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The award winning Greek film director, Theo Angelopoulos, died yesterday in an accident whilst working on his new film The Other Sea. He spoke to Jane Gabriel in 2009 about his film 'The Dust of Time', and in 1993 about his films 'The Suspended Step of the Stork' and 'The Travelling Players'

The "Agos" editor killed in Istanbul on 19 January 2007 speaks for life and truth. Plus: Hratch Tchilingirian on Dink's background, and Fatma Müge Göçek on memory and hope

A pioneering, charismatic composer who searched sincerely for the truth of art, life and politics died on 13 December 1981. Cornelius Cardew's integrity and creative restlessness ensure that he remains an inspiration, says Virginia Anderson

Plus: some of those who knew and worked with Cornelius Cardew pay tribute

The way the first world war is remembered closes as well as opens doors to the past (archive)

The documented history of the cosmopolitan Black Sea territory of Abkhazia was destroyed in war on 22 October 1992. Its Greek archivist Nikolai Ioannidi devoted the rest of his life to restoring and conserving what remains, reports Thomas de Waal.

(This article was first published on 20 October 2006)

The experience of poor farmers in Kenya is a lesson in the need for an anti-corruption revolution. (This article is republished in tribute to the pioneering environmentalist Wangari Maathai, who died on 25 September 2011)

The systematic killing of around 8,000 Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys in Srebrenica began on 11 July 1995. Ed Vulliamy (2005) and Peter Lippman (2010) revisit the scene, meet families and survivors, and report on the search both for human remains and for justice.

(These articles were first published on 4 July 2005 and 15 July 2010) (archive)

The posthumous inflation of Ronald Reagan’s political achievement is also a covert critique of George W. Bush’s foreign-policy failures. But there are also deep continuities between the two administrations, says Godfrey Hodgson. Plus: Takashi Inoguchi on the US and Japan (archive)

Cornelius Cardew (1936-81) was one of the most influential modernist composers of his generation. On what would have been his 75th birthday, some who knew and worked with Cardew reflect on a protean figure

On 17 April 1975, the entry of Khmer Rouge soldiers into Phnom Penh forced Cambodia’s people into a nightmare that would last for four years

Colonel Gaddafi's domain, now in deep internal crisis, is more protection-racket than modern state

The International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission calls for an impartial commission of inquiry to investigate ethnic unrest in Bangladesh’s restive Chittagong Hill Tracts region. Libya stands on the brink of civil war as the international community begins to respond. Iranian warships have docked at a Syrian port as Israel accuses Iran of making a ‘provocation’.

Libya's conviction of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for infecting child patients in Benghazi with the HIV virus was judicial scandal and medical disaster - and still offers crucial insight into the Libyan regime

A fiery border crisis fuses old tensions and modern politics (archive)

Burma's newly released leader is a beacon of her country's hunger to be free (archive)

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In a return to the putrid nightmare of post-Katrina New Orleans, Jim Gabour learns the hard way about what is needed to keep on the right side of life. First published September 5th 2005. Updated August 24th 2010.