Parleying with the Infinite: India in Beethoven’s Imagination
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Parleying with the Infinite: India in Beethoven’s Imagination

There are many surprising ways in which Western classical music, and more particularly the music of Beethoven, has relations with India. The name of Beethoven is also inextricably linked up with the name of someone who is inescapably present in nearly every conversation—Gandhi.

Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Cuba’s Contributions in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic

More than 30,000 Cuban health professionals are currently in 66 nations, helping them in the fight against the pandemic. Another 30,000 doctors who have graduated from Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine are also serving in countries around the world.

How Did a Fateful CIA Coup—Executed 55 Years Ago this February 24—Doom Much of Sub-Saharan Africa?
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How Did a Fateful CIA Coup—Executed 55 Years Ago this February 24—Doom Much of Sub-Saharan Africa?

55 years ago on this day, the fate of Africa was irrevocably altered when the CIA sponsored a coup d’état against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Prime Minister of Ghana and Pan-Africanist visionary who was voted as “Africa’s Man of the Millennium.”