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<p>Many countries in the Middle East do not allow civil marriage which means that mixed-faith couples cannot easily marry. But just 30 minutes’ flight from Lebanon and Israel lies Cyprus where foreigners can easily tie the knot.</p>

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Many countries in the Middle East do not allow civil marriage which means that mixed-faith couples cannot easily marry. Nearby Cyprus has become a centre for foreigners wanting to tie the knot.

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About 500,000 to 800,000 people in Germany are addicted to porn and many are no longer in control of their lives due to their sexual disorder. The problem is a taboo subject. But sex sells, especially on the internet: In Germany alone, online porn providers turn over an estimated 4.5 billion euros a year.

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The Taliban conquered Afghanistan eighteen months ago and established an uncompromising Emirate based on their particular interpretation of Sharia law. An alarming economic and social crisis is exacerbated by the ban on education and employment for women. The Tablian enforce their policies through coercion, intimidation, and the establishment of a parallel governance structure.

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For nearly 50 years Albania lived under perhaps Europe’s harshest communist dictatorship with omnipresent surveillance, imprisonments, and executions. Today the country has chosen to open up the archives of the feared state police, the Sigurmi. Are Albanians ready to face up to a difficult past?

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120 years ago, a capitalist Eldorado emerged in the USA, paving the way for today’s billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. How did the power of the super-rich consolidate, especially during the depression after 1929 or during Ronald Reagan's policy of deregulation and tax cuts in the 1980s?

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PJ Harvey plays a typically magnetic, no-nonsense performance to a packed audience at the Paris Olympia, bringing together some of her older hits with newer material from her tenth album: I Inside the Old Year Dying.

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Deborah Feldman found worldwide fame with her autobiography Unorthodox, adapted into a highly successful Netflix series. In this extensive interview, she talks about the central and vital role books have played in her life, on post-war writing dealing with the holocaust, and also contemporary events, notably the Israel-Hamas war.

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How has the life of European Union citizens changed since the Maastricht Treaty came into force thirty years ago, on 1 November 1993? Documentary filmmaker, David Holland, born the same year as Maastricht travels the length and breadth of the continent by rail to find out.

A Journey through the Continent

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A history of American capitalism. Episode 2: Appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1921, aluminium magnate Andrew Mellon developed the 'trickle-down' theory. But the millionaires' paradise collided with the economic crash of 1929, which plunged the USA into the Great Depression and mass unemployment. Could Roosevelt save America from dire economic straits?

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A history of American capitalism. The 1929 crash plunged America into the Great Depression and mass unemployment.

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The Orchestre de Paris invites pianist Yuja Wang for a special concert conducted by Klaus Mäkelä bringing together works by Debussy, Ravel and Bartók. 

With Yuja Wang

Colour and emotion from l'Orchestre de Paris playing classics by Ravel, Debussy and Bartók.

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In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and the republicans pushed through policies of deregulation and tax cuts whilst Silicon Valley became the new Eldorado for young companies such as Apple and Microsoft. As the internet grew, capital flowed into big tech making huge fortunes and monopolies. The poor and middle classes paid their taxes and the rich paid less.

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The UN wants to put an end to the HIV pandemic by 2030. In Europe, some countries are lagging behind. We speak to a doctor who was in the medical team that managed to cure a man of HIV. He tells us why finding a cure isn’t as simple as it might seem. We also look at the obstacles facing the fight, including a surge in cases linked to the rise of chemsex.  

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Four decades after HIV was discovered, the virus is still prevalent across the world. But prevention and treatment programmes are yielding results.

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Why is it that a comparatively rare disorder such as coeliac disease seems to have become widespread within a few years? With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible? An in-depth focus on gluten, gluten-free diets and the food industry.

With more and more people complaining about digestive problems after eating cereals, is gluten really responsible?

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Apple launched its streaming service in 2015, and to celebrate, the company made their customers an offer they couldn't refuse: three months free subscription. The problem: during these three months, the artists streamed will not receive a penny. But that was without reckoning for Taylor Swift, who published an open letter to the firm on her Tumblr detailing why refusing to pay artists for their work was unacceptable. Apple backtracked. 

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In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen imagined the story of an evil troll who wanted to drive the goodness out of the hearts of humans. To achieve this, he hangs a huge magic mirror in front of the moon. When it breaks, the people touched by its shards become insensitive to human kindness and see the worst in people.

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