journey from Moscow to the Finnish border, he discovers a country that seems much less isolated internationally then many Westerners may think.

A look at the daily struggle to survive amid a war that seems without end.

Majestic and timeless, Mont Blanc is much more than just a summit. The cradle of mountaineering, it first saw science guide the first ascents, before becoming the Mecca of high-altitude sports. But Mont Blanc is first and foremost a living, natural heritage, concentrating all the biodiversity of the Alpine massifs. Today, global warming is jeopardizing the snows that were once thought to be eternal, and with them the harmony between man and mountain.

On October 24, 1648, in the Westphalian cities of Münster and Osnabrück, treaties were signed to end the Thirty Years' War. By establishing the principles of state sovereignty and religious freedom, these treaties laid the groundwork for a new international order (the birth of modern Europe). How does one get out of a war? How is peace built? How do the guns fall silent? And is the Westphalian system in crisis today?

In northern Mali, a forgotten war has flared up again. Since 2023, the Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) has been fighting Malian government forces and their allies in the Russian paramilitary group Wagner.

Flavie Villanueva, a catholic priest, worked tirelessly for years to get former president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte arrested. On 11 March 2025, Villanueva’ persistence was rewarded: Duterte was extradited to face charges at the ICC in the Hague for his presidency’s brutal and relentless “war on drugs” which claimed the lives of thousands.

In 221 BCE, the king of Qin (a small state on the western fringes of China) overthrew the Warring States and unified the Chinese empire. Tradition casts this first emperor as the founder of a political system portrayed as unchanging. But when did this date become significant? Since when has 221 BCE been considered Year Zero of imperial China?